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Category Clinical Cases

LITFL Clinical Case Collection. Over 250 Q&A style clinical cases to assist Just in Time Learning and Life Long Learning. Cases are categorised by specialty and can be searched by keyword from the database table

Ophthalmology-Befuddler 340 256

Befuddling Pupillary Asymmetry

A medical student on your team asks you to review an 81 year-old female who speaks little English. She was BIBA to the ED following a fall. Her nursing home transfer sheet says that the fall was witnessed: she tripped and there was no loss of consciousness. The student is concerned that the patient’s right pupil is fixed and slightly dilated in the presence of facial abrasions. Facial views have been ordered.
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

Trauma! Major Burns

The latest trauma tribulation by John Larkin on the emergency assessment and management of major burns.
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?
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.
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?