September 8, 2010

Clinical Cases

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Clinical Cases and Conundrums

Case ID	Diagnosis/ topic	Category
Administrative Adversity		Administration
Anesthetic Addler	1) Nasal foreign body, ketamine sedation, laryngospasm	Anaesthesia Sedation Pain Medicine
Bone & Joint Bamboozler	1) Compound Fractures 2) Muscular claustrophobia 3) Volar Barton Fracture 4) Bennett Fracture 5) Transcaphoid perilunate fracture	Orthopedics Rheumatology
Cardiovascular Curveball	1) Intercostal tube, misplaced in left ventricle 2) Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens 3) Cardiac arrest, R-on-T, HOCM and Hypokalaemia 4) Right-sided aortic arch 5) Intra-aortic balloon pump, overview 6) Pericardial tamponade, electrical alternans and pulsus parodoxus 7) Intra-aortic balloon pump, trouble-shooting 8. Aortic Dissection 9) Tetralogy of Fallot, Blalock-Tausig shunt 10) Cement Embolism	Cardiology
Dealing with Disaster		Disaster medicine
Dicing with Dislocations	1) Isolated Volar Ulna Dislocation 2) Shoulder Dislocation: Posterior and Don't be distracted... 3) Sternoclavicular Dislocation 4) Lunate Dislocation and Scapho-lunate dissociation 5) Elbow Dislocation 6) Patella dislocation	Dislocation Orthopedic Surgery
Dermatology Dilemma		Dermatology
ENT Equivocation		Otorhinolaryngology Maxillofacial surgery
Environmental Enigma	1) High altitude illness	Environmental Medicine Wilderness Medicine
Ethical Angst		Medical ethics
Evidence-based Esoterica		Evidence-based medicine Research Statistics
Gastrointestinal Gutwrencher	1) Epiploic appendagitis	Gastroenterology, GI surgery Hepatobiliary disease Nutrition
Hematology Hoodwinker		Haematology
Immunological Discombobulation	1) Traumatic Angioedema	Immunology
Laboratory Tester	1) HAGMA due to renal failure 2) Rhabdomyolysis after AAA repair	Biochemistry Laboratory medicine
Metabolic Muddle	1) Hyperammonaemia 2) Hypokalemic periodic paralysis 3) Pyroglutamic acidosis 4) Diabetic ketoacidosis	Metabolic Endocrinology
Microbial Mystery	1) Meningococcal meningitis 2) Pneumococcal pneumonia 3) Community Acquired Pneumonia in adults 4) ESCPPM and cephalosporin resistance	Infectious disease Microbiology Parasitology
Neurological Mind-boggler	1) HIV brain mass 2) Coma with small pupils 3) Brainstem lesions 1 4) Brainstem lesions 2	Neurology Neurosurgery
OB/GYN Obfuscation		Obstetrics Gynecology Women's health
Oncology Quandary	1) Hemithoracic "white-out" small blue round cell tumour 3) Testicular cancer, metastatic 3) Ovarian cancer, re-expansion pulmonary oedema	Oncology
Ophthalmology Befuddler	001 Prosthetic eye, Holmes-Adie pupil 002 The Red Eye Challenge 003 Chalazion and Hordeolum 004 Blepharospasm 005 Blepharitis, Meibomitis, Dacryocystitis 006 Subconjunctival hemorrhage 007 Glaucoma 008 Retinal Detachment 009 Optic Neuritis, Papilloedema and Optic Nerve Atrophy 010 Corneal Foreign Body 011 Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus 012 Vitreous Detachment and Hemorrhage 013 Penetrating Eye Trauma 014 Orbital (blowout) fractures 015 The Ocular Ultrasound Challenge 016 Uveitis 017 Argyll Robertson Pupils 018 UV keratopathy 019 Chemical Eye Injury	Ophthalmology
Pediatric Perplexity	1) Reye Syndrome 2) Hemolytic uremic syndrome, atypical 3) Tet spells (hypercyanotic episodes in Fallot's Tetralogy) 4) Airway obstruction and intubation in a toddler 5) Foreign body in the lower airways	Pediatrics
Prehospital Predicament	-	Prehospital Retrieval medicine
Psychiatric Brainteaser	-	Psychiatry Mental Health
Pulmonary Puzzle	1) Swine-origin infuenza A (H1N1 2009) 2) Pulmonary Embolism and Antiphospholipid Syndrome 3) Ruptured Oesophagus 4) S. pyogenes pneumonia complicating Swine Flu 5) Re-expansion pulmonary oedema 6) Ruptured oesophagus 7) Type 2 respiratory failure with coma 8. Type 1 respiratory failure 9) Lung collapse in traumatic brain injury	Respiratory
Radiological Oddities	1) Externalization 2) Pneumocardium 3) Neurofibromatosis 4) Plombage 5) Rugae 6) Teratoma AXR 8. The Dark Knight 9) Wild x-rays 10) Top 10 Foreign Body X-rays 11) Faecoma 13) Smuggler 14) Widen your field of vision 15) ECMO for FLAARDS XR 17) Urethral foreign body XR 18) PICC line CT	Radiology
Renal Riddle	1) Aortic aneurysm and rhabdomyolysis	Renal
Surgical Stumper	-	General surgery
To Err Is Human	001 Entrapment 002 Search satisficing and premature closure	Patient Safety Decision-making Medical Error
Toxicology Conundrum	Collection of Toxicology Conundrums	Toxicology Toxinology Drug Abuse
Trauma Tribulation	1) Right Main Bronchus Tooth 2) Blood clot occluding right upper lobe bronchus 3) Traumatic Brain Injury 4) Diaphragmatic rupture 5) Escharotomy	Trauma
Tropical Can-of-Worms	-	Tropical medicine
Unusual Urine	Urinary Rainbow 1) Orange urine, rifampicin 2) Green urine, creme de menthe 3) Green urine, Propofol Infusion Syndrome	Urine Renal
Venereal Vexation	-	Sexual health Genitourinary medicine