Whilst at the International Conference of Emergency Medicine earlier this month, Professor Simon Carley (@EMManchester) and I recorded a St. Emlyn’s podcast about my time working in South Africa. The podcast is embedded below. We cover a lot of the content from my talk – ‘A UK Trainee’s Lessons From the Western Cape’ – you can find the references here. […]
ICEM Presentation References
Here is the list of references for my presentation at ICEM 2016 – ‘A UK Trainee’s Lessons From the Western Cape’. A recording of the presentation itself will follow shortly. References Arora, S., et al. (2011). “Mental practice enhances surgical technical skills: a randomized controlled study.” Ann Surg 253(2): 265-270. Asken, M. J. (2010). Warrior […]
Fluid Management in the Exsanguinating Trauma Patient
Tom Bourne (@Bourne4ED) is an EM advanced trainee currently plying his trade at The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre in Melbourne. Born in the UK, now settled in Australia, the only thing Bourney enjoys more than getting his hands dirty in resus is swinging a golf club in anger. If his medical career falls through, he can […]
Basic Cellular Physiology: Fluid Compartments
Osmosis ‘Osmosis is the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane from regions of low solute concentration to those of higher concentration’. Biological membranes are semi-permeable – they allow the free movement of water but restrict the movement of solutes. The creation of osmotic gradients is the primary method for the movement of water in […]
Basic Cellular Physiology: Homeostasis
Homeostasis is Greek for ‘staying the same’. In the context of human physiology the term homeostasis describes the maintenance of nearly constant conditions in the internal environment – physiological self-regulation. All organs and tissues perform functions that help to maintain this constancy – it is a coordinated, dynamic process. Disease can be conceptualised as a […]
Jake: I Think I Might Be Learning
Jacob Lentz attended the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is in his first year at UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency Class of 2019. Prior to medical school, Jake worked as a comedy writer for the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show for 8 and a half years. Here at Pondering EM, Jake blogs about his journey through […]
Upper Limb Anatomy: The Axilla
The axilla (armpit) is the zone of transition from the neck to the upper limb. It lies underneath the glenohumeral joint and has an irregular conical shape – like a tilted pyramid. The axilla is the passageway for the neurovascular bundle from the neck to the upper limb. Main contents of the axilla: Axillary artery […]
