Clinical Cases
LITFL Clinical cases Database
The LITFL Clinical Case Collection includes over 250 Q&A style clinical cases to assist ‘Just-in-Time Learning‘ and ‘Life-Long Learning‘. Cases are categorized by specialty and can be interrogated by keyword from the Clinical Case searchable database.
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Topic | Title | |
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ECG | ROSC, hypotension and an ECG exigency | |
ECG | Wide, Complex and Troublesome | WCT, ECG, Broad complex, fascicular, RVOT |
Toxicology | Valproate… Still Big Trouble! | valproate, valproic acid, hyperammonemia |
Toxicology | Valproate… Big Dose, Big Trouble! | valproate, valproic acid, hyperammonemia |
Toxicology | Toxicology Mnemonic Challenge | |
Metabolic | A Most Discombobulating Gas | priapsim, intracavernosal, cavernosal gas, Ischaemic priapism, stuttering priapism, urology |
Metabolic | A Really Tricky ABG | RTA, strong ion difference, hypocalcaemia |
Bone and Joint | An unusual wrist injury | DRUJ, dislcoation |
ICE | Delayed presentation chest pain | wellens, ECG, cardiac, delay |
ICE | Progressive rash and fever | SJS, stevens-johnson syndrome, erythema multiforme, rash |
ICE | Pleuritic pain | pneumothorax |
ICE | Marathon runner develops chest pain | |
ICE | 2 year old with a painful leg | tibia, fracture, toddler, toddler's fracture |
ICE | Tall Story | ECG, EKG, hyperkalaemia, hyperkalemia |
ICE | Skin rash and fever | dengue, returned traveler, traveller |
ICE | Foot trauma | Lisfranc |
ICE | ABG Puzzler | mountain, mount everest, alkalaemia, alkalemia |
ICE | Abdominal pain investigations | pancreatitis, alcohol |
ICE | Knee injury X-ray | segond fracture |
ICE | Collapse ECG | Brugada |
ICE | Chest pain ECG | STEMI, hyperacture, myocardial ischemia, anterior |
ICE | Skin rash legs | eryhthema nodosum, panniculitis |
ICE | Trampoline injury | BOS fracture, battle sign, mastoid ecchymosis, bruising |
ICE | Forearm injury | Galleazi, fracture dislocation |
Toxicology | Why So blue? | methylene blue, Methaemoglobinemia, methemoglobin |
Toxicology | Seizures, Sedation and Saliva | clozapine |
Toxicology | Stuffed, Speeding and Busted! | Methamphetamine, body stuffing, body packer, body stuffer |
Toxicology | Another TCA Overdose! | TCA, tricyclic, overdose, sodium channel blockade |
Toxicology | Alprazoslammed | alprazolam, BZD, benzo, benzodiazepine, benzodiazepines, flumazenil |
Toxicology | Lithium, Vomiting And Diarrhoea | lithium, neurotoxicity, acute toxicity |
Toxicology | Brain Dead? | baclofen, GABA, Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate, GHB |
Toxicology | A Fumbling, Mumbling Mess! | Carbamazepine, toxidrome, carbamazepine cardiotoxicity, Tegretol, multiple-dose activated charcoal, MDAC |
Toxicology | Paracetamol-Induced Hepatotoxicity | Hepatotoxicity, Acetaminophen, Schiodt score, hepatic encephalopathy, N-acetylcysteine, NAC |
Toxicology | Propanolol Overdose | beta-blocker, B Blocker, |
Toxicology | Therapeutic Showering | Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, cyclical vomiting, THC, delta-nine-tetrahydrocannabinol |
Toxicology | A Remorseless Poison | Colchicine |
Toxicology | A Toxic Slumber | Clonidine |
Toxicology | I’m Just Trying To Get Clean Bro’ | Bath salts |
Toxicology | Meow-Meow Mephedrone | Mephedrone |
Toxicology | Life in the TOO fast lane? | Bromo-DragonFLY, M-ket, Kmax, Mexxy, Meow-Meow, Mephedrone, Methoxetamine, Naphyrone, NRG-1, Salvia, K2, Spice |
Toxicology | Paralysis and a head lump | ixodes holocyclus, tick, paralysis, |
Toxicology | Smoking is deadly | cyanide, carbon monoxide |
Toxicology | Hypoglycemia, but how? | hypoglycemia |
Toxicology | Seafood poisoning | Ciguatera, Scombroid, fugu, puffer fish |
