Foreign Bodies

Tree! Mend us!

Posted on April 16, 2009. Filed under: Apply topically, Foreign Bodies |

A fantastic story in this weeks news about a 28 year old Russian man called Artyom Sidorkin.  Who presented to Doctors with chest pains, he was sent for X-ray.   The X-ray showed a large shadow and Doctors told Mr Sidorkin that they feared he had lung cancer.
Presumably with a previously healthy young man with a [...]

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Mechanism of Injury…

Posted on July 10, 2008. Filed under: Benign, Foreign Bodies |

The mechanism of injury is an important part of history taking when finding out about an injured patient.  You can tell a lot about the injury when you can visualise what actually happened.

If a patient states “I had a car crash”, the mechanism of injury allows us to find out speed, airbag activation, seat belt impact, [...]

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Strange FB’s again

Posted on March 7, 2007. Filed under: Foreign Bodies |

This is quite bizarre, and a little bit legendary in my neck of the woods, so I was slightly reserved against sharing it as it may give away my alter ego identity, (but I’m not too worried).
Are you sitting comfortably?  Then I shall begin…
It was a couple of years ago, when I was a fresh [...]

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Foreign Bodies

Posted on March 2, 2007. Filed under: Foreign Bodies |

I suppose my first thought goes back to a trip as a student nurse to one of the London Hospital museums. I remember lots of glass cabinets filled with kidney stones, a massive ball of hair retrieved from a womans stomach and an Alka Seltzers bottle, these are other peoples stories…
So in my working time [...]

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