Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 234
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 234.
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Question 1:
What is Stabler sign?
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Stabler sign: Non-...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 12, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five appendicitis botulism cullen echinococcus granulosus ectopic pregnancy Francois Henri Hallopeau hair hydatid Kenya Rovsing's Selman Waksman Stabler's sign Trichotillomania trichotillomaniac water lily si Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 233
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 233.
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Question 1:
Who popularised museli?
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Dr Maximilian Birc...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 6, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Bircher Bircher Museli Clare Stanton Ekbom syndrome II Ernest W Goodpasture Essex Lopresti Goodpastures disease hugo flecker irukandji irukandji syndrome jack barnes John Range Maximilian Bircher-Benner Pa Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 005 RUQ Pain and Jaundice
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Guest Post: Dr Branden Skarpiak – Global Health Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine. UT Health San Antonio
A 35 year old male presents to your emergency room for right upper quadrant pain that has gotten worse over the last 2-3 days. He also describes associated nausea, vomiting, and fevers. He denies other abdominal pain, or change in his bowel or bladder habits. His wife notes that he has started to “look more yellow” recent...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 19, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine amebic amoeba amoebiasis amoebic dysentery amoebic liver abscess bloody diarrhoea e.dispar e.histolytica entamoeba histolytica Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 230
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 230.
Question 1:
Braille refined ‘night writing’ so it could effectively be used in the blind population. Who originally commissioned ‘night writing’ for the military?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 15, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five beard bowel obstruction Braille Charles Barbier Faget's sign Hans Steininger Napoleon orthodontic wire Sutton's law Sutton's slip Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 223
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 223.
Question 1
Puskar Nepal set a Guinness World record for doing what 134 times in 60 seconds?
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Kicking himself in the forehead
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 26, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five bungee jumping exophthalmos Graves disease Graves orbitopathy haemorrhoids kicking menstruation Puskar Nepal retinal detachment retinal haemorrhage St Fiacre Stellwag's sign subconjunctival haemorrhage Wal Source Type: blogs
An Example of the Need for Research and Development Investment in Cryonics
Cryonics is a field that requires commercial success of some form for further expansion, such as in the reversible vitrification of organs, not least because either that or wealthier patrons than presently exist will be needed as a source of significant funding to improve current methodologies of preservation. The recent report from Alcor noted here illustrates the well-understood need for this sort of technical improvement. Alcor presents comparatively unfiltered reports on cryopreservations, where patients agree to it, and the staff and patients should be commended for this. Such reports are important to the quality of a...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 17, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The AAJT: Simplicity in the Face of Adversity
There is a saying, "Complexity in the face of adversity breeds chaos." I'm not sure where this maxim originated, but it is definitely true in resuscitation settings. That's the crux of this post: Is the abdominal tourniquet simplicity in the face of adversity compared with the resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA)?We all know how futile it feels to do CPR on a traumatic cardiac arrest patient with suspected massive blood loss. Just what are we pumping, and if there is any remaining intravascular blood, where are we pumping it?I will never forget the pain of trying to resuscit...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Incidentally detected Carotid Body Tumour : Case Report
Female, 60 years old, with headache and recurrent left tinnitus. Has been to several ENT clinics. Stayed unexplained for 5 Yrs. MRI brain incidentally detected the finding described below.Case submitted by Dr. A. Altamimi, MD, DMRD, FRCR, Consultant RadiologistMRI Brain revealed : special note is the presence of an incidentaloma in the form of a lobulated oval mass (about 2.5 x 3 x 4.5 cm) embedded in the left upper neck at the level of the carotid bifurcation (splaying the ICA and ECA carotid arteries) with some localized mass effect. It is generally iso-to-hypointense to muscle on T1, ...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - November 19, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 214
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 214.
Question 1
Who first described the phenomenon of malignant hyperthermia?
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Michael Denborough
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 17, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five apocrine miliaria Charles Maitland fox sign george henry fox john addison fordyce jones fracture malignant hyperthermia michael denborough Newgate pimp Robert Jones smallpox william osler Source Type: blogs
Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis: Case Report
Discussion by Dr MGK Murthy, Dr GA Prasad Cavernous sinus is extradural venous plexus surrounded by a dural fold in the middle cranial fossa containing internal carotid artery with its periarterial sympathetic plexus, abducens nerve lateral to the internal carotid artery, but medial to the oculomotor and trochlear nerves and the ophthalmic and maxillary divisions of the trigeminal nerve, which run superior to inferior within the lateral dural border of the cavernous sinus. Thrombosis of the cavernous sinus is usually caused by bacterial or fungal invasion comp...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - November 14, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Dengue hemorrhagic encephalitis: MRI
Discussion by Dr MGK Murthy, Dr GA PrasadDengue virus is a single-stranded RNA virus of the Flavivirus genus classified into four serotypes. Neurological manifestations, commonly seen with serotypes 2 and 3.Neurological manifestation in dengue hemorrhagic fever usually results from multisystem dysfunction secondary to liver failure, cerebral hypoperfusion, electrolyte imbalance, shock, cerebral edema, and hemorrhage related to vascular leak. Presentation as viral encephalitis is rare as the virus is non-neurotrophic.Patients can present with - stroke, mononeuropathies, polyneuropathies, Guillain-Ba...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - November 13, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 13th 2017
In conclusion, we have developed an effective PILs strategy to deliver the AUF1 plasmid to a specific target, and this system may be useful for the development of new anti-aging drugs.
Considering the Evidence for Vascular Amyloidosis as a Cause of Aging
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The balance of evidence for the aging of the cardiovascular system suggests the following view. It starts off in the blood vessels, with the accumulation of senescent cells and cross-links. Cross-links directly stiffen these tissues, while...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 12, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Considering the Evidence for Vascular Amyloidosis as a Cause of Aging
The balance of evidence for the aging of the cardiovascular system suggests the following view. It starts off in the blood vessels, with the accumulation of senescent cells and cross-links. Cross-links directly stiffen these tissues, while senescent cells produce inflammation and changes in cell behavior that promote calcification - again leading to stiffness. These and other processes also disrupt the delicate balance of cell signaling responsible for blood vessel constriction and relaxation. All of this combines to degrade the feedback system controlling pressure in the cardiovascular system, and blood pressure rises as ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 6, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 304
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Welcome to the 304th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
The Intensive Care Network has uploaded talks from the latest CICM ASM. Start with this one f...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 29, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
