Needing a Diagnostic Kick-start
A 4 year-old boy has been brought to the emergency department by his worried parents. He has had fevers for the past 6 days. Kawasaki disease?
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
Ballistically Potent Vertigo
A 50 year-old woman sees the world spin round when she hangs up her washing. Can you make the diagnosis and effect a cure?
Diagnosis, Wenckebach Squared?
Find out the solution to LITFL's most recent ECG Exigency, is the diagnosis Wenckebach? Wenckebach AV block SA block
Diagnosis, Wenckebach?
Can you spot the "deliberate" mistake and solve the puzzle of this unusual ECG tracing? Wenckebach AV block SA block
Lung abscess
A previously healthy 22 year old man with a 4 week history. He describes the cough, some mild shortness of breath on exertion, purulent sputum, fevers, night sweats and weight loss.
A Most Discombobulating Gas
Are you discombobulated by this blood gas? It will lead you down an unexpected path...
Lung point Case 005
This thin young man presented with left sided sharp chest pain worse on deep inspiration. You take a quick look on either side for pneumothorax. What do you see?
Lung Metastasis Case 002
A young patient with a history of malignant melanoma presents with shortness of breath. What do these clips show?
Lung Metastasis Case 001
A patient with a history of COPD / severe emphysema presents with weight loss, some pleuritic chest pain, and an exacerbation of their shortness of breath. What does this ultrasound clip demonstrate?
Pleural Effusion Case 001
A young patient with a history of sarcoma presents with shortness of breath. What does this clip show?
Empyema Case 1
A poorly kempt, chronic alcoholic with a history of intravenous drug use presents to ED. He is confused, febrile, tachycardic, tachypenoeic and hypoxic.
An unusual wrist injury
Dislocation of the distal radio-ulna joint (DRUJ) is a rare injury, particularly when it occurs without associated fractures of the distal radius and ulna.