Trauma! Extremity Arterial Hemorrhage
A man has been stabbed in the arm and it's a gusher. This case-based Q&A covers the assessment and management of severe arterial hemorrhage from extremity trauma.
Trauma! Major Burns
The latest trauma tribulation by John Larkin on the emergency assessment and management of major burns.
What Weingart would do?
Trauma in the ER with no back-up: a knife in the back. To pull or not to pull.... What would you do? Or better yet, what would Weingart do?
What Weingart would do II
Trauma in the ER with no back-up: To pull or not to pull.... We find out what Weingart would do, and the outcome of this sphincter-tightening trauma tribulation.
Trauma Under Pressure
A young man is fighting for his life following a motorcycle accident. Can you save the day in this, the 34th LITFL case-based Q&A trauma tribulation?
Do air pockets help avalanche survival?
The theoretical is obvious. If you have an air pocket you can breathe into after an avalanche, you should survive longer than if you don’t. This study intended to ascertain if this was true, as their hypothesis was that air…
Pediatric Procedural Sedation with Ketamine
A Question and Answer review of Paediatric Sedation In The Emergency Department. Ketamine and ketamine sedation
Nasal foreign body
A case-based Q-and-A on procedural sedation using ketamine to remove a button battery from a child's nose. What if laryngospasm occurs?
Horrible Spots and Pain
A 4 year-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his parents with a history of increasing numbers of red spots on his legs over the past 6 days.
Weak and vomiting: an endocrine emergency
A 6 year-old boy presents with 5 days of vomiting. He is drowsy, lethargic and is now too weak to walk. What's going on?
Zany Zipper
A 6-year old boy presents to ED in agony after entrapping his penis in the zipper of his new jeans. Do you have the skills to set him free?
Ds and Vs, and can’t stand up
A 5 year old boy presents vomiting and diarrhoea. He is very weak, to the point where he's been having trouble standing up. hypokalemia