A bashed head
A 27 year-old male was involved in head on collision at high speed. He was GCS 8 at the scene.
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
Another complication of facial trauma
A 27 year old male with head and extensive facial trauma is admitted to the intensive care unit after a neurosurgical intervention for an acute subdural haemorrhage. There has been difficulty with oxygenation in the operating theatre.
It’s not a bird or a plane…
18 year old man day 7 in ICU after jumping from a building. Tracheostomy performed the day before. Acute respiratory distress with inability to pass a suction catheter through the tracheostomy tube.
Subungual haematoma trephination
Following on from Bone and Joint Bamboozler 006 we outline a simple method for trephination (drainage) of the subungual haematoma
Tonsillitis and the Bull
Just a case of tonsillitis, I've put them in short stay for review ...then you see the pseudomembrane, hear the gurgling and think diphtheria
Fever, Arthralgia and Rash
Tropical and Travel Case 010, Fever, Arthralgia and Rash in a traveler from Bali. Could it be Dengue?
Humongous HIV Extravaganza
Tropical Travel Trouble is a series of clinical cases that you may see in the tropics or your own ED from the dreaded returned traveller. HIV
Total TB Extravaganza
What is tuberculosis (TB)? This tropical travel clinical case extravaganza covers aetiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB
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...
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...
RUQ Pain and Jaundice
Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite that can invade tissue. Find out more about aetiology, diagnosis, management and treatment
Bloody Diarrhoea
Dysentery (bloody diarrhoea) is usually associated with fever but this is not always the case. Shigella aetiology, differential and management