Eating Batteries, Drinking Alien’s Blood – Part 2
The blood gas gives you back much information... Yet, you should know how to interpret them, how to go back to the source of the problem, and how to treat it... Acidosis and alkalosis are not just two different entities, they are two different worlds...
Eating Batteries, Drinking Alien’s Blood – Part 1
How many times have you heard the anesthesiologists or the ER doctors asking for a blood gas during an emergency? Do you know why it is so important? Do you know how to read it? Here is the first part of our brief talk about the most important lab test in a critical patient.
The Devil Behind the Curtains
Sometimes gallstones increase in size, become impacted, and cause a sort of chronic cholecystitis... This condition is called Mirizzi syndrome, and it carries many troubles with it... Find out when to suspect it, and how to manage it...
Breaking the Cage
Chest trauma is one of the most common, and it includes a whole bunch of possible different injuries: some of them life-threatening, others less worrisome...
In#!@$*ception
Intussusception is a rare cause of bowel obstruction in adults. Here you can find more about it... Pathogenesis, diagnosis and management...
