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LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 208. Guest post by Dr Mark Corden – paediatric fellow in Melbourne
Question 1
A 5 year old presents to you after being picked up from a day at Grandma’s house, she has a pruritic, red, blanching, papular rash to both hands. After some questioning she tell...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 5, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspirin contact dermatitis diet pills digoxin grevillea oleander phentermine reyes syndrome Source Type: blogs
The brain and the gut talk to each other —how fixing one could help the other
It’s widely recognised that emotions can directly affect stomach functionality. As early as 1915, influential physiologist Walt Cannon noted that stomach functions are changed in animals when frightened. The same is true for humans. Those who stress a lot often survey diarrhoea or stomach pain.
Related Posts:Can changes in the brain affect your microbiome?Researchers want to know how newest IBS medication helps…Stomach disorders involve both brain-to-gut plus…So Why Am I Writing About IBS?Brand new study finds link between depressive disorder and…The post The brain and the gut talk to each otherâ...
Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - July 17, 2017 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 185
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 185 with an Easter twist.
Question 1
Where was Rapamycin discovered?
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Easter Island (Papa Nui)
If you are lucky enough to climb upto the exti...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five auricular amputations bunny chocolate easter easter island egg on a string rabbit Rapamycin theobromine transposition of the great arteries tularemia Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 167
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 167
Question 1
What is Asturian leprosy?
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Pellagra or vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency as a result of a corn based diet (Noted in the Asturias community in Spain).
In 1915, back when such practices were legal and under the Surgeon General’s sanction in the USA, Dr. Goldberger offered ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 24, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five acromegaly Andre the giant as you wish Asturian leprosy bicyclists vulva brown sequard Jake leg OPIDN organophosphate induced delayed neuropathy Pellagra placebo vitamin B3 Source Type: blogs
Group member profile - Haruna Imamura
Here is the second entry into what I hope will be a very long series where I introduce our lab's members. Next up is Haruna Imamura (pubmed), an interdisciplinary postdoc with experience in mass-spectrometry and informatics.What was the path the brought you to the group? Where are you from and what did you work on before arriving in the group? I first joined the biological network analysis group in my undergraduate course in the lab of Masaru Tomita at Keio University (Japan). I launched a project, which applied the concept of network analysis to a dataset of phosphorylation dynamics. Because of this experience, I gre...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - December 15, 2015 Category: Cytology Tags: group Source Type: blogs
Group member profile - Haruna Imamura
Here is the second entry into what I hope will be a very longseries where I introduce our lab's members. Next up is Haruna Imamura (pubmed), an interdisciplinary postdoc with experience in mass-spectrometry and informatics.What was the path the brought you to the group? Where are you from and what did you work on before arriving in the group? I first joined the biological network analysis group in my undergraduate course in the lab ofMasaru Tomita at Keio University (Japan). I launched aproject, which applied the concept of network analysis to a dataset of phosphorylation dynamics. Because of this experience, I grew i...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - December 15, 2015 Category: Cytology Tags: group Source Type: blogs
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 119
Question 1
Which surgeon had a mortality rate of 300% during a single operation? How did this happen?
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Robert Liston (1794-1847)
Liston operated in a time before anaesthesia. It was recognised that a speedy operation could significantly improve the outcomes for a patient, and Mr Liston w...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 2, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Niall Hamilton Tags: Frivolous Friday Five capecitabine ciguatera FFFF louis pasteur Oncology rabies robert liston virchow Source Type: blogs
More Life, Less Severe Illness, but More Years of Illness
Global trends in life expectancy, at birth, at 30, and at 60, continue onward and upward at a fairly slow but steady pace: approximately two years every decade for life expectancy at birth and a year every decade for remaining life expectancy at 60. The research linked below crunches the numbers for the much of the world from 1990 to 2013, an extension of similar past studies to include more recent data. The authors show that lives are longer and age-related illness less severe, but the period of time spent in disability or illness has grown.
We are machines. Very complex machines, but nonetheless collections of matter su...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 27, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Uquora – Hope, Hype and Maybe a Case