Smoke without fire
30 Oct
It’s 2am, you’re just catching up on the waiting room an things are beginning to settle when one of the many bat phones in the department rings to alert you to the imminent arrival of a 75 year old man … Read More »
Category Archives: board review
Some notes on renal transplants
15 Jun
I’m yet to work in a place that sees lots of renal transplant patients, hence the set of notes! If you have any thoughts or tips please let me know in the comments. THE TRANSPLANT commonest transplant anastamosed to common … Read More »
Raised ICP and Intracranial shunts – some notes
30 Apr
From the wonderful Roberts & Hedges Raised ICP normally ICP can rise to 80-100mmHg just when coughing/straining being intracranial hypertension has a huge list of associated conditions so just cause you’ve got headache, normal CT and a raised pressure on … Read More »
1st trimester bleeding
30 Mar
obs & gynae stuff is something I rarely have to deal with. Where I worked they typically got shunted to the O&G folk so I’ve never felt I know what I’m doing. hence the rather basic notes 20% have bleeding; … Read More »
Organophosphate poisoning
20 Mar
Here’s some notes taken mainly from this paper (can’t remember who linked to it… sorry): Eddleston M, Buckley NA, Eyer P, Dawson AH. Management of acute organophosphorus pesticide poisoning. Lancet. 2008 Feb. 16;371(9612):597–607. PMC2493390 And also from the excellent Toxicology Handbook: … Read More »