A 62 yo lady presents to the ER after opening a package containing a coat bought online from Uzbekistan. After trying it on, she immediately feels pain in her left hand. She shakes the coat, and out crawls…
Toxicology Handbook, 2nd Edition
January 18, 2011 By 3 Comments
For a forthright review of the Toxicology Handbook 2nd edition, the LITFL team turned to an esteemed emergency medicine educator, Dr Trevor Jackson.
MicroGnomic Marine Envenoming
September 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
Paralysis and a head lump
September 23, 2010 By 4 Comments
A 5 year old girl is unable to walk and is becoming progressively weaker. She also complained of a lump on her head. Can you make the diagnosis?
Getting into hot water
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The Venomous Art of Spitting
May 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Some of the cobras are venom spitters. Targeting the eyes of their enemies they can cause a chemical conjunctivitis and blindness. How do they do this?
Chironex fleckeri envenoming
April 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
Case-based question-and-answers on a near fatal box jellyfish sting. Can you save the day?
Legless Lizard?
February 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
If you go to enough talks on snakebite envenoming you’ll be familiar with the part of the talk where the speaker asks:
“How can you tell this is a legless lizard?”
There is always someone who replies:
“Because it doesn’t have legs.”
Snakebite Envenoming Challenge
February 11, 2010 By 6 Comments
So you sailed through the toxidrome challenge did you? How are you with elapids? Let’s see how you fare on the ‘Australian Snakebite Envenoming Challenge’…
How this works: For each of the six types of venomous Australian snake see if you can describe the classic findings for each of the possibly clinical effects listed below – click on the link to show/hide the answer.
Never Kiss a Jellyfish
January 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
Although I ‘love’ jellyfish from the point of view of a clinician, I avoid getting close and personal’ with them. Recently I plunged face first into a jellyfish
