Overview Good teaching is inspiring and challenging. As the learner you feel a sense of satisfaction from great education. The inspiring teacher leaves the learner hungry to know more about the subject matter and change for the better. From the medical educators’s perspective, the goal is to select a teaching tool that will suitably inspire, … More Advocacy and Enquiry In a Nutshell
Introduction There has been a bit of discussion where we work about the ECG questions on the recent Australasian College of Emergency Medicine Fellowship Exam. While we initially only had a fleeting look at the ECG questions whilst on the way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert (i.e. setting a clear priority for study) the initial … More ECG Conundrums featuring Ken Grauer
Download Printable PDF A Clinical Scenario A 70-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with an episode of collapse at the supermarket. A bystander calls an ambulance and by the arrival of paramedics a few mins later the patient is lucid and responsive. She is found to be Hypotensive (91/50), Febrile (38.9 degrees), Tachycardic … More Show Me The Albumin
SYNCOPE PDF HANDOUT – CLICK HERE Syncope in the Emergency Department (ED) Introduction Syncope is common accounting for about 1 in 50 of Emergency Department (ED) presentations. It is recurrent in 30% of patients and is characterised by a ‘Brief loss of consciousness that resolves without intervention’. Syncope is derived from Greek “syn” – with and … More Collapse and Syncope
PRINTABLE HANDOUT PDF DOWNLOAD Automated Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Mechanical CPR Good quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may improve cardiac and neurologic outcomes following cardiac arrest and this can theoretically be facilitated by various Mechanical CPR Devices that we will look at in this discussion. Early CPR has been associated with increased survival and is therefore very important … More Push my Buttons – Mechanical CPR
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