Bronchospastic Blood Pressure Badness

Oxygen

A young man has been intubated for severe asthma. Now his blood pressure is heading for the floor. What are you going to do about it? Think you can save a life?

Hosting Medical Grand Rounds

GrandRounds

It is with great honor (and a lot of trepidation) that LITFL will be hosting Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 45 on August 3rd 2010.

Condom Inhalation

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With the Flu season upon us the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine (UCEM) would like to remind all fondling members of their duty to take a full and appropriate past medical history. This includes a past sexual history…

Banana Memories

banana

The associations that populate our minds are wonderful things. To what thoughts does your mind race on contemplation of this banana, I wonder?

Donning the Crocheted Scrubs

funny old lady

I run a successful business. I have 3 children. I have lots of wonderful friends. We still rent our house, but all in all, we do OK. You could say, I am pretty put together. Now I am off to study medicine!

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 023

kuro

Yay…it’s Friday. Time to challenge that cerebral cortex and put on those ‘mental’ dancing shoes as we trip the light fantastic of medical trivia, and lift the latch on the cage of the tiger of tease…the Funtabulously, Frivolous Friday Five…

Gut ache or Gordian knot?

paraduodenal hernia

A 29 year-old man has recurrent abdominal pain. Can you make the diagnosis where others have failed?

7 Links for Bloggers Challenge Redux

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Having seen Mike (@sandnsurf) fearlessly reach for the gauntlet thrown down by @problogger, it seems remiss for me to not do the same. Let’s see what this exercise in intrablogorific reflection uncovers….

Man versus Machine

manvsmachine

A patient develops hypoxia soon after intubation. Where lies the problem? Is it man or machine?

Football Medic Saves the Day

The humble medic is often a forgotten cast member in the theatre of sport. Sometimes, however, the medic’s presence is invaluable. Here is but one example.