Hit the deer, not the tree

65 year old man swerves to avoid a deer, has a head on collision with a tree instead. One week later, his wife finds him confused and unresponsive. He goes to an outside hospital, has his head scanned, siezes and is transferred to our hospital. The neurologist believes he is encephalopathic and […]

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Always see your patients!

I had a few comments that this post might have contained too much information. Instead, I am offering you a fun link:
Fun Brain
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All bleeding stops eventually

Last night was non-stop crisis intervention, it seemed. After two new admissions, the remainder of the unit seemed to do nothing but bleed. We were ordering blood replacements on at least four patients, maybe five. In most cases, we had and still have no idea where the blood was going.
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