Acute knee injury is very common. Plain films are commonly requested and most bony injuries are fairly obvious. However, the changes may be subtle and small bony avulsions may be a clue to more serious injury. Many knee injuries involve soft tissue structures and, where significant, may require MRI for investigation. To access the full […]
Dr Nicholas Ridley
Great Western Hospital
AI has already changed much of the world as we know it, from automating systems to improving the decisions we make and the ways we go about making them. Yet perhaps the most impactful and personal ways AI is changing our world are within the field of healthcare, where it is being used to diagnose, […]
Dr Asim Habib, Dr Muhammad Saleem Nasir, Dr Muzamil Chaudhary
Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
If you are reading this article, then you are probably old enough to remember when the internet wasn’t as widely available. Remember plugging in the cable that allowed you to use the internet via the phone socket? Remember the weird dial tone when you were being connected? In reality, we are only talking about 20 […]
Dr Mohammed Rashid Akhtar
St Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals
Perforation (from the Latin perforare – to pierce through) is a serious consequence of gastrointestinal disease compromising gastrointestinal tract (GIT) wall integrity. It can occur anywhere along the GIT and typically manifests as localised or generalised abdominal pain and signs of sepsis. However, acute abdominal pain can produce ambiguous clinical findings with a multitude of […]
Dr Helena Boryslawskyj, Dr Claire Ryan, Dr Damian Tolan
St James's University Teaching Hospital
Facial fractures are commonly encountered in UK emergency departments and, while blunt and penetrating trauma to the neck is less common, it accounts for an important minority of cases. Patients are typically initially evaluated using the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) protocol to identify life-threatening injuries that require urgent management. Clinical assessment is subsequently complemented […]
Dr George Bitar, Dr Philip Touska
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Mass casualty events (MCE) are events that overwhelm a healthcare system with the number of patients and/or the severity of their injuries, usually within a very short time frame. They can have natural causes (such as earthquakes), or be accidental (eg train crash) or deliberate (eg terrorist attack) disasters. By their nature they are unpredictable […]
Dr Elizabeth Dick
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Over the past 30 years point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has proven to be a significant disruptive technology and we stand on the precipice of a paradigm shift in the practice of medicine. With individual handheld units (HHU) costing no more than laptops some American universities have equipped their students with individual machines to integrate POCUS into […]
Mr Jim Connolly, Dr David Kung
Royal Victoria Infirmary
