Sinus tachycardia
The Other arrhythmias page has been updated with additional information about pathological causes of sinus tachycardia, including re-entrant sinus tachycardia.
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Introduction to cardiac arrhythmias
The Introduction to cardiac arrhythmias page has been updated with some additional information about potential causes of a broad complex tachycardias.
SVT
The Supraventricular tachycardia page has been updated.
Fibroids
The Fibroids segment on the Gynaecological disorders page has been revised and updated.
Polymyalgia rheumatica
The Polymyalgia rheumatica page has been revised and updated.
Post traumatic stress disorder
Some additions to the Torture and trauma page regarding PTSD have been made.
Suicide risk and prevention
The Suicide risk page has been updated with additional information about suicide risk factors and methods of prevention.
Mixed systemic sclerosis
The Scleroderma page has been updated with some additional information about diagnostic testing for the condition.
ESR and CRP in SLE – correction
A correction has been made to the Systemic lupus erythematosus page. CRP does not correlate with disease activity, but ESR does (not the other way round as stated previously).
Biomarkers in rheumatoid arthritis
The Rheumatoid arthritis page has been updated with additional information regarding the role of biomarkers in the diagnosis and assessment of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis.
NEXUS chest criteria
The Assessment of the trauma patient page has been updated with additional information about the relative value of the NEXUS chest criteria in predicting significant thoracic injury.
Pleural effusions
The Pleural effusion page has been updated with additional information about the potential causes.
Subcutaneous foreign bodies
The Subcutaneous foreign bodies page has been updated with additional information about imaging for foreign bodies.
Gastrointestinal foreign bodies
The Gastrointestinal foreign bodies page has been revised and updated.
Bread bag ties
A small segment on ingested bread bag ties has been added to the Gastrointestinal foreign bodies page.
Ingested magnets
The Gastrointestinal foreign bodies page has been revised and updated.
Polymyalgia rheumatica
The Polymyalgia rheumatica page has been updated after the publication of the review: Owen, CE, Buchanan, RR, Hoi, A. Recent advances in polymyalgia rheumatica. Intern Med J 2015;45(11):1102-8.
Web stats 2015
Now that we are into the new year, we thought you might like to know just how popular the website was in 2015 – so here are some gratuitous stats for the year: 120,604 visits 3,035,695 pages viewed 14,360,804 hits I guess there must be quite a few people using it! Happy new year
ACEM Fellowship exam practice quiz corrections
Two answers in the ACEM Fellowship exam practice quiz have just been discovered to be incorrect and have now been corrected. Unfortunately we can’t tell you which ones without giving the quiz contents away!
Tuberculosis treatment
The Tuberculosis page has been updated with more information about the treatment of TB.