Toxicology | Ethylene glycol inebriation | ethylene glycol, HAGMA, high anion gap metabolic acidosis, osmolar gap, Fomepizole, alcohol, ethanol |
Toxicology | The toddler with the Iron gut | iron toxicity, Desferrioxamine chelation therapy |
Toxicology | Chloroquine poisoning | chloroquine |
Toxicology | Corrosive ingestion | corrosive agent |
Toxicology | The Antidote Challenge | Antidote |
Toxicology | Stiff and Twisted | Oculogyric crisis, OGC, acute dystonia, Acute Dystonic Reaction, butyrophenone, Metoclopramide, haloperidol, prochlorperazine, Benztropine |
Toxicology | Two pills can kill | Tricyclic, Theophylline, Sulfonylureas, Propanolol, Opioids, Dextropropoxyphene, Chloroquine, Calcium channel blockers, Amphetamines, ectasy |
Toxicology | Verapamil overdose | verapamil, calcium channel blocker, cardiotoxic, HIET, high-dose insulin euglycemic therapy, |
Toxicology | The ‘sniff a poison’ challenge | aroma, smell |
Toxinology | Snakebite Envenoming Challenge | snake-bite, snake bite, Brown snake, Black, Death adder, Taipan, sea snake, tiger |
Toxicology | Toxidrome Challenge | Anticholinergic syndrome, Malignant hyperthermia, Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, Serotonin toxicity |
Toxicology | Serotonin toxicity | Serotonin toxicity, Serotonin syndrome, toxidrome |
Toxicology | Toxic Seizures | proconvulsive, venlafaxine, tramadol, amphetamines, Bupropion, Otis Campbell |
Toxicology | Tricyclic antidepressant toxicity | TCA, tricyclic, overdose, sodium channel blockade, Amitriptyline |
Toxicology | Supratherapeutic INR | anticoagulation, warfarin |
Toxicology | Chloral hydrate overdose | Mickey Finn, pear, |
Toxicology | Thyroxine overdose | thyrotoxic storm, Thyroxine, T4 |
Toxinology | Necrotic arachnidism? | white-tailed spider, Lampona, L. cylindrata, L. murina |
Toxicology | Citalopram overdose | Citalopram, SSRI, |
Toxicology | Warfarin deliberate self poisoning | warfarin |
Toxicology | Little Johnny and Grandad’s warfarin | warfarin, accidental ingestion, toddler |
Toxicology | Theophylline overdose | |
Toxinology | Lionfish envenoming | Marine, envenoming |
Toxinology | Stingray envenoming | Marine, envenoming, penetrating, barb, steve irwin, |
Toxinology | It was the little octopus! | Marine, envenoming, Blue-Ringed Octopus, BRO, Hapalochlaena |
Toxinology | Chironex fleckeri envenoming | Jellyfish, marine, Chironex fleckeri, Box Jellyfish |
Toxinology | Irukandji Syndrome Territory-style | Jellyfish, marine, Jack Barnes, Carukia barnesi, Irukandji Syndrome, Darwin |
Toxinology | Stung Inside A Stinger Net | Jellyfish, marine, Jack Barnes, Carukia barnesi, Irukandji Syndrome |
Toxicology | Strychnine poisoning | Strychnine, opisthotonus, risus sardonicus |
Toxicology | Suboxone poisoning | naloxone, Buprenorphine |
Toxinology | Snakebite or Stickbite? | snake-bite, snake bite, SVDK |
Toxinology | Is this a RedBack I see before me? | Red back spider, redback, envenoming, RBS |
Toxinology | Bitten by a Redback Spider | Red back spider, redback, envenoming, RBS |
Toxicology | Poisoning by a mercury thermometer | |
Toxicology | Paracetamol…too much, too often? | Acetaminophen, N-acetylcysteine, NAC |
Pediatric | Henoch-Schonlein Purpura, HSP, Henoch-Schönlein | |
Pediatric | adrenal insufficiency, glucocorticoid deficiency, NAGMA, endocrine emergency | |
Pediatric | Penile Zipper Entrapment, foreskin, release, Zip | |
Pediatric | diarrohea, vomiting, hypokalemia, hypokalaemia, dehydration | |
Pediatric | infantile colic, TIM CRIES, crying baby | |
Pediatric | Pyloric stenosis, projectile vomit, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, HPS, Rankin | |
Pediatric | respiratory distress, wheeze, foreign body, RMB, CXR, right main bronchus | |
Pediatric | airway obstruction, stridor, severe croup, harsh cough, heliox, intubation, sevoflurane | |
