An 58 year old intravenous drug user presents several days after attempting to inject in to the back of his hand. There is a fluctuant red hot swelling over the dorsum of the hand and wrist and you are asked whether this is a tendon sheath collection.
Animal attacks really aren't that bad after all. At least, not according to the CDC WONDER database. When you take 9 years of data from said database, you get a whopping 1802 deaths. That comes out to just a hair over 200 deaths per year.
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 263.
Here is the 14th update to the Critical Care Compendium, your LITFL guide to the core and not-so-core knowledge base required of a critical care physician.
It is 8am and a 72 year old male is brought in by the paramedics. The patient is sitting upright, sweaty, and in severe respiratory distress.
One for all the ED Nurses out there: The triage game is really toughYou tell us your story and woeful stuffWe listen an take in your ridiculous guffYoull get category 5 which is really rough.There’s a chest pain inside whose…
Interview with Michael O’Leary – Dealing with the frustrations of the changing ICU landscape (SG-ANZICS special episode) Our ICUs might be growing larger in size but there seem to be the same number of very sick patients to care for…
Heat stroke can kill. This isn’t debatable. And mortality is linked to duration of hyperthermia. Thus, prehospital treatment of heat stroke improves mortality.
The latest update of major additions and revisions to the Critical Care Compendium. Topics featured include: driving pressure, PEA, sepsis definitions, sepsis biomarkers, procalcitonin, as well as open chest and delayed sternal closure.
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a syndrome of pathologic immune activation characterized by clinical signs and symptoms of extreme inflammation
A 70 year old man presented with acute urinary retention. Insertion is difficult and ultrasound is used to ensure the catheter reaches the bladder before it is inflated.
Clinicians mostly know about venom extractors and why they don’t work, this hasn’t trickled down to the lay public unfortunately.