Acute severe asthma: the evidence 2011
All of these recent posts and commentary on severe COPD has lead to a few discussions about the management of the Acute Severe Asthmatic around...
Undiagnose, Unprescribe, Unharm – part I
This is hopefully the first post in a series of posts looking at the concept of “undiagnosing” patients. This might sound a bit daft, but...
Clinical Case 19: If it barks like a seal, is it a seal?
Winter in any paediatric ED means – flu season, bronchs, croups, URTI etc etc. It can be tough to pick the true sick kid out...
Kid’s coconuts and CTs
Blunt head injury in kids is one of the commonest presentations that we see in ED. In my experience, the rate of serious brain injury...
To Breech, or not to Breech. That is sometimes the question…
This story is stolen from my big Dutch mate: It is 6 AM, you get a call from the labour ward from the night midwife. ...