ECMO Troubleshooting
ECMO Troubleshooting: Approach to problems specific to patients requiring ECMO therapy
Category LITFL
Double Lumen Endotracheal Tube
A double lumen endotracheal tube (DLT) is an endotracheal tube designed to isolate the lungs from one another anatomically and/or physiologically
Brain Dead?
A baffling case of apparent brain death... Can you work out what has happened? A 35-year old female with a history of multiple sclerosis and depression is found collapsed at home. She is known to have access to quetiapine.
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 128 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Defibrillators
Defibrillator: application of an electrical current across the heart to convert VF/VT -> sinus rhythm
A Fumbling, Mumbling Mess!
A 41-year old man is brought to ED after becoming drowsy while in police custody. He states that he has taken an overdose of diazepam tablets prior to being arrested. A puzzling case of drug-induced delirium. Can you solve the mystery?
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 127 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 126 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Paracetamol-Induced Hepatotoxicity
A case of paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity with a discussion of the Schiodt scoring system for predicting paracetamol-induced liver failure.
No Radial Pulse
Your patient's finger tips have turned blue, and the paramedics are unable palpate a radial pulse.... "Is he in cardiogenic shock?" could this be Raynaud's phenomenon
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 125 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Propanolol Overdose
aka Toxicology Conundrum 044 A 27-year old female weighing 60kg presents to ED approximately one hour after swallowing 70 x 40mg propranolol tablets (= 2.8 grams) with suicidal intent. At the time of assessment she is drowsy (GCS 13) with…