[Gnumed-devel] Re: External clinical resources (was: no subject)

[Syan Tan]

sorry, I was bookmarking for myself, because I haven't done infectious disease systematically for a long while.

I've heard of someone dying of splenic rupture post glandular fever in the geelong area ( west of melbourne) , and someone getting

tetanus there as well ( I also remember a GP sending someone in with uncertain tet immunization history for tet immunoglobulin after a wound,

 and the GP getting irate when I asked if it was necessary over the phone - the GP had been a peer in my second year ) . And I saw someone who had a fever, was swearing with a bad headache, and later grew

meningicoccal on blood culture after 4 days, and she was treated for meningitis ( soon after presentation).

Not sure if you can get false positive blood cultures . All happens in geelong, maybe.

On Mon Mar 13 16:53 , James Busser sent:

> On Mar 12, 2006, at 1:13 AM, Syan Tan wrote:
> > http://www.kcom.edu/faculty/chamberlain/website/lectures/syllabi3.htm
>
> I gather Syan offered this as a clinical link people might find of  
> interest.
>
> I agree this site provides helpful quick information. I did notice in  
> the lecture on infectious mononucleosis that splenic rupture was  
> described as "rare". Even so, many of us believe it wise to advise  
> avoidance of splenic trauma for at least 3-4 weeks, and when I  
> offered this suggestion to the author, it was quickly and politely  
> incorporated :-)
>
> This does remind me that in Oscar there is a place to organize  
> external references & resources, I will keep this in mind after my  
> next heavy work cycle Mar 15-31 when I can have a bit further look at  
> gnumed.