OzEMedicine - Wiki for Australian Emergency Medicine Doctors

• main wiki index page
• Western Health ED main page
• webmail
• patient information sheets (fact sheets)

see also:

• Western Health page on this wiki including links to specialty services
• Western Health cardiology services
• Western Health radiology services including ultrasound
• Western Health Pathology Services - Dorevitch
• Western Health ED nursing education resource page
• Western Health ED medical education and registrar training resource page
• Western Health ED medical student education resource page
• Western Health Director of Emergency Medicine Training (DEMT) resource page
• Western Health Enhanced Crisis Assessment Treatment Team (ECATT)
• Western Health ED care coordinators resource page
• Western Health Joseph Epstein Centre for Emergency Medicine Research (JECEMR)

• Vic. DHS Clinicians Health Channel - therapeutic guidelines, MIMS online - requires login, password
• PBS - approved medications search
• Vic. DHS notification of notifiable infectious diseases - make sure you SCROLL DOWN to BOTTOM of the linked page to see items!
• EMRAP audio CME updates
• Find Zebra - search for rare causes os symptoms and signs
• Western Health library resources and journal search

• main index page
• clinical procedures
• trauma
• toxinology - snake and spider bites, etc
• toxicology links and Mx of overdoses and poisonings
  • paracetamol overdose
  • Mx of psychostimulant ice/speed/ectasy toxicity incl. sedation protocols
• paediatric clinical guidelines and links to RCH website
• neonatal guidelines and the Victorian Neonatal Handbook topics
• the lactating patient in ED

• general anticoagulation guidelines including Mx of high INR on warfarin
• Mx of DVT
• investigation of suspected pulmonary embolism
• hypokalaemia
• hyperkalaemia
• diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
• Western Health early pregnancy assessment service (EPAS) referral process

• ED overcrowding and access block resources
• hospital policies on medico-legal issues
• common emergency department patient presentations

• Western Eye Clinic:
  • Private clinic at Suite 210, Level 2, 1 Thomas Holmes Rd, Maribyrnong
  • All patients require a referral letter with the patient’s bradma sticker and a provider number, and the patient will be billed
  • ph: 9317 8930 fax: 9912 2306
  • Public patients who do not wish to be billed can be referred to either:
    • Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
    • Royal Melbourne Hospital
    • Royal Children’s Hospital for paediatric referrals.
• Dermatologists:
  • Eleanor St dermatology clinic (Drs Anne Howard, John Su, Josie Yeatman, Mei Tam):
    • 16 Eleanor Street, Footscray. tel: 93173344.
  • Dr Bruce Tate:
    • 198 Furlong Rd, Sunshine ph: 93560411
  • Dr Belinda Welsh Sunbury
• Gynaecology oncologist:
  • Mr Rome
    • Suite 115, 1st floor Epworth Freemasons Day Centre, 320 Victoria Pde, E. Melbourne
    • ph: 9418 8128 fax 9418 8130
  • patients with suspicious ovarian masses, consider taking blood for FBE, U&E, LFT, CA-125, CA 19.9, HCG as tumour markers
    • see the patient with an adnexal mass