the case.
46 year old male is bought into your resuscitation bay by local ambulance following a three metre fall from a work platform onto a horizontal metal railing below.
bubble of trouble…
the case.
76 year old male presents to your Emergency Department via ambulance with right hip pain and a fever of 38.1*C.
don’t jump the gun…
the case.
an elderly male is bought to ED following a high-speed motor vehicle accident having driven his car into a tree at ~100 km/h. He is complaining of severe chest pain & trouble breathing. [Read more…]
going the wrong way…
the case.
56 year old male presents to ED with dyspnoea, cough and small-volume haemoptysis. [Read more…]
FALLS protocol…
Below is the main content discussed at an ultrasound workshop I ran this week at the Sydney HEMS Clinical Governance Day.
part man, part machine…
the case.
48 year old male is bought to the Emergency Department via ambulance following a syncopal episode. They are unable to obtain a blood pressure & describe ‘some sort of device coming out of his chest’ !! [Read more…]