Asthma is a common presentation to Urgent Care. How do the new adolescent and adult guidelines for NZ affect our management in Urgent Care? We speak with one of the guideline authors, Dr James Fingleton.
Conservative management of spontaneous pneumothorax. We talked about this in April with first10em. Now a review by the sceptics. This is a 25 minute podcast talking about all the ins and outs of this. Conservative management without chest tube MAY be appropriate but only if close follow up can be arranged. You may want to consider it but all the careful follow up steps must be followed.
This podcast was published 2 weeks ago for is Māori language and NZ Sign Language weeks. An improved knowledge of two of New Zealand’s official languages will improve our ability to deliver health care to our patients.
Have you come across the Os Styloideum before?
The Board of Censors (BoC) has re-evaluated how we offer the exam this year, considering the various responses to the pandemic. We have decided to run the written exam in multiple locations, and continue to plan to run the OSCE in Auckland.
We have been working on designing a new recertification programme to meet the new MCNZ requirements. We want to provide our members with a look at the preliminary stages of where our plans are heading. This webinar will present a video outlining the proposed recertification programme and some of the ideas and philosophies behind it. …
Given current restrictions and considerations for the health sector due to COVID19, the 2020 Trainee Forum a decision has been made to defer until early 2021.
We have two requests – the first is for you to send in questions about the clinical director role, and the second is to complete a short survey for medical directors. Ask a question and win a prize at the Virtual Urgent Care Bootcamp courtesy of DJO One of our Virtual Bootcamp sessions is looking…
For those enthusiasts who have POCUS or want POCUS here is a nice relaxing video to make you more comfortable with knobs.
Heard of the pink lady? Is it useful? Firstly you only need an antacid. Secondly, it should never be used to diagnose chest pain. It does not differentiate cardiac from epigastric related pain.