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Category Archives: board review

Non inferiority trials

30 Nov

There’s been a recent rash of ‘non inferiority’ trials in the medical literature. The new oral anticoagulants are a great example. It’s hard to blame investigators. Proving that Drug B is better than Dug A is a very difficult thing … Read More »

board review, critical appraisal CFN, critical appraisal, FCEM, frcem, non inferiority 1 Comment

Hypoxia in Pulmonary Embolus

24 Sep

Hypoxia is almost ubiquitous in PE (In the comments Liam suggests otherwise. I honestly can’t find a clear answer. in PEITHO, a trial of submassive PE, 85% were receiving oxygen suggesting hypoxia. Certainly in the tiny PEs, lots of people don’t … Read More »

board review, critical appraisal, thinking about medicine hypoxia, PE 7 Comments

Take home points from an HMIMMS course

23 Jan

(Updated August 2017 with some added bits for the FRCEM revision) Before christmas I finally got another one of the alphabet courses under my belt – The Hospital Major Incident Medical Management & Support course. Or HMIMMS for short. To be … Read More »

board review, tasty morsels HMIMMS, major incident 2 Comments

Medical Complications of Pregnancy

22 Nov

This is a talk I gave recently for our registrar teaching morning. Not the sexiest presentation (forgive the bullets) but hopefully will give you the basic, textbook level info a al foamcast style   Direct Download [60mb] References: NICE Guidelines … Read More »

board review, lecture emergency medicine, FCEM, FOAMed, pregnancy 2 Comments

Tasty morsels of EM 038 – Alcoholic Ketoacidosis

29 Apr

These little notes have become my way of documenting my text book reading. Mainly focused on the stuff I don’t already know about or don’t see very often. Alcoholics become dependant on alcohol for caloric supply The body can only … Read More »

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