I know – it is supposed to be a Saturday night palsy, but as you know patients rarely bother to read the textbook before injuring themselves or falling victim to circumstance. I was working on a Monday recently, which is weird as I try to avoid Mondays. A 23 year old woman presented to ED with […]
Stump the Chumps International on IM Reasoning
April 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment
I am a big fan of the IM Reasoning podcast by Art and Nick from Auckland. So I got in touch with the fellows and offered a case for their excellent ” Stump the Chumps” series It is all about diagnostic reasoning- allowing the listener to hear the inner workings of the mind s […]
Clinical Case 140: Rapid POCUS Diagnosis
April 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment
A quick case from the Broome vault… This case really shows how we can use bedside POCUS to make really important diagnoses in rapid time. Sometimes the fact that “traditional tests” are not available forces me to use POCUS as a “Substitute” which works out really well! If you are a POCUS junky or want […]
Lessons Hard Learned: Dr Resa Lewiss
March 14, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Welcome back. A brand new Lesson Hard Learned episode from one of my favourite POCUS pals. Dr Resa Lewiss is a Colorado-based ED Physician and international teacher of POCUS. Specifically she has done a lot of work in the developing world to bring the power of POCUS to the coal face of care in some […]
January 2017 First10EM Journal Club
January 31, 2017 By 2 Comments
Greetings fellow EBM nerds of a feather! Its the the end of the month already which means that it’s time to review all the interesting papers that Justin has found on his night table in his cold, Toronto apartment. This month is we do are covering othopaedics, zipper injuries, anxious chest pain patients and a whole […]
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