A footballer has sustained an injury. The game can't restart until the injured player has left the pitch. There is a perfectly good stretcher and two fit and healthy stretcher-bearers. The injured man is only two meters from the sideline.
Player welfare is the number one priority in World Rugby, which has driven the development of evidence-based protocols for the identification and management of concussion
August Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Jennifer Potter and Nicholena Richardson from EMGuideWire
John Snow (1813-1858) was one of the first anaesthetists – he even chloroformed Queen Victoria! – but today he is famous for his investigation of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in Soho, London. By mapping the cases of cholera…
Sports medicine at the Touch World Cup in Malaysia. Traveling as the Australian team doctor, thorough medical preparation was critical when the tournament posed significant challenges playing in extremely hot conditions
Biography Medical Eponyms Dance Sign (1826) Sausage-like mass in the right upper quadrant with absence of bowel (or emptiness) in the right lower quadrant. The sign combines a visible depression/emptiness within the right iliac fossa and enlargement/fullness on the left…
Global DRO provides athletes and physicians information on prohibited status of medications based on the current WADA Prohibited List.
Paul Dudley White (1886-1973) was an American cardiologist. White with Louis Wolff and John Parkinson (WPW syndrome 1930); McGinn-White pattern (1935)
Sir John Parkinson (1885-1976) was an English cardiologist. In 1930, Parkinson along with Louis Wolff and Paul Dudley White, described WPW Syndrome
Louis Wolff (1898-1972) was an American cardiologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) described in 1930
Find out the solution to LITFL's most recent ECG Exigency, is the diagnosis Wenckebach? Wenckebach AV block SA block
Can you spot the "deliberate" mistake and solve the puzzle of this unusual ECG tracing? Wenckebach AV block SA block