Practical Emergency Medicine

PALS: Tachycardia 1. The initial evaluation is as follows: [1, 2, 3, 4] Assess appropriateness for clinical condition (pulse present)....

What are diagnostic tests? A diagnostic test can be defined as ‘any kind of medical test performed to aid in the diagnosis or detection...

This ECG was obtained from a patient in a walk-in health clinic. We do not have any other information on the patient. We thank Joe...

This ECG was obtained from a 13-year-old boy who had previously been in NSR. At that time, he was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White...

This rhythm strip shows third-degree AV block, also called complete heart block or complete AV block. The P waves are from the sinus...

What is the oxygen dissociation curve? The oxygen dissociation curve is a graph that plots the proportion of haemoglobin in its...

This ECG is nearly completely normal. We say "nearly" because there are VERY subtle changes which may or may not be chronic. ...

Here is a good example of an ECG showing the signs of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome during normal sinus rhythm. WPW is one of the...

Breaking bad news is something that every doctor will have to do many times during his or her career. It can be a tremendously difficult...

In Part 1 of ‘The Oxygenator Assessment’ we learnt what the oxygentor is. In Part 2 we are going to look at the 6 big issues that need to...