Dr Lisa Searle on life between war zones and bulldozers
GP Dr Lisa Searle’s life is one of extremes — from providing medical care in war-torn countries to chaining herself to bulldozers in old-growth forests.…
Tag: Emergency medicine
Nurse suspended after stealing morphine from patients
A nurse has been sanctioned after repeatedly ‘misappropriating’ morphine from a regional ED, including doses intended for patients. The WA State Administrative Tribunal said he…
Spot Dx — What’s behind this gum pain?
Emma is a 23-year-old university student who presents with a four-week history of progressive gingival swelling, pain, bleeding and now purulent exudate. Test your clinical…
Crushed skulls, missing helmets and data blind spots: E-scooter trauma alarming surgeons
Among the PowerPoint slides shared with colleagues by vascular surgeon Dr John Crozier are videos of e-scooter falls and the gory images of the wounds…
GP who botched his first face lift guilty of hubris, tribunal says
A GP without training in invasive cosmetic procedures performed a face lift for acne scarring that breached the patient’s occipital artery, a tribunal says. The…
We have ways of tracking patient deterioration. So why aren’t we using them to save lives?
I like to look back at my career — both the successes and the failures. Although I am now non-practising, I believe I have insight…
Parental instincts better than vital signs at predicting clinical deterioration, study suggests
Amid political fallout from a two-year-old’s death while awaiting treatment in ED, a study has suggested parental concerns can predict a child’s clinical deterioration better…
Homemade silver remedy leaves patient with the permanent blues: Aussie case report
A homemade silver solution for a flu-like illness left a patient with the permanent blues after he developed argyria, SA doctors report. The 63-year old…
Do doctors really withdraw life support prematurely for patients with brain injuries?
Medicine is about life and death, a fact starkest when doctors advise families to end life support for a loved one. These decisions are routine…
A rapid deterioration follows DKA discharge
Nikki, a slightly built 30-year-old woman with a 10-year history of type 1 diabetes, is brought to ED by ambulance with an altered level of…
