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Shock Dose When Defibrillating Children
Cardiac arrest in children is certainly less frequent than in adults. However most paediatric in-hospital cardiac arrests do...
Am I ready to sit the ACEM Fellowship Exam?
This is for those Emergency Medicine registrars about to sit the ACEM Written Fellowship Exam. It's 4 weeks...
Bell’s Palsy
What is Bell's Palsy? It is an ipsilateral Cranial Nerve VII (lower motor neurone) palsy. There is usually a...
Facial Nerve Palsy examination
When examining a patient with a facial nerve palsy and we wish to determine if the lesion is...
Trigeminal Neuralgia
An excellent review article on Trigeminal Neuralgia, has just come out in the NEJM(1). Here is a quick...
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
A 50 male patient is brought to your emergency department by ambulance post cardiac arrest. He has an...
Is SVT an ischaemic arrhythmia?
We often see patients presenting with SVT. They often have ST changes, so we have to ask; Is...
Compartment Syndrome
Compartment Syndrome, is usually straightforward to pick up. How do we measure Compartment pressures? Below is a MacGyver...