Mental Health Assessment in the ED by Dr Andrew Webster
Assessing the mental health patient in ED First of all, forget about ‘medical clearance’ of mental health patients – this terminology misses the point of...
5 Quick Tox Cases – Dr Bryan Hayes gives the answers
Last week I put up a series of 5 quick tox cases for you all to ponder. In case you missed it – it is...
5 Quick Tox Cases
Well I am just back from Sydney – SMACC2013. It was heaps of fun, and I got to meet a lot of my FOAMy heroes,...
Broome Docs Podcast 010: Suicide Assessment with Dr Rob Orman
Back in July I wrote a bit of a long rant titled: “On Evidence, Education, Errors, Ego and Expert Intuition” in which I tried to outline...
Antipsychotics, ECGs, QTcs and Catastrophes
In 2001 the FDA in the USA put a “black box” warning on droperidol after a series of case reports linking it with torsades de...