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Month September 2018
Trauma Tribulation 340 256

Trauma! Major Burns

The latest trauma tribulation by John Larkin on the emergency assessment and management of major burns.
Trauma Tribulation 340 256

What Weingart would do?

Trauma in the ER with no back-up: a knife in the back. To pull or not to pull.... What would you do? Or better yet, what would Weingart do?
Trauma Tribulation 340 256

What Weingart would do II

Trauma in the ER with no back-up: To pull or not to pull.... We find out what Weingart would do, and the outcome of this sphincter-tightening trauma tribulation.
Trauma Tribulation 340 256

Trauma Under Pressure

A young man is fighting for his life following a motorcycle accident. Can you save the day in this, the 34th LITFL case-based Q&A trauma tribulation?
EBM Gone Wild snow 340

Do air pockets help avalanche survival?

The theoretical is obvious. If you have an air pocket you can breathe into after an avalanche, you should survive longer than if you don’t. This study intended to ascertain if this was true, as their hypothesis was that air…

Paediatric Perplexity 340 256

Nasal foreign body

A case-based Q-and-A on procedural sedation using ketamine to remove a button battery from a child's nose. What if laryngospasm occurs?
Paediatric Perplexity 340 256

Horrible Spots and Pain

A 4 year-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his parents with a history of increasing numbers of red spots on his legs over the past 6 days.
Paediatric Perplexity 340 256

Zany Zipper

A 6-year old boy presents to ED in agony after entrapping his penis in the zipper of his new jeans. Do you have the skills to set him free?