A 27 year old male with head and extensive facial trauma is admitted to the intensive care unit after a neurosurgical intervention for an acute subdural haemorrhage. There has been difficulty with oxygenation in the operating theatre.
18 year old man day 7 in ICU after jumping from a building. Tracheostomy performed the day before. Acute respiratory distress with inability to pass a suction catheter through the tracheostomy tube.
LITFL asks Scott Weingart for his take on the approach to the hemodynamically unstable pelvic fracture. The end result: a high yield mini-podcast. Enjoy!
When I was starting out, I was told there were three types of doctors doing emergency medicine: missionaries, adrenaline junkies, and fools. I was all three...
Gregory Miller, MD is a Twitter recent-adopter and provides Twenty Twitter Rules from 'the novice perspective' on getting involved in #FOAMed Twittersphere
Subungual haematoma: common nail bed injury caused by blunt trauma, effectively treated by trephination with excellent outcomes.
The Confrontation a Les Misérables Emergency Musical Interlude: where an ED doc and a Hospitalist lock horns in counterpoint juxtaposition...
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned medical trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 250
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday! Time to try an alternative challenge for Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 249.
Just a case of tonsillitis, I've put them in short stay for review ...then you see the pseudomembrane, hear the gurgling and think diphtheria
Tropical and Travel Case 010, Fever, Arthralgia and Rash in a traveler from Bali. Could it be Dengue?
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday! Time to try the WHO AM I challenge for Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 248