Category Respiratory
Clinical-Cases-LITFL-Cardiovascular-curveball 340

Exogenous Calcium Embolism

Patient presentes to ED with acute shortnewss of breath post Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PVP) with cement embolus cardiovascualr curveball

Ultrasound cases top 100 340

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 (1897-1975) 340

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.

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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

Ruling the Resus Room 340

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'!

Pulmonary Puzzler 340

Pulmonary Embolus pondering

A 52 year old bricklayer is transferred from another hospital with an acute episode of dizziness, palpitations and tachycardia. 2 days prior, he had bilateral total knee replacements for osteoarthritis.

Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Ultrasound Case 035

Potentially difficult intubation of man with a receding chin and unusual jaw anatomy. You decide to watch the intubation with ultrasound.

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

ABC of CXR Interpretation

Additional reading from Normal CXRs; Eric Strong Interpretation series; the DRABCDE approach; CXR for the OSCE and of course the Top 150 CXR to try your luck!