The malaria disease is caused by a Plasmodium protozoal parasite, post proboscis penetration by an infected Anopheles mosquito. Here we discuss Malaria vaccine
What is Orf?
November 4, 2011 By 4 Comments
Orf is a zoonotic infection occurring in humans which is characterised by erythematous weeping nodules found most commonly on the hands and feet
Click on this link now!
September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Do you work in an emergency department? Or maybe in an ICU? Or perhaps the prehospital environment? Regardless, of where you look after critically ill patients you MUST click on this LINK now! What will you find there? Two things: The first part of a talk by ‘Early Goal Directed Therapy’ legend Dr Manny Rivers on [...]
Fruitaryan payback
June 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
At long last there has been a truly European epidemic, or ‘Eurodemic’ (an outbreak of truly EU-ge proportions), to use a term originally coined by Broughton-D’Lirium.
The LITFL Review 021
May 30, 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.
A New Threat Tied in to Intensive Care
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Environmental selection pressures are a driving force in the adaptive processes driving adaptive processes in organisms.
Back From the Dead
April 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Back from the Dead highlights the fascinating documentary by Dr Kevin Fong investigating a pioneering technique of extreme cooling that is being used to bring people back from the dead.
The LITFL Review 013
April 5, 2011 By 6 Comments
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.
Emergency Musical Interlude XXVI
March 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Four R Rule
December 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It would be fascinating to run a fly-on-the-wall documentary on life at trolley level in a local Emergency Department. When you’ve been there, done it and survived to watch TV again, the dramatised version served up in your average medical soap is about as true to life as Harry Potter. Someone will just have to come up with ED-trolleycam. The MicroGnome was left under no illusions when struck down with a travel-related infection following a week with the Lab Without Walls in East Timor. He became a victim of the Four R Rule:
