Medical Myths: Fever = blood cultures now!
When I was an intern in a big old hospital one of the tasks we did was taking blood cultures off of patients who spiked...
Case 044: the answer
Ok, 24 hours in and we have a winner. The most comprehensive and correct / first in (20 minutes) answer was from Egerton Yorrick Davis...
C-spine Trauma: in a town with no CT
I worked for 4 years in a town with no CT (but plenty of beer) – and it is fair to say that the protocols...
RSI: made stupidly simple
The Rapid Sequence Intubation is one of those “gotta have” skills for clinicians who work in frontline medicine. Fair to say there are a lot...
Paracentesis: are you stabbing in the dark?
Had a few problematic ascitic taps recently in our place – so I thought I would have a look at the evidence around paracentesis, what is...