This is an idea that’s been gathering pace for a while. It’s a few years since I was in general practice but, even then, I was starting to find that having ultrasound in the consult room was immensely useful for a lot of cases as a triage tool and extension of the physical examination. The … Continue reading
This is an interesting topic that came up on SAMSoc forum recently. I guess the conventional view has always been that, yes, they somehow are more potent when given intravenously. We probably all tend to go intravenous for life-threatening infections such as endocarditis or septic peritonitis. But is this really borne out by the evidence? … Continue reading
This is something I’ve long been interested in. A friend of mine, half joking I think, suggested to me that our aim should be to suppress the development of other budding sonographers in the practices which we visit. I tried to defend myself that this is not the case. I strongly believe it’s a win-win. … Continue reading
This has been a raging debate in human medicine with a lot of papers published in recent years. Essentially the crux being whether MSCs provide their beneficial effects through release of locally-acting (paracrine) cytokines or through their incorporation into tissues as progenitor cells. It seems to me, as a non-academic, that this debate is moving … Continue reading
