Traumatic Angioedema
A 33 year old caucasian female presented to the emergency department following minor trauma to her upper lip. Traumatic Angioedema?
Category LITFL
Vincenz Czerny
Biography Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Paget disease of bone Paget defined the modern clinical entity in a paper read in 1876 and published in 1877, naming it osteitis deformans. Although Czerny had used the term Ostitis deformans in 1873…
Co-oximeter
Co-oximeter: a device that uses spectrophotometry to measure relative blood concentrations of oxyhemoglobin, carboxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin, and reduced haemoglobin
High-flow nasal cannula
High-flow nasal cannula aka heated humidified HFNC or high floe nasal prongs used in cases of hypoxic respiratory failure
The perfect human pathogen?
With winter comes norovirus. This Q&A post tests your knowledge of what may be the perfect human pathogen.
Fever in a spinal patient
A woman had a spinal injury from a car crash at 2 years of age; she since had spinal surgery and has a baclofen pump. Now she has a fever - what's the cause?
Escaping bugs
A 13-year old female with pyelonephritis is being treated with ceftriaxone. Enterobacter cloacae is cultured. Got a problem with that?
Sick, Shocked and Sunburned?
A 15 year-old female with fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, whole body 'sunburn' and hypotension. It's over to you...
CAP Challenge!
Australia CAP - 'Microbial Mystery' of case-based Q&As focusing on causative organisms and antibiotic selection.
Fulminant pneumococcal pneumonia
A 27 year old female with metastatic ovarian cancer for whom treatment options have been exhausted arrives in the ED in extremis.
Gram Negative Diplococci
21 year-old presenting to the emergency department with fevers and agitation. His lumbar puncture confirms Gram Negative Diplococci
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 106
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 106 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.