Category LITFL
Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Lung collapse Case 1

This patient suffered right sided chest trauma with a rib fracture, tension pneumothorax and extensive surgical emphysema. Then became more SOB after treatment with ICC

Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Pneumothorax Case 1

A 20 year old man presents with shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. What does this ultrasound show?

ICE -Ian’s clinical emergencies 340

ICE 013: Marathon runner develops chest pain

A 36 year old man has just completed a marathon. He develops chest heaviness, shortness of breath, nausea and feels dizzy and faint. He has no known past medical history and considers himself to be in excellent health, regularly competing in long distance running events.

Spaso Miljesic Croatian, Nurse Specialist 340

Spaso technique

Spaso Miljesic (1946 - ) Croatian, Nurse Specialist. Famous for the 'Spaso technique' for the reduction of shoulder dislocations described in 1998.

RYDA

Luck of the Irish

“Luck of the Irish” – the Australian program (RYDA) saving Irish lives on the road - Just one Life

ICE -Ian’s clinical emergencies 340

ICE 012: 2 year old with a painful leg

A 2 year old child is brought in by her mother. The child is limping and seemingly refusing to weight bear on the right leg. The mother is a little vague about what might have happened but wonders if her daughter was injured while playing with her older siblings out in the garden this afternoon. The child objects to you touching and moving her right lower leg.

Is FOAM at fault?

A medical practitioner learns something from FOAM, puts it into practice and things go wrong... Who is at fault?

ICE -Ian’s clinical emergencies 340

ICE 011: Tall Story

An 83 year old man with a past history of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and ischaemic heart disease has become progressively unwell over the last 5 days. His GP discovered a pneumonia on CXR and has been treating him with oral antibiotics for the last 3 days but his clinical condition has continued to worsen.