Chest versus head

Todd Fraser on 2010-02-04 16:45:00

So here's the patient - a young man is involved in a motor vehicle accident. He has significant pulmonary contusions and segmental lung collapse, and has a small haemopneumothorax...

Difficulty with organ donation

Todd Fraser on 2010-06-24 13:09:00

A 23 year old man has suffered a severe brain injury and associated facial injuries in a motor vehicle accident. Clinically he shows no sign of brain function, and a nuclear medic...

Pregnancy in Critical Care

Todd Fraser on 2010-07-17 19:07:00

This week's pickle was a 30 year old woman who was 29 weeks pregnant. She presented with a week of viral sounding prodromal symptoms and a cough. She was having frequent contract...

Would Anyone Intubate this Man?

Todd Fraser on 2010-08-11 17:11:00

This week's blog was sent in by Andrew Stapleton : "I am getting considerable grief from the respiratory physicians for refusing to intubate a 67 yr old man with longstanding CO...

When to de-escalate antibiotics... not so straight forward

Todd Fraser on 2010-07-04 11:52:00

I recently had a 65 year old man with abdominal sepsis following an anastomotic breakdown post right hemicolectomy. After the diagnosis was made, he developed severe sepsis, requi...

Interesting Case - Torrential Mitral Regurgitation

Todd Fraser on 2013-05-05 11:55:29

An interesting case was forwarded to me recently.  It was a 59 year old woman with diabetes and hypertension, who had what sounded like a delayed presentation of a myocardi...

Interesting Case - severe pneumonia

Todd Fraser on 2013-05-14 10:11:07

Another interesting case was sent to me this week, and on the basis of the response to last weeks, I thought this might be an interesting theme to explore.  I'll add some m...

Interesting Case - Severe acidosis

Todd Fraser on 2013-10-13 08:09:02

Here's another interesting case sent in this week.

A 65 year old woman was brought in by ambulance to emergency, grossly obtunded with abdominal pain and vomiting.  ...