Blackwater fever
This is the popular name for the haemolytic anaemia associated with severe malaria.
Author Archives: Ioana Vlad
The daily educational pearl – Causes of miosis
Causes of miosis
Toxins – opiates, organophosphates / nerve gas, clonidine, olanzapine
Pontine haemorrhage or space occupying lesions
Horner’s syndrome
Anterior uveitis
The daily educational pearl – Cholinergic syndrome
Signs and symptoms of cholinergic syndrome
SLUDGE is the usual mnemonic used. And “the 3 killer Bs”. But I don’t like mnemonics. So if we start from head and go down:
The daily educational pearl – Brown-Sequard syndrome
The daily educational pearl – Central cord syndrome
Central cord syndrome
– usually occurs in the cervical cord, and the upper limbs are weaker than the lower limbs
The daily educational pearl – Cinchonism
The daily educational pearl – Dieulafoy ulcer
Dieulafoy ulcer
= upper GI bleeding caused by persistence of an arteriole in the stomach mucosa, that can bleed even with minuscule mucosal erosion; usually within 6 cm of the gastroesophageal junction on the lesser curvature of the stomach
The daily educational pearl – Cauda equina syndrome
Cauda equina syndrome
It is a neurosurgical emergency, due to compression of the lumbar and sacral nerve roots in the spinal canal, below conus medularis.
The daily educational pearl – Kussmaul sign
The daily educational pearl – How to do a pericardiocentesis
How to do a pericardiocentesis
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQTVqUPimdk – good video from NEJM on how to do it.