Clinical Case 007: DKA update
This 35 yo man had a 20 year history of well controlled type 1 DM, on tds Novorapid + nocte Lantus. Never had an episode...
Medical Myth 002: Post-LP headache prevention
Case 006 – about meningoencephalitis raised a few queries amongst my nursing colleagues. Specifically – how to prevent post-LP headaches. So I thought I would...
Case 006: The Big Wet = Big headache
I was called in last week to manage this case and I found a few key decision points that required me to think a little...
Cold is the new hot topic in Resus
Here is an interesting statistic – the “Number Needed to Treat” for aspirin in acute STEMI is actually about 42, for thrombolysis in STEMI it...
Preoxygenation Pearls
This post might become a regular under the banner “What I learned from Scott Weingart this week!” Scott runs the EMCrit blog and if you...