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Therapeutic Misadventures: A medical misadventure linked to Kafka and Rasputin
Season 2
Episode 6
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
Description
An intubation that can make a poisoned patient worse. A drug Kafka called a remedy for misery. And a medicine that may have shaped Rasputin’s influence over the Romanovs.
Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.
An interactive emergency medicine case involving treatment-related harm, sedative and pain-medication toxicity, airway decisions, bleeding risk, and the hazards of therapeutic error.