Category LITFL

The Mystery of Chronic Pain

We often look at chronic pain patients in the emergency department as the bain of our existence. These patients patients will often challenge, confront and test all of our diagnostic and empathetic capabilities. But is it time for a better understanding and outlook at this…

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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 081

This week's FFFF features a game of 'who said what?' - have you got the necessary funtabulosity to attribute each quotation to the correct medical or literary luminary... or in one case 'non-luminary'...

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Hyponatraemic Seizures

Seizures and hyponatremia in a 10 year-old boy - can you answer the questions and find the solutions to the case-based questions in this laboratory tester?

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Young and Yellow

Fulminant hepatic failure is defined as the appearance of hepatic encephalopathy in a patient with acute deterioration of liver function with no previous history of liver disease.