A 25 year old man presents to the emergency department with a three day history of spreading rash and painful oral lesions. He has the following observations:
Clinical search in social context
August 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
Blitter is a clinical search engine with content highlighted by clinicians who blog or tweet. If they think it’s important enough to comment on, we consider it great content.
ECG Quiz 033
August 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
A 54 year old man presents to your rural emergency department with chest pain. An initial ECG reveals an inferior STEMI. Fifteen minutes after receiving intravenous thrombolysis the following ECG is taken.
Calligraphitis
August 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
The LITFL team call upon the wider academic cardiological community to fund research into the under-diagnosed conditions of ‘calligraphitis’ or literary heart syndrome and the positive electropenogram
The LITFL Review 030
August 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care.
Investigation Quiz 025
August 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A 30 year old man undergoes a lumbar puncture in the emergency department for investigation of fever, headache and vomiting.
UCEM travel guide
August 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
The UCEM executive have recently relocated from Swarmington-on-the-Wold to the more picturesque setting of Enlightenment Boulevard…but where should we move the non-executive members?
J4G Day 2011
August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This year we created a literary competition “Unzip your Talent” where we invited readers to submit a limerick relating to Jeans for Genes day. I had no idea our readers would find this literary challenge so difficult…we will have to set the bar much lower next year!
Radiology Quiz 031
August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A 23 year old man has been brought to your emergency department after a fall onto his outstretched right hand from a height of three metres.