Pediatric | boot-shaped, TOF, coeur en sabot, Tetralogy of Fallot | |
Pediatric | Spherocytes, Shistocytes, Polychromasia, reticulocytosis, anemia, anaemia, hemolytic uremic syndrome, HUS | |
Pediatric | Reye syndrome, ammonia, metabolic encephalopathy, aspirin | |
Pediatric | Ketamine, procedural sedation, pediatric sedation | |
Pediatric | Foreign Body, ketamine, laryngospasm, Larson's point, laryngospasm notch | |
EYE | ophthalmology, eye trauma, Eyelid laceration, lacrimal punctum | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Retrobulbar hemorrhage, haemorrhage, RAPD, lateral canthotomy, DIP-A CONE-G, cantholysis | |
EYE | ophthalmology, corneal abrasion, eye trauma, eyelid eversion | |
EYE | ophthalmology, commotio retinae, eye trauma, traumatic eye injury | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Traumatic iritis, hyphaema, hyphema, | |
EYE | ophthalmology, lens dislocation, Anterior dislocation of an intraocular lens | |
EYE | ophthalmology, visual loss, loss of vision , blind | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Central retinal vein occlusion, CRVO, branch retinal vein occlusion, BRVO | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Central retinal artery occlusion, CRAO, cherry red spot, Branch retinal artery occlusion, BRAO | |
EYE | ophthalmology, miosis, partial ptosis, anhidrosis, enophthalmos, horner | |
EYE | ophthalmology, visual loss, Amaurosis fugax, TIA, transient ischemic attack | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Pre-septal cellulitis, preseptal cellulitis, peri-orbital cellulitis, Post-septal cellulitis, post septal cellulitis, orbital cellulitis | |
EYE | ophthalmology, AION, giant cell arteritis, GCA, Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Herpes simplex keratitis, dendritic ulcer | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Conjunctival injection, conjunctivitis, keratoconjunctivitis, Adenovirus, trachoma, bacterial, viral, Parinaud oculoglandular conjunctivitis | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Chemical injury, cement, alkali, burn, chemical conjunctivitis, colliquative necrosis, liquefactive | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Ultraviolet keratitis, keratopathy, solar keratitis, photokeratitis, welder's flash, arc eye, bake eyes snow blindness. | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Parinaud, adie, holmes, tabes dorsalis, neurosyphylis, argyll Robertson, small irregular | |
EYE | ophthalmology, anterior Uveitis, HLA-B27, hypopyon | |
EYE | ophthalmology, POCUS, ONSD, | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Blowout fracture, infraorbital fracture | |
EYE | ophthalmology, endophthalmitis, sympathetic ophthalmia, penetrating eye trauma | |
EYE | ophthalmology, tobacco dust, Posterior vitreous detachment, vitreous debris, retinal tear, retinal break, Washer Machine Sign, Eales disease | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Herpes zoster ophthalmicus, dendriform keratitis, Hutchinson sign | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Siedel, FB, rust ring, Corneal foreign body, Seidel test | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Papilloedema, Papilledema, pseudopapilloedema | |
EYE | ophthalmology, optic disc, optic neuritis, Marcus-Gunn, papillitis, multiple sclerosis, funduscopy, optic atrophy, papilledema | |
EYE | ophthalmology, retinal break, POCUS, retinoschisis, Retinal detachment | |
EYE | ophthalmology, cupping, glaucoma, optic neuropathy, tonometry, intraocular pressure, open angle, closed angle, gonioplasty, Acute closed-angle glaucoma | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Subconjunctival hemorrhage | |
EYE | ophthalmology, Meibomitis, blepharitis, entropion, ectropion, canaliculitis, dacryocystitis | |
EYE | ophthalmology, blepharospasm, blink, blinking | |
