Podcast – Covid-19 in Italy with Roberto Cosentini
Learning lessons from the COVID pandemic in Italy. A podcast with a physician at the centre of the crisis.
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Respiratory
JC: Conservative management of pneumothoraces.
When I trained here in Virchester we had a fairly aggressive approach to the management of pneumothoraces. All trauma pneumothoraces got chest drains, a chest drain meant an open one,
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JC: Pulmonary Embolism – The PEGeD study
The use of clinical probability adjusted d-dimer thresholds for exclusion of pulmonary embolism
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Pulmonary Embolism – We call it massiiiiiiivve
I have been asked to talk about the diagnosis of massive PE for the upcoming EUSEM congress in Glasgow this month. We have blogged on this before1, but it’s a
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The Argument for Systemic Thrombolytics in Submassive Pulmonary Embolism. Swami at St.Emlyn’s
On June 15th 2016, I delivered an 8 minute talk arguing that we strongly consider the administration of systemic thrombolytics in patients with submassive pulmonary embolism at SMACCDub. This talk
Chest drains & aspiration: Do it better with St.Emlyn’s
This is just a quickie to support some local teaching in Virchester on ‘chest drain’ insertion, or ‘intercostal drains’ if you prefer additional consonants or ‘chest tubes’ if you are
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Prevalence of PE in patients with syncope
There is a bit of a buzz on social media at the moment1 about an interesting paper in the NEJM2 on the prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in patients with syncope3.
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JC: Why don’t we use dexamethasone for children’s asthma?
This post is written by Dr Niall Morris Prednisolone is about as tried and tested a treatment as we have in medicine. We all know how fantastic it is for
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