Selected by Body Region

HEAD

Clinical Signs and Meningitis
Headache and Subarachnoid haemorrage.
 How and how long your pain started?
Low probability of mandibular fracture? C'mon grit your teeth!
Is a cold steak enogh in black eye?

CHEST

Pleuritic pain and radio-occult lesion

What does it hide behind a negative X-Ray?

Pleuritic Pain, the end of the saga...

Can Ultrasound rule out a pneumothorax?

Thoracic trauma and chest X-Ray

Chest X-Ray and aortic dissection

Diagnosis of pneumonia. Is it the time for a combined imaging strategy?

How LR works. Why any test is unnecessary for a patient with very low-risk chest pain ?

Acute Dyspnoea and Laboratory

Acute dyspnoea and Lung Ultrasound

Acute dyspnoea and X-Ray

Acute dyspnoea and clinical findings

D-dimer and Aortic dissection

What does it hide behind a negative X-Ray?

Can we fight against Pulmonary Embolism using the LR’s arrows? 

Atypical or typical, is this the question?
Useless ECG?
Is chest X ray necessary to rule out PNX after thoracic maneuvers?
PCT and pneumonia: worth it?

ABDOMEN 

Is CRP correlated to CT result in the evaluation of abdominal pain?
Does Murphy’s sign and sonographic Murphy sign have the same clinical utility?
Rectal Examination and Appendicitis
Does procalcitonin have a role in the management of acute appendicitis?
Acute appendicitis and signs
Acute appendicitis and Symptoms
Goodbye nasogastric lavage!
Intestinal Ischemia and Lactate
Bowel obstruction and physical examination

Diagnosis of diverticulitis with hands and blood tests. 

How have you come to the hospital?

Do you suspect a lower UTI? Urine analysis sometimes is over!
Is it a subtle appendicitis? How to make time your friend
Is it a subtle appendicitis? How to make time your friend (part two)
Clinical diagnosis of gastric ulcer. 
Does your gastroenerologist perform better?
Plain X ray in suspected bowel obstruction. Is that all?
Age of 45 and dyspepsia.
Alarm symptoms and gastric cancer. Are they alarms or they are alarming?
Run to the operation room!
Where is peritonitis?
Blood test and urgent abdominal conditions.

SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE

Cellulitis and the role of laboratory
Soft tissue abscess: clinical plus ultrasound evaluation

BONES AND JOINTS





Is cervical spine X-ray necessary if there is a distracting injury?
Septic Arthritis and Arthrocentesis
Is it broken?
Sciatica: only pain control, or imaging?
Low probability of mandibular fracture? C'mon grit your teeth!
Does every shoulder pain means magnetic risonance?

BLOOD






CD4 and Lymphocyte count
Malaria or just fever?
Is CRP useful alone to support the hypotesis of a bacteraemia? 
Is CRP correlated to CT result in the evaluation of abdominal pain?
Diagnosis of diverticulitis with hands and blood tests. 
It is always necessary to perform an arterial blood gas after a blunt trauma?
NO ferver, NO bacteriaemia?
Blood test and urgent abdominal conditions. Read more...