This is a nifty little diagnosis and something that you’ll see with some regularity. In the context of sudden unexplained cardiac arrest with ROSC but no neurological response we often get a CT of the head looking for some intracranial … Read More »
A chap with a 6 month old ileal conduit for urinary diversion rocks up to your ED feeling more than a little unwell. A VBG done at triage is like this: What’s the deal? The reference Tanrikut C, McDougal WS. … Read More »
File this under “uncommon but important”. Like a lot of things in Emergency Medicine really… The main paper for this is linked in the references below [peekaboo_link name=”Epidemiology”]Epidemiology[/peekaboo_link] [peekaboo_content name=”Epidemiology”] it’s rare, though to be honest we don’t know how … Read More »
I don’t see that many of these procedures coming back to our ED. A lot are done privately and even overseas. The overseas ones can be particularly challenging as the paperwork is often not in English and often the patient … Read More »
As always, this is from the ever expanding google doc on bits and bobs I read and learn from and transfer here for all our learning pleasure. Wei YB, Yang JR, Yin Z, Guo Q, Liang BL, Zhou KQ. Genitourinary … Read More »