Category: Internal Medicine

Paracetamol: mostly harmless?

This post was inspired by Colin Parker (the original C. Parker) and the team at EMPEM.org who did a discussion on the recent paper released...

Ultrasound for pneumonia – sounds crazy?

You may have noticed my recent obsession with all things respiratory.  Seeing and personally experiencing a lot of LRTIs recently.  A few weeks back Cliff...

Clinical Case 037: finding fevers’ focus

Another case for Sepsis week. 67 yo. male traveller.  Recently been on vacation in Scotland, then spent a week in Singapore, flew into Perth (WA)...

Sepsis: the first “Golden” hour

Last post we looked at trying to sort the sick patients from the rest in ED – the goal is to identify them early.  Great...

Sepsis: Can we pick who’s sick?

I have been going on about sepsis for a while now around the hallways.  So – what is all this talk about?  I think we need to...