Free Professional Development eLearning module opportunities Last year the HDC launched a series of online learning modules to improve providers’ knowledge and understanding of people’s health and disability rights. These three free modules cover how the Code of Rights improves health and disability services, what you need to know about informed consent, and complaints management…
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Bell’s palsy can be diagnosed clinically, but it is important to exclude other differentials.
Always look for Kanavel’s sign and refer if present.
Why should we look at the tongue in urgent care? And why does it sometimes stick out when we are thinking?
A tibial stress fracture in a golfer. Unusual, given that they are often associated with runners, but it does highlight how listening to your patient when they say something is wrong is important.
Today we chat with Dr David Sorrell about how he bends the needle to aid corneal foreign body removal.
A Latissimus Dorsi tear is a rare sporting injury but one we should be aware of in urgent care.
Will we need urgent care clinicians in an AI health system?
Author: Dr Gareth Norton
Date: August 2022
Abstract:
Croup, or laryngotracheobronchitis, is an extremely common presentation of respiratory
disease in the paediatric population. The mainstay of treatment is oral corticosteroids and in moderate/severe cases nebulised adrenaline. Concerns exist around the possibility of a rebound effect where their are increased symptoms when the effect of a drug has passed. If a drug produces a rebound effect, the condition it was used to treat may return with an
increased severity. Or is there no rebound effect and the return of symptoms, even at an
increased severity is due to the natural course and progression of the treated condition?