Ultrasound Case 038
A 46 year old woman presents with relatively sudden painless visual field loss. She describes preceding flashers and floaters, and then a shadow falling over the medial and central part of her visual field.
Use hematoma blocks for wilderness anesthesia
You’re on a simple hiking expedition and suddenly a member of the group takes a wrong step on the trail and collapses in pain. You examine them carefully and discover a gnarly ankle fracture-dislocation. It’s a bit of a walk back…
CCC Update 008
The latest update on what is new in LITFL's Critical Care Compendium... number eight!
Ultrasound Case 037
60 y/o man with 3 days suprapubic pain; 'pelvic ache' on urination; suprapubic tenderness and guarding on examination; and leukocytes in the urine. You are considering just treating as a urinary tract infection but the degree of tenderness makes you take a look with ultrasound.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 100
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF, introducing the Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 100 – Getting Old Question 1 What…
Femoral traction splints, helpful or not?
Femoral Traction Splints in Mountain Rescue Prehospital Care: To Use or Not to Use? That Is the Question
CCC Update 007
All that is recent, revised and reviewed in LITFL's Critical Care Compendium (CCC).
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 262
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 262.
Ultrasound Case 036
A 45 year old man falls off his son's skateboard. He describes a sudden pain in the back of his calf and now has some swelling and clinically you suspect Achilles tendon rupture.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 093
Flying corpses, drug-fuelled orgies and things that go squish in the night: there is a distinctive buzz about this week's Funtabulously Frivolous Flyday.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 096
“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Fair enough, we all love messing about in boats. But - smearing honey on orifices? Experimenting on nuns? Squeezing fish?
If you don’t use it, you lose it
It’s a common perception that “book knowledge” does not give on the ability to perform skills. People can answer the questions correctly on a test, but not do the right thing in a real life scenario. For the practical component…