EYE | Iritis, keratitis, acute angle-closure glaucoma, scleritis, orbital cellulitis, cavernous sinus thrombosis (CST) | |
EYE | ophthalmology, fixed, dilated, pupil, holmes-adie, glass eye | |
ECG | Wenckebach, AV block, SA, deliberate mistake, SA block | |
ECG | dual chamber AV sequential pacemaker | |
ECG | anterior AMI, De Winter T waves, LAD stenosis | |
ECG | LMCA Stenosis, ST elevation in aVR, Left Main Coronary Artery | |
ECG | LMCA, Left Main Coronary Artery Occlusion, ST elevation in aVR | |
ECG | VT, BCT, WCT, Brugada criteria, Verekie | |
ECG | severe hypokalaemia, spironalactone, rhabdomyolysis, ECG, u wave, diabetic ketoacidosis | |
ECG | pacing, pacemaker, post-op, Mobitz I, Wenckebach, AV block | |
ECG | bidirectional ventricular tachycardia, Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, CPVT, digoxin toxicity | |
ECG | congenital, short QT syndrome, SQTS, AF, Atrial fibrillation | |
ECG | RVOT, broad complex tachycardia, BCT, Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Tachycardia, VF, Arrest, Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, ARVC | |
ECG | NSTEMI, inverted U wave, | |
ECG | tricyclic antidepressant, TCA, Doxepin, QRS broadening, cardiotoxic | |
ECG | AIVR, Accelerated idioventricular rhythm, Isorhythmic AV dissociation, Sinus arrhythmia, idioventricular | |
ECG | LAD, LBBB, High left ventricular voltage, HLVV, WPW, Broad Complex Tachycardia | |
ECG | tachy-brady, AVNRT, flutter, polymorphic VT, VF, torsades de pointes, R on T, Cardioversion | |
ECG | LBBB, Wellens, ECG, proximal LAD, occlusion, rate-dependent, inferior ischaemia | |
ECG | SI QIII TIII, PE, PTE pulmonary embolism, PEA arrest, RBBB, LAD | |
Cardiology | HOCM, STE, aVR, LMCA, torsades des pointes. TDP | |
Cardiology | aortic arch, right sided, diverticulum of Kommerell | |
Cardiology | IABP, CABG, shock, circulatory collapse | |
Cardiology | electrical alternans, ECG, pulsus paradoxus | |
Cardiology | Intra-aortic Balloon Pump, Waveform, dicrotic notch | |
Cardiology | DeBakey, TAA, aortic dissection, CTA | |
Cardiology | Tetraology of Fallot, BT shunt, Blalock-Tausig, ToF | |
Cardiology | PVP, cement, embolus, Percutaneous Vertebroplasty | |
Cardiology | Pulmonary Embolism, PTE, PE, McConnell, thrombolysis, echo | |
Bone and Joint | Missed posterior shoulder dislocation | |
Paediatrics | rash, neck nodule, Kawasaki | |
Paediatrics | rash, fever, scarlet, strawberry, Group A Beta Haemolytic Streptococci (GABHS) | |
Tropical Travel | diphtheria, pseudomembrance, grey tonsils, pseudomembrane, tonsillitis, diphtheria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, gram-positive bacillus | |
Urinalysis | purple, urine, indican, indican | |
Urinalysis | brown, urine, rhabdomyolysis | |
Urinalysis | green, urine, propofol, PRIS | |
Urinalysis | green, urine | |
Urinalysis | orange, urine | |
Bone and Joint | Nail, trauma, hematoma, subungual, haematoma, nail-bed | |
Bone and Joint | Extensor tendon, hand injury, extensor digiti minimi, | |
Bone and Joint | Thumb, fracture, base, phalanx, metacarpal, Edward Hallaran Bennett, bipartate | |
Paediatrics | Food allergy, enterocolitis, | |
Bone and Joint | FOOSH, wrist fracture, FOOSH - 'fall onto outstretched hand', Barton fracture, John Rhea Barton | |
Paediatrics | pulled elbow, nursemaid, hyperpronation | |
Cardiology | Phlegmasia, dolens | |
Cardiology | ICC, intercostal, intra-cardiac, iatrogenic | |
Bone and Joint | Compartment syndrome, Volkmann, fasciotomy | |
Bone and Joint | Ankle, compound, fracture, dislocation, Six Hour Golden Rule, saline, iodine | |
ENT | retropharngeal abscess, posterior pharynx, mediastinitis, Lemierre syndrome, Fusobacterium necrophorum | |
ENT | enlarged tonsils, pharyngitis, tonsillitis | |
Toxicology | Mistaken Identity | Colgout, colchicine, label, fenofibrate |
