Headache headaches! A podcast from the PHARM

SAH CT

Hi all I got involved in a twitter debate about the work up of headaches in ED, why is it that GP “miss” serious intracranial pathology from time to time and what is the current ‘best practice’ when it comes to the acute headache. There have been some really big, game-changing papers out in the [...]

Ultrasound tip: multi-beam ON / OFF

Ghost beam

G’day, here’s a quick tip from one serious ultrasound enthusiast to you all. I have learned this by hard trial and error, it is one of those simple tricks which I probably should have learned early on in my US training, but missed.  Of course, I had a fool for a teacher! So I am [...]

Clinical Case 079: Is it Pyloric stenosis?

olive

Picking the baby with pyloric stenosis from all the refluxing, positing and normal kids can be tricky.  In GP land this is a really common presentation: a new mum with a kid who “spews” after feeding.  We know that the vast majority of these kids will have no pathology, but you really don’t want to [...]

2-minute Ultrasound for pneumothorax

1mus_edited-1

You might be aware that the boys over at Ultrasound Podcast have developed an app called “1-Minute US”. It is pretty cool, but lets face it – 1 minute, it’s a bit tacky.  I know that Broome docs readers are really much more sophisticated than that, so I have produced a whole new concept : [...]

BroomeDocs Podcast 001: C-spine trauma sans CT?

burst fract

This is it! The first BroomeDocs podcast. It is a new feature to the Broome Docs site and I thought I would go back and look at an old topic for my first podcast. C-spine trauma management in a small town is an area that really illustrates the type of critical decision-making rural docs are [...]