Edinburgh – A Medical Mystery Tour
The historic streets of Edinburgh are layered with hundreds of years of medical history. During a modern day global pandemic, a look back at the past can inform the present.
Finger Tips – Tendons and Ligaments
Pre-septal vs orbital cellulitis. One of those nightmarish things you don’t want to get wrong. This is from our friendly paeds guy. Some really useful safety netting advice. If it’s worse go to the hospital. Also what to look for. Applies just as well to adults. Have you ever tested the colour vision?
Out of hospital STEMI pathway – with Aaron Turner
New Zealand has a national out of hospital STEMI pathway. Aaron Turner, a St John Intensive Care Paramedic in Christchurch, talks us through the pathways and what Urgent Care needs to know about it.
Periorbital cellulitis in children
Pre-septal vs orbital cellulitis. One of those nightmarish things you don’t want to get wrong. This is from our friendly paeds guy. Some really useful safety netting advice. If it’s worse go to the hospital. Also what to look for. Applies just as well to adults. Have you ever tested the colour vision?
Fracture Fridays: The worst case of Osgood-Schlatter ever (Re-post)
Picture of the week. When do you need to do a knee x-ray? have you ever seen this? I recall a patient I saw with a chronic history of O-S and then followed by juvenile Rh resulting in steroids and then this type of fracture.
Urgent Bite 68 – Something to help the pain of an acute otitis media – with Dr David Sorrell
Dr Avijit Barai talks us through a 9 step systematic approach to looking at ECGs.
ECG analysis – with Dr Avijit Barai
Dr Avijit Barai talks us through a 9 step systematic approach to looking at ECGs.
Urgent Bite 67 – Thinking about how we communicate information
Today we look at what the RNZCUC has planned for the rest of 2020.
Just chatting about some College news
Today we look at what the RNZCUC has planned for the rest of 2020.
Nasal foreign body removal using a magnetic device
Another nasal foreign body post. You may remember the ENT one. You don’t have to buy this tool. You can attach your magnet to the base of an alligator forceps and use that. Then it’s already sterile.