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This is a tough one – a clinical scenario that is unfortunately a bit too common in my part of the world. I want to know how you would go about balancing the fluids in this case, what will you use to measure the adequacy of the resuscitation / fluid administration. It is a tight [...]
Today I “attended” the first Google Hangout session of the GET FOAMed Rural masterclass. This is a new collaboration between Drs Minh & Shelly le Cong, Tim Leeuwenberg, Michelle Johnson and myself. We are all doctors with a passion for improving the standard or rural health, with a focus on the acute care. The catch [...]
My newly arrived UK RMO Dr Laura Castle and I managed a sick lady today and we used the bedside ultrasound to assist us in 5 modalities. Now even I struggle to use US that much, but this case required a lot of thinking and it happened on a slow Sunday – so not much [...]
When I was an intern in a big old hospital one of the tasks we did was taking blood cultures off of patients who spiked fevers on the wards. In fact thinking back on it, I think I was taking cultures to appease the senior ward nurses and not really stopping to think about the [...]
This week a classic Australian remote area case. There is so much to discuss on this case! But I have isolated a few key points to put under the microscope, and get your input / expertise. 47 yo. Aboriginal woman has returned to the ED complaining of painless purulent lesions on her left foot. She [...]
