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Browsing Archive: July, 2018

Ankle injuries - A good review on the Emergency Medicine Case site

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, July 4, 2018, In : Clinical topics 


The ankle joint was one of the last things I studied in anatomy waaaay back in university; probably in First or Second Med. It seemed to be a victim of priority and as a result was never studied that well. Yet we see 'sprained' ankles all the time in the ED and there is a goodly proportion of them that end up in the circuit medical centre. 

Often it's an official who has rolled their ankle while accessing or leaving their track position. Sometimes someone has gone over in the paddock. It might...

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Back yourself - A cautionary tale

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, July 4, 2018, In : Clinical topics 


OK, I promised that I would lay off concussion for a while but on the same day that I published the first part of the concussion podcast with Prof David Hughes, I received an email from a friend in the U.S.

Gregg Summerville is a New Jersey emergency physician who also works with Corvette Racing, travelling with them to places like LeMans and Watkins Glen. As a result, he gets to know the drivers and administrative staff quite well. He sent me a piece that he wrote based on a clinical scenari...

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