Clinical Case 068: Surviving sepsis. Serial scans for super-sick sheila
My newly arrived UK RMO Dr Laura Castle and I managed a sick lady today and we used the bedside ultrasound to assist us in...
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...
Clinical Case 044: vesicles down under
Todays case is bread and butter GP / Paeds. 13/12 old boy presents with a 2 day history of mild fever, irritable and loose stools....
Clinical Case 042: Cough with a significant negative
Todays case is not too tricky. The context is a recent epidemic of bronchiolitis in the Kimberley region. So lots of coughing, sick babies all...
Who hears a whoop?
Whooping cough is a kids disease? That is the public perception and one docs might believe as well. We have had an epidemic of B....