Life in the Fast Lane

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Oliver Flower EVACUATE: ICH Management Amal Abou-Hamden discusses intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), and the history of management of surgical management of ICH including the STICH1, STICH2 and EVACUATE trial

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Science Based Medicine

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A man who experienced the pandemic entirely from his laptop, explains what he would have done had he actually done anything. The post Science Based Satire: What I Would Have Done first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Board Bombs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We're talking those impossible-to-remember marine exposures that will always be a thorn in your side on the test. Unless you work on the coast (or Australia), you will never see these. Want to experience the greatest in board studying? Check out our interactive question bank podcast- the FIRST of its kind here. Cite this podcast as: Briggs, Blake; Husain, Iltifat. 211.

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Pediatric Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patient Presentation A full-term newborn male was admitted to the newborn nursery after an uncomplicated vaginal birth and uneventful pregnancy. A right-sided suprarenal mass had been identified on routine ultrasound during the third trimester that was thought to likely be an adrenal hemorrhage. The family history was negative for congenital or genetic problems or cancer.

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EMergucate

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A police recruit doing a 20 km pack hike. Collapsed. GCS on arrival was 7. His temperature was 39.2 on arrival. His venous blood gases showed the following: PH = 7.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

There is an old George Carlin joke: on the freeway, everyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster is a maniac. I think many of us feel the same about masking. Anyone who wears it longer than you is an idiot, and anyone who took it off sooner is a maniac. At the airport in SF, masks are nearly completely gone. SF of course is the last bastion of masking, as masking correlates with more democratic voters and not public health principles.

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CDC Wellness 81

EMergucate

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Answers: PH = 7.391, that is within the normal range, slightly to the acidic side. pCO2 = 57 mmHg, that is high. So we have respiratory acidosis.

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