Tropical Trouble: Straight from the Crocodile’s mouth
Working in the tropics, we see a lot of unique presentations related to our colourful and often unfriendly fauna. Last year we had a run on...
Clinical Case 024: Livin’ the ketamine dream
If you are new to Broome Docs, then you might have missed my mild obsession with Acute Psychiatric Sedation. (GO back and read the posts...
Fits, faints, funny turns and fakers. Prolactin to the rescue….NOT
My colleague (Dr Dave) asked me today about the use of a serum prolactin level to diagnose a seizure in a patient presenting with “syncope...
Clinical Case 021: Pregnant and puking
Had an interesting case this week. 25 yo G3P2 presented after about 6 weeks amenorrhea with typical sxs of early pregnancy – breast tenderness, nausea...
Clinical Case 020: the ABC of APO
53 yo man with a history of hypertensive cardiomyopathy presents to ED at midnight with severe dyspnoea. No chest pain, no oedema, no fever, cough...