Tropical Travel | Fever, Abdominal pain, Constipation and Mary | Mary Mallon, Salmonella typhi, typhoid, typhoid mary |
Tropical Travel | Fever Arthralgia and Rash | Dengue Fever, single-stranded RNA virus, Aedes, mosquito, Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS), Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) |
Tropical Travel | Humongous HIV extravaganza | AIDS, Human immunodeficiency virus, lentivirus, anti-retroviral, |
Tropical Travel | Total TB extravaganza | tuberculosis |
Tropical Travel | Mega Malaria extravaganza | Falciparum, Vivax, Ovale, Malariae, Knowlesi, Plasmodium |
Tropical Travel | Bristol Stool Type VII | cholera, gram-negative comma-shaped bacillus, rice water stool, John Snow Pump, V. cholerae, vibrio |
Tropical Travel | RUQ pain and jaundice | Entamoeba histolytica, protozoan parasite, Amoebic dysentery, Flask Shaped amoebic trophozoite, Bloody stool, |
Tropical Travel | Bloody diarrhoea | shigellosis, Shigella, Enterotoxin, dysentery, |
Tropical Travel | Stiff in the mouth | Tetanus, Tetanispasmin, Clostridium tetani, lock jaw, Opisthotonus, Autonomic dysfunction, toxoid |
Tropical Travel | Frothing Mad | Rabies Immunoglobulin |
Tropical Travel | Fever, Rash and a Vuvuzela | Koplik, measles, rash, rubeola, Morbilivirus, |
Trauma | Trauma Under Pressure | permissive hypotension, MBA, MVA, widened mediastinum, pleural effusion, ICC |
Trauma | What Weingart would do II | knife, penetrating chest wound |
Trauma | What Weingart would do? | knife, penetrating chest wound |
Trauma | Trauma! Major Burns | TBSA %, Burns Wound Assessment, Total Body Surface Area |
Trauma | Trauma! Extremity Arterial Hemorrhage | Arterial pressure index (API), DPI (Doppler Pressure Index), Arterial Brachial Index or Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) |
Trauma | Trauma! Extremity Injuries | crush injury, degloving, deglove, amputation |
Trauma | Hip and Pelvis Injuries | hip dislocation, Allis reduction, pelvic fracture |
Trauma | Trauma! Pelvic Fractures I | Pelvis fracture, stabilization, stabilisation, |
Trauma | Trauma! Pelvic Fractures II | pelvic stabilization, Pelvis fracture, stabilisation, Pre-peritoneal packing |
Trauma | Trauma! Massive Transfusion | massive transfusion protocol, Recombinant Factor VIIa, Thromboelastography (TEG) |
Trauma | Trauma! Major Haemorrhage | Critical bleeding, hemorrhagic shock, haemorrhagic shock, lethal triad, acute coagulopathy of trauma |
Trauma | Trauma! Penetrating Abdominal Injury | penetrating abdominal trauma |
Trauma | Trauma! Blunt Abdominal Trauma Decision Making | |
Trauma | Little Wound, Long Knife | penetrating chest trauma wound, stab, |
Trauma | It’s not a bird or a plane… | Right Main Bronchus, RMB, Tracheostomy, Tooth, foreign Body |
Trauma | Another complication of facial trauma | Lobar collapse, aspiration, blood clot |
Trauma | A bashed head | |
Trauma | A Fiendish Finding | Traumatic rupture of the diaphragm with strangulation of viscera |
Trauma | Roman Breastplate | eschar, burns, full thickness, |
Trauma | Trauma and Pregnancy | supine hypotension syndrome |
Trauma | Trauma and Pregnancy Redux | |
Trauma | A Motorcyclist’s Irreparable Injury | iPhone |
Trauma | High Pressure-Injection Injury | oleoma, lipogranuloma, |
Trauma | Hot lips | oral commissure, lingual artery hemorrhage, |
Trauma | Microwave Meltdown | polymer fume fever, dielectric heating, super-heating, thermal injury |
Trauma | Adding insult to injury? | DRE, Digital rectal exam examination trauma |
Trauma | Trauma! Are you prepared? | Injury Severity score, ISS, golden hour, seatbelt sign |
Trauma | Trauma! Initial Assessment and Management | primary secondary survey |
Trauma | Trauma! Traumatic Brain Injury | extradural hemorrhage, EDH, Monro-Kellie |
Trauma | Trauma! Spinal Injury | |
Trauma | Trauma! Chest Injuries I | |
Trauma | Trauma! Chest Injuries II | |
Trauma | Trauma! Assessing the Abdomen | |
Trauma | Trauma! Abdominal Injuries | |
Trauma | Trauma! Genitourinary Injuries | GU, trauma, penis, penile, urethra, bladder, rupture |
Pulmonary | Not just pneumonia | swine flu, pneumomediastinum, CXR |
Pulmonary | Not just a PE | Thrombocytopenia, antiphospholipid syndrome |
Pulmonary | Roast duck and juniper beer | Hermann Boerhaave, Boerhaave syndrome, esophagus rupture, oesophagus |
Pulmonary | Pneumonia gone bad | |
Pulmonary | Pulmonary panic | pneumococcal pneumonia, HIV, bronchoscope, anatomy, RMB |
Pulmonary | Ballooning Up | subcutaneous emphysema, FLAAARDS, |
Pulmonary | A Case of CO2 Narcosis | respiratory acidosis, hypercapnoea |
Pulmonary | Rapid descent | hypersensivity pneumonitis, diffuse alveolar haemorrhage, alveolar infiltrates |
Pulmonary | Collapse and recruit | Lung collapse, recruitment maneuver, bronchoscopy |
Pulmonary | Extraordinary Cries | Vocal cord dysfunction, VCD, paradoxical vocal cord motion, PVCM, posterior chinking |
Pulmonary | Is resistance futile? | pneumococcus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, penicillin-resistant |
Pulmonary | Man versus Machine | DOPES, |
Pulmonary | Bronchospastic BP Badness | asthma |
Pulmonary | Alarmingly high pressures | dyssynchrony, mechanical ventilation, PEEP, Plateau pressure |
Pulmonary | Puffed Post-Tracheostomy | pneumomediastinum, tracheostomy, trachy, complication |
Pulmonary | Puzzling out the PERC rule | PERC rule, D-Dimer, Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria, HAD CLOTS, |
Pulmonary | Above the clouds | AMS, acute mountain sickness, high altitude, High-altitude cerebral edema, HACE, HAPE, High-altitude pulmonary edema |
Pulmonary | Pulmonary Embolus pondering | |
Resus | He Simply Looks Sick | Pulseless electrical activity, PEA |
Resus | Seizing and No Access | intraosseous access, EZ-IO, |
Resus | Choose Your Own Resus Adventure | |
Resus | Does Roc rock? Does Sux suck? | Rocuronium, suxamethonium, succinylcholine, non-depolarising muscle relaxant, sugammadex, safe apnoea time |
Resus | Own the FEAST | FEAST, trial, research, pediatric, fluid resuscitation |
Resus | To thoracotomy, or not to thoracotomy? | |
Resus | Own the Airway | |
Resus | Own the oxygen | |
Resus | Own the chest tube | ICC, intercostal |
Resus | Own the Oxylog | Mechanical ventilation |
Oncology | From the Hip | SVC obstruction |
Oncology | Troubling Lab Strife | Tumour lysis syndrome, Tumor lysis syndrome |
Oncology | CannonBalls | lung metastases braine mets testicular cancer BEP chemotherapy, Cannonball metastases |
Oncology | Pulmonary Re-expansion | re-expansion pulmonary oedema edema |
Metabolic | Could it be renal colic? | abdominal aortic aneurysm, AAA, rupture, CT, rhabdomyolysis, creatine kinase |
Metabolic | Waxing and Waning Weakness | hypokalemia, hypokalaemia, periodic paralysis, u wave |
Metabolic | Metabolic Mayhem and a Headache | CATMUDPILES, OGRE, NAGMA, HAGMA, USED CARP, hyperchloraemic metabolic acidosis |
Metabolic | Staph Sepsis Acidosis | anion gap, pyroglutamic acidemia, HAGMA, high-anion gap, high anion, 5-oxoprolinemia, γ-glutamyl cycle, staph aureus, sepsis |
Metabolic | Hypernatraemia and Acidosis | HAGMA, high-anion gap, high anion, hypernatraemia, hypernatremia |
Metabolic | You can beat the feeling | hypokalaemia, hypokalemia, potassium, systemic bromism, coke, pepsi, coca-cola |
Metabolic | CATMUDPILES | CATMUDPILES, renal failure, HAGMA, LTKR |
Metabolic | Pregnant and Acidotic | |
Metabolic | Young and Yellow | acute hepatitis, arterial blood gas, fulminant hepatic failure, lactic acidosis, lactic acidosis with hypoglycaemia, metabolic acidosis, metabolic muddle |
Metabolic | Ammon Anyone? | hyperammonaemia, hyperammonemia |
Metabolic | Exercise-associated Hyponatremia | Hyponatraemia, hypertonic saline, ultramarathon, runner, EAH, pontine myelinoysis |
Metabolic | Hyponatraemic Seizures | Hyponatraemia, hypertonic saline, pontine myelinoysis, Osmolality, desmopressin, SIADH, syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuretic hormone secretion |
Gastrointestinal | Appendagitis | Appendagitis, Epiploic, Abdominal pain, CT abdomen |
Gastrointestinal | Gordian knot? | CT abdomen, Small bowel obstruction, SBO |
Gastrointestinal | A Lesson in History | cathine, cathione, khat, hepatitis, cathionine |
Gastrointestinal | Snookered | rectal foreign body, FB |
Gastrointestinal | Gut under pressure | abdominal compartment syndrome, intra-abdominal pressure, intra-abdominal hypertension, IAH, ACS |
Hematology | D-dimer debacles | fibrinolytic, VTE, Wells, PERC |
Hematology | Recombinant Factor VIIa | factor VIIa, rFVIIa, novoseven |
Hematology | The Critical Bleeder | Critical Bleeding, Massive Transfusion, Tranexamic Acid, TxA, MTP |
Hematology | Dissociated Oxygen Saturations | Dyshemoglobinemia, Acute myeloid leukemia, AML |
Immunological | Traumatic Angioedema | angiodema, angioedema, lip sweliing |
Immunological | Sulfa Drug Discombobulation | frusemide, furosemide, lasix, sulfa, |
Immunological | Palpable Excitement | wegener, GPA, granulomatosis, palpable purpura |
Obstetric | Obstetric Bleeder | amniotic fluid embolism, DIC, obstetric complication, disseminated intravascular coagulation, schistocytes, |
Microbial | Gram Negative Diplococci | CSF, Meningococcal meningitis, |
Microbial | Pneumococcal pneumonia | fulminant bacterial pneumonia, septic shock, Pneumococcus, Streptococcus pyogenes, urinary pneumococcal antigen, |
Microbial | CAP Challenge! | Legionella, community acquired pneumonia |
Microbial | Sick, Shocked and Sunburned? | Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome, Toxic-shock syndrome |
Microbial | Escaping bugs | |
Microbial | Fever in a spinal patient | |
Microbial | The perfect human pathogen? | Norovirus |
Toxicology | Toxicology Mnemonic Challenge | Coma, similie, metaphor, flashcard, toxidromes, anticholinergic, cholinergic, PHAILS, OTIS CAMPBELL, PACED, FAST, COOLS, CT SCAN |
Neurology | HIV brain mass | HIV, Mass effect, CNS lesion, Brain lesion |
Neurology | Coma with small pupils | pancoast, argyll robertson, holmes-adie, coma, pinpoint, pin-point, horner syndrome |
Neurology | Brainstem lesions | rule of 4, rules of four, brainstem, weber syndrome, wallenberg |
Neurology | Rules of 4 | rule of 4, rules of four, brainstem, Nothnagel syndrome, benedikt, claude, |
Neurology | Bulbar palsies | |
Neurology | Coma in a spinal patient | |
Neurology | Eye movements | |
Neurology | Look left, look right | Unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia, medial longitudinal fasciculus, MLF, INO, one-and-a-half syndrome |
Neurology | Bullet in the Head | GSW, gunshot wound, bullet, TBI, Codman ICP monitor, Trans-cranial doppler, Near-infrared spectroscopy, NIRS, cerebral microdialysis catheter |
Neurology | Ballistically Potent Vertigo | BPPV, Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, Dix-Hallpike test, semont, epley, dix hallpike, brandt-daroff |
Neurology | Medically Cleared | Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, teratoma |
To err is human | Entrapped | cognitive error, bias, entrapment |
To err is human | Are you Satisficed? | rule of thumb, heuristic, satisficing, cognitive bias, metacognition |
To err is human | A Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine A Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine II | Anchoring Bias, confirmation, satisficing, clustering bias |
Cardiology | No Radial Pulse | |
Paediatric | Neonatal Diversion | pediatric |
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