Should Normal saline be the norm?
Here is my observation of clinical practice in most places I have worked in Australia. The doctors use normal (0.9%) saline as a default fluid...
Clinical Case 058: Syncope, again and again
30 year old man presented to the ED in an ambulance with his 3rd episode of syncope in the last few months. The story this...
A Tale of Two Atria: AF management update.
One of my jobs at the Uni is to corral medical students into producing “grand rounds” presentations. Usually I try and pick a topic that...
Clinical Case 057: big PE, now what?
This is a pulmonary embolism case – but I promise – not another diagnostic case. That territory has been well covered by all the big...
Clinical Case 053: thoracic tortuosity
OK. This is just plain out there. We see some unusual stuff in the remote areas – things you only read about in the books!...