Clinical Pearls
Short, high-yield teaching points for emergency medicine candidates. Each pearl is a 3-minute read built around one fact that lands on exams and saves patients.
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Endocrine · DKA · 3 min read
DKA — fluid first, insulin second (the order that catches trainees out)
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Tropical · Severe malaria · 4 min read
Severe malaria in adults — recognising cerebral involvement early
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Obstetric · Eclampsia · 3 min read
Eclampsia — Pritchard magnesium, not phenytoin
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Trauma · Antifibrinolytics · 3 min read
TXA in trauma — the CRASH-2 3-hour window (and when it harms)
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Electrolytes · Hyponatraemia · 3 min read
Sodium correction speed — the central pontine trap
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Toxicology · Paracetamol · 4 min read
Paracetamol overdose — Rumack-Matthew nomogram interpretation
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Cardiology · Antiarrhythmics · 3 min read
Magnesium first, amiodarone second — why Torsades breaks the ACLS rules
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Cardiology · ECG · 4 min read
Wellens syndrome — the pain-free LAD time bomb
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Resuscitation · 3 min read
The 4 Hs and 4 Ts of cardiac arrest — your 90-second framework