The man who blinked too much
The nurse half chuckles and shakes her head as she hands you the next chart. It seems your next patient's main problem is that he can't stop blinking!
An Eyelid Lump
A 28 year-old man presents to the emergency department with a lump on his eyelid. He's getting married in 2 weeks. What are you going to do about it?
Box Jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri)
The box jellyfish is found in tropical Australian waters. Most stings are benign and respond to supportive measures. Severe envenoming has been associated with at least 67 deaths in Australia, the last 12 being children.
The Red Eye Challenge
Things are humming along nicely in the ‘Fast track’ area of the emergency department. You check the triage note of the next patient – RED EYE is written capitals.
Befuddling Pupillary Asymmetry
A medical student on your team asks you to review an 81 year-old female who speaks little English. She was BIBA to the ED following a fall. Her nursing home transfer sheet says that the fall was witnessed: she tripped and there was no loss of consciousness. The student is concerned that the patient’s right pupil is fixed and slightly dilated in the presence of facial abrasions. Facial views have been ordered.
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