From this lovely review and update paper in Lancet Resp Med. Found this via Josef Liebman’s EMU. One of the slightly more obscure FOAMed resources but he always seems to pluck out some papers i’d never find on my own. … Read More »
This can definitely be filed under the rare and obscure portion of EM. But i’ve seen it twice in 12 years, and was baffled both times so there you go… known as hyatid disease (definitely easier to spell) or … Read More »
There was an article in the Abstracts recently by Djukic in 2015 that looked at how often you can find a potentially reversible cause of dementia. Billy Mallon wrote a nice essay on it. We reviewed the paper over on the … Read More »
Stimulated by a post over at Echo Praxis and a corrective tweet from Karim Brohi This is a blunt traumatic aortic injury leading to pseudoaneurysm. It's NOT a dissection. https://t.co/FbMZ3tYkMI — Karim Brohi (@karimbrohi) December 18, 2015 I think I … Read More »
Before you all die of boredom it turns out that sodium is really important. it’s something we also seem to get very confused by. The wonderful Josh Farkas had a post on low Na (mainly about using Bicarb as treatment) with … Read More »