Category LITFL
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Electrocardiographic Exigency

A 23 year-old man had an episode of syncope at home. He is in severe respiratory distress, extremely pale, dripping with sweat. ECG Exigency

EMA Journal 340 2

EMA June 2014

Issue 3 (Vol. 26) of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) for 2014 was published online on 4 June. Editorial overview by Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes

Clinical-Cases-LITFL-Cardiovascular-curveball 340

Exogenous Calcium Embolism

Patient presentes to ED with acute shortnewss of breath post Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PVP) with cement embolus cardiovascualr curveball

EMA Journal 340 2

EMA April 2014

Issue 2 (Vol. 26) of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) for 2014 was published online on 8 April. Editorial overview by Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes

Nicolaes Tulp

Biography Born 11 October 1594 Died 12 September 1674 Medical Eponyms Pulsatile spleen (lien verberans) also know as Gerhardt sign (1882); Sailer sign (1928) first described by Tulp in 1641 Nothing in medical art is better known than that the…

Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Pneumothorax Case 5

A 36 year old woman presents with sharp left sided chest pain.
What do these clips of her left chest show?