When and How to Perform a Lateral Canthotomy

by Dr Peter Kas

When and How to Perform a Lateral Canthotomy

A 35 yo woman presents to your rural emer...

Case 1: Is that a Spider in her ear?

I had a 68 yo patient recently who was being admitted. Prior to going to the ward, the nurse approached me with news that the patient's blood pressure...

Are Kids just small adults? The questions that creates outrage and debate.

How do we approach the child with a potential cervical spine in jury? This...

Hypertensive emergencies are defined as sudden and prolonged increases in the arterial blood pressure, with associated organ damage. The degree of ...

Discussion with Dr Wilkin-Marshall

Cervical spine injuries in children are uncommon and radiation risk from CT scans can be significant. We don’t ...

Dr Andrew Perry takes us through fluid choices.

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Dr Steve Pincus discusses pressure-contolled ventilation.

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I recently had the pleasure of speaking to Dr Ben McKenzie, Emergency Physician and researcher into anaphylaxis. Ben has developed the AMAX 4 algor...

A patient is brought to the emergency department with a complaint of central pressing chest pain. The patient's ecg is shown below. Is this QRS frag...

 When you're suspicious of entrapment in an orbital floor blowout fracture following trauma, you ask your patients to look up, to check for diplopia. ...

 The ambulance phone rings. They are 5 minutes away with a 32 yo patient with history of asthma who has had two hours of shortness of breath and wheez...