Waiting Room Neurology • UCEM

LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Last update: May 9, 2017 @ 9:59 am The Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine (UCEM) is devoted to keeping up with the latest evidence, techniques and iOS updates to ensure that waiting room medicine is at the forefront of critical care applied within the adverse environments of war zones, natural disasters and public hospitals. In an effort to combat that most pertinacious of symptoms ‘the chronic headache‘ – UCEM have scoured all the available information (i.e. Googled open access resources…), performed a case study (n=1) and present a solution – the intra-Waiting Room Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block (iWR-SPGB). The utility of this new technique was trialled in Dystopian Department X. Pivotal Observational Study (n=1) Mrs MS is a 54 year old lady whom has suffered for many years with intractable headaches. Mrs MS is commonly under the care of renowned neurologist and holiday travel writer Dr Charcot-Marie (who interestingly is the progeny of two famous neurologists – the wedding I am told was a veritable who’s who of clinical neuroscience, except for Dr Wernicke who was not invited due to the open bar and well you know…). The patient Mrs MS was unable to see her usual neurologist (as he was having his Tooth extracted) and attended the Dystopian Department X Waiting Room (DDX-WR) with ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Neurology Utopian Medicine chronic headache iWR SPGB sphenopalatine ganglion block UCEM Waiting Room Medicine Source Type: blogs