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Medicine Shredded

This series consists of voice notes, each approximately 2 minutes long, in which Prof Martin Brand and colleagues provide short understandable descriptions of common topics for health care professionals and students.

Weekly English South Africa Education · Natural Sciences Prof Martin Brand

21 Episodes

1 – 20

Trauma surgery: triage

Triaging trauma patients into categories of treatment urgency is an essential tool to ensure patients receive appropriate timely care. We go through the basic principles if triage.

17 Dec 3 min

Trauma surgery: Being the leader of a trauma resuscitation

Be it by yourself, in a team of two, or having several people to assist with a trauma resuscitation, communication must be clear and concise in these pressure filled situations. We break it down for. you in the voice note.

17 Dec 4 min

Trauma surgery: The primary survey

Clinical assessment of a trauma patient always begins with the primary survey, done to identify immediately life threatening injuries and manage them before continuing with the initial assessment.

17 Dec 3 min

Trauma surgery: Reading a pelvic x-ray

By assessing the integrity of symmetrical lines we can diagnose significant boney pelvic injuries that may require further investigations or treatment.

17 Dec 2 min

Trauma Surgery: Reading a chest x-ray

In this voice note we use the ABCDEF mnemonic to rule out life-threatening chest injuries by discussing this systematic approach to reading a chest x-ray, which may be applied to reading a chest x-ray in any clinical situation.

17 Dec 3 min

Trauma Surgery: Reading a cervical spine x-ray

Here we go through the basic principles of reading a 'cervical spine' x-ray for a patient who may have a potential cervical spine injury; which is actually composed of 3 views namely the lateral, anterior-posterior and the open mouth view.

17 Dec 3 min

Trauma surgery: Emergency intubation equipment and technique

In this voice note we’ll go through an emergency intubation for a trauma patient. We'll go over the minimum equipment required to do so and then a quick step-by-step technique to intubate a patient.

17 Dec 4 min

Sialolithiasis (Salivary gland stones) explained

Here we talk about the presentation, diagnosis and management of salivary gland stones.

12 Jun 2024 1 min

Cutaneous melanoma: Diagnosis

In this voice note we discuss the clinical examination of a skin lesion to determine whether it's a melanoma using the ABCDE or Glasgow 7 point classification systems.

12 Jun 2024 2 min