Tension Pneumothorax – an alternative view
Ever since being faced with a spontaneous tension pneumothorax at sea on a dived submarine...I have had an interest in managing pneumothorax.
Category Respiratory
Ultrasound Case 079
Presentation A previously well 49 year old man presents with chest pain. He is tachycardic, tachypneoic and hypoxic with blood pressure 110 He is 2 weeks post ankle surgery. Describe and interpret these scans
Lung Point Case 3
45 year old male presents with left sided chest pain after scuba diving. What does the ultrasound show? Tiny pneumothorax and lung point
Bedside Echo in Pulmonary Embolism
A 35 year-old female is brought to the emergency department after collapsing in a shopping centre. McConnell sign
Exogenous Calcium Embolism
Patient presentes to ED with acute shortnewss of breath post Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PVP) with cement embolus cardiovascualr curveball
Pneumothorax Case 5
A 36 year old woman presents with sharp left sided chest pain.
What do these clips of her left chest show?
Manes Kartagener
Manes Kartagener (1897 - 1975) was an Austrian-Swiss physician. First to report the triad of situs inversus, chronic sinusitis and bronchiectasis in 1933 – Kartagener syndrome.
Jacob Churg
Jacob Churg (1910–2005) was a Belarussian/Polish born American practicing pathologist. Eponymous affiliation with Churg-Strauss Syndrome (CSS) in 1951. Now known as Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA)
Kerley lines
Peter James Kerley first described horizontal lines that he postulated to be peri-vascular lymphatics in patients with mitral stenosis and left ventricular failure
Own the Chest Tube!
The LITFL team have scoured the web to find the best collection of online instructional videos known to man or woman to help you 'own the chest tube'!
Tintinalli Respiratory MCQs
Tintinalli Respiratory multiple choice questions MCQs for ACEM Fellowship
Alteplase (rtPA)
Alteplase is a tissue plasminogen activator used as a thrombolytic medication in: Acute Ischaemic Strokes, Acute Myocardial Infarction and PE