Drs Adam O’Brien and Claire Lissaman are the authors of a new study looking at the diagnostic characteristics of lung US for Paediatric pneumonia. The study was entitled: Lissaman et al Prospective observational study of point-of-care ultrasound for diagnosing pneumonia in Archives of Diseases in Childhood July 2018 [full text PDF] In this interview we talk about the study and how […]
Probing Paediatric Pneumonia with Dr O’Brien and Lissaman
Posted on March 13, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Time to Pause, Reflect & Pay It Forward
Posted on March 12, 2017 · 1 Comment
Gday So it has been a month since my last post, which I think is a Broomedocs record! I decided to take a litle time to pause and reflect, do a bit of reading and work on a few of my other projects. Don’t worry – all the clinical stuff will return soon. Justin and […]
Clinical Case 133: POCUS Perils [and the Debiasing Dance]
Posted on August 23, 2016 · 2 Comments
I am a mad point-of-care ultrasound [POCUS] fan. I scan pretty much every patient that I can. I do this to sharpen my diagnostic skills, practice and to explore new utilities of the humble ultrasound. However, as my POCUS practice has matured and I have made countless errors; I am learning very slowly to do […]
Pneumonia Ultrasound Diagnostic Strategy
Posted on March 30, 2016 · 3 Comments
In June I will be travelling to the Emerald Isle to attend and learn at the SMACC Conference in Dublin. One of my jobs whilst I am there is to help out on the SMACC Mini workshop – I will be talking about using lung US to diagnose paediatric pneumonia. Clearly, I am a self-confessed […]
Clinical Case 103: Midnight MacGyver Medicine
Posted on June 9, 2014 · 13 Comments
This is an exercise in medical minimalism. I am going to throw you a case and a set of resources – you need to say how you would manage it. I am going to release my strategy in a few days. So here we go – here is the case… Firstly, a little bit of […]
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