Category LITFL
Clinical Cases ECG LITFL 680

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 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 spleen pulsates continuously, if violently moved by 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?