Amazing isn’t it? It’s as if the LITFL team can read your mind. You were just thinking, “isn’t about time that an edition of the Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five was dedicated to the subject of flatology?”. Go on, admit it…
Snookered
August 23, 2011 By 7 Comments
A case-based Q&A on the assessment and management of patients presenting with suspected rectal foreign bodies.
Emergency Musical Interlude XXVII
March 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
Gastroenterologist Patricia Raymond takes medicine seriously . . . and herself lightly. The founder of Your Health Choice and Rx For Sanity, known nationally as The Divine Ms. Butt Meddler for her efforts to reduce the stigma often associated with screening colonoscopy. Great to see another physician broadcasting humorously to help see the lighter side of medicine [...]
EBM Oesophagogastric Varices
November 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
EBM review of Oesophagogastric Varices assessment and management in the emergency department
EBM Upper GI Haemorrhage
November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Upper GI Haemorrhage EBM Review. Commonest causes: peptic ulcer (35-50%); oesophagitis (20-30%); duodenitis/gastritis/erosions (10-20%); varices (5-12%); Mallory-Weiss tear (2-5%); tumour (2-5%); angiodysplasia (2-3%); aorto-enteric fistula (<1%).
Emergency Musical Interlude XXIV
September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Ulcer Rap from ZDoggMD. ZDoggMD is hard at work addressing yesterday’s healthcare problems tomorrow, for a better today.
Odentophagia
August 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
Procrastination and Neologisation met in a bar. Eponyms and retrodiction lay idle as they were enveloped by the dankness of stagnant learning, draped in the predilection of Morpheus. They begat an heir ‘Odentophagia’
Faecaloma with cathartic bowel
May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A long-term inpatient from a Psychiatric hospital presents to the Emergency Department with gradual onset of abdominal swelling over four weeks and acute generalised abdominal pain over the last 24 hours.
Corrosive ingestion
May 19, 2010 By 2 Comments
A child has scooped up crystals from a sink and put them in his mouth, resulting in immediate distress. How will you manage this corrosive injury?
Emergency Muscial Interlude XX
March 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and with the experiential lyrics of Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary fame) to lead us, we take a musical stroll through the annals of colorectal musical history…
