Staying with your patient from yesterday, you decide that he needs an indwelling urinary catheter. But what size?
Category Archives: Previous assorted info snippets
The daily educational pearl – What is the normal bladder volume in a 4 yo child?
Your next patient is a 4 yo who has a UTI and his mother tells you that he hasn’t passed urine for more than 10 hours. Your nurse does a bladder scan…. but you’re not sure what to do when she tells you that the volume is 130 mls.
The daily educational pearl – management of increased intracranial pressure
Management of increased intracranial pressure in the emergency department
The daily educational pearl – dermatitis herpetiformis
= symmetric grouped vesicles, papules, and wheals that are extremely pruritic, that occur on the elbows, knees, scalp, and buttocks
The daily educational pearl – grading SAH
This is the CT brain of a 43 yo man brought in by ambulance after he collapsed at home. GCS is 3. What does the CT show?
The daily educational pearl – fractures of the base of the 5th metatarsal
Your next patient is a 27 yo woman who inverted her foot while playing netball and is now unable to weight bear due to pain.
Lapband ‘O’ sign
The daily educational pearl – abdominal compartment syndrome
Abdominal compartment syndrome
= organ dysfunction caused by intra-abdominal hypertension
The daily educational pearl – sinuses
Which sinuses are pneumatized at birth?
The daily educational pearl – a bit of history
Who said “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”