Month August 2018
Tropical Travel Trouble

Mega Malaria Extravaganza

Part 1 of 3 of our mega tropical series covering Malaria, TB and HIV. Remember there is not always a unifying diagnosis...

LITFL RV 340 256

LITFL Review 342

Welcome to the 342nd LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on…

Emergency Musical Interlude

EMI 030 I’m at a Code

Counting down to SMACC 2019 - …if I could sing, or had rhythm, or a sense of humour - I'd be like T-pain on my way to a code…

Tropical Travel Trouble

Watery Diarrhoea

What is cholera and how is it transmitted? How do we treat it? How would you manage an outbreak? So much to learn about Watery Diarrhoea...

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LITFL Review 341

Welcome to the 341st LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on…

Tropical Travel Trouble

RUQ Pain and Jaundice

Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite that can invade tissue. Find out more about aetiology, diagnosis, management and treatment

Emergency Musical Interlude

EMI 029 Sound of Noise

The latest Emergency Musical Interlude features an excerpt of Swedish guerrilla percussionists at work, from the film Sound of Noise.

LITFL RV 340 256

LITFL Review 340

Welcome to the 340th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on…

Tropical Travel Trouble

Bloody Diarrhoea

Dysentery (bloody diarrhoea) is usually associated with fever but this is not always the case. Shigella aetiology, differential and management