Sink Into Quicksand
Enteroatmospheric fistula is a complex complication of abdominal surgery that increases post-operative hospitalization and mortality. Its management may be very challenging, and it requires specific knowledge.
Newton and the Palm Tree: The Awful Coconut Law
Traumatic brain injuries are one of the most frequent results in blunt trauma... The knowledge of how to correctly manage patients with mild TBI is mandatory to avoid wasting resources without underestimating the severity of the injury...
How to Read a Treasure Map – Part 2
Here you can find a couple of tricks nobody ever tells to help you reading and interpreting CT scan images...
How to Read a Treasure Map – Part 1
In our daily jobs as clinicians, our decisions are more and more based not only on our clinical judgment but on imaging as well. In the last decades, CT scan has gained more and more power in the usual diagnostic pathway, greatly influencing therapeutic decisions... Knowing how to read and interpret CT scan images from the clinicians' standpoint is a great weapon!!! Here you can find out why and how to do that...
Like Vampires Drinking Holy Water – Part 1
One of the most fearsome and unpredictable events we may face as surgeons in the Emergency Room... Patients coming in after caustic ingestion enclose a vast spectrum of injuries: from none to complete necrosis of the upper gastrointestinal tract... Making a correct diagnosis and defining a precise grading is essential to plan the best following management...
