POCUS Physics 202
Jo Deverill POCUS Physics 202 Following up from POCUS Physics 101; here is the second vid in the series, we drum in acoustic impedance, and learn: (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 3, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jo Deverill Tags: Ultrasound Library physics ultrasound basics ultrasound physics Source Type: blogs

Ultrasound Case 104
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 104 A 33 year old woman is hit in the left lower chest with a high speed hockey ball. She has moderate pain and some postural hypotension and tachycardia. FAST demonstrates a splenic laceration and rupture with free fluid, she has a CT and proceeds for embolisation. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound Ultrasound Library Splenic haematoma splenic laceration splenic rupture Source Type: blogs

CORE and FOAMres
Dr Mike Cadogan CORE and FOAMres CORE offers free access to millions of research papers and host the world’s largest collection of open access full texts. CORE is a not-for-profit service delivered by The Open University and Jisc (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 29, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Clinical Research FOAM CORE FOAMed Open Access raw data Source Type: blogs

Medmastery: prognosis and life tables
Sabrine Elkhodr Medmastery: prognosis and life tables Franz Wiesbauer explains how to express prognosis with the help of life tables and why this is essential to understanding Kaplan Meier curves. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 26, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sabrine Elkhodr Tags: Epidemiology Medmastery Franz Weisbauer life tables literature review prognosis research studies Source Type: blogs

Riding the FOAM of ECG Waves
Dr Mike Cadogan Riding the FOAM of ECG Waves FOAMed movement has facilitated access to myriad online educational resources and journals, previously locked behind a paywall. ecgwaves update for all LITFL readers who enjoy putting the F into FOAM... (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 26, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Cardiology FOAM Website Review Araz Rawshani ECG course ecgwaves FOAMed Source Type: blogs

Portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead
Dr Mike Cadogan Portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead In 1789 Savigny published a description of the construction and uses of a portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead, notable for it's catchy title and for the amazing prehospital resuscitation equipment replete with an ETT, NGT, OGT, bag...and rectal desufflator (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 26, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponym Brian Arthur Sellick Sellick manoeuvre Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 047 with Matt Morgan
Dr Andrew Davies Mastering Intensive Care 047 with Matt Morgan Andrew Davies talks with Matt Morgan - Mixing science, history, emotion and humanity in telling Critical stories. Mastering Intensive Care Podcast (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 25, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Matt Morgan Wales Welsh Source Type: blogs

Ultrasound Case 103 Fire and Brimstone
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 103 Fire and Brimstone A 38 year old woman presents with midcycle LIF pain. It is colicky and you are asked to scan her pelvis. Ultrasound Top 100 Cases (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 24, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound Ultrasound Library Mid ureteric calculus renal colic Renal ultrasound Source Type: blogs

Medmastery: PPV and prevalence
Sabrine Elkhodr Medmastery: PPV and prevalence Franz Wiesbauer looks at how a doctor can work out the probability of disease when confronted with a positive or a negative test result and how the prevalence of a given disease affects this probability. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 22, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sabrine Elkhodr Tags: Epidemiology Medmastery Franz Weisbauer literature review positive predictive value PPV prevalence research studies Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 295
Dr Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 295 It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 295 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 20, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF choking claudius hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia human cells Müller sign posture Toilet trypophobia Source Type: blogs

Brian Arthur Sellick
Dr Mike Cadogan Brian Arthur Sellick Brian Arthur Sellick (1918 – 1996) British anaesthetist. Best known for his description of the Sellick manoeuvre and hypothermia in cardiac surgery (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 19, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Anesthsiology Eponym Brian Arthur Sellick cardiac arrest charles kite Cricoid cricoid pressure Henry Hill Hickman Medal Hypothermia John Hunter Sellick manoeuvre Source Type: blogs

Medmastery: PPV and Specificity
Sabrine Elkhodr Medmastery: PPV and Specificity Franz Wiesbauer looks at the impact of specificity and sensitivity on positive predictive value (and thus validity of a test) and why one has a bigger impact than the other. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 19, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sabrine Elkhodr Tags: Epidemiology Medmastery literature review positive predictive value research studies sensitivity specificity Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 294
Dr Chris Nickson Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 294 It's Friday the 13th LITFLers... so of course this week's FFFF will test your knowledge on all types of fearfulness related to this inauspicious date. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 13, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Chris Nickson Tags: FFFF Friggatriskaidekaphobia Source Type: blogs

5 lessons learned
Dr Mike Cadogan 5 lessons learned On our 10th year blogiversary. 5 mistakes made and 5 lessons to learn from creating FOAM and entering the blogosphere (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Administration LITFL 5 lesson learned accept assistance Blog News blogiversary learn to say no learn who to trust the cost of free Source Type: blogs

Working with the ED Admitting Officer
Dr Chris Nickson Working with the ED Admitting Officer This is a rough guide for hospital inpatient team registrars and JMOs admitting patients via the Wild West of the Emergency Department. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Chris Nickson Tags: SMILE2 Clare Skinner collaboration ED Admitting Officer Emergency Department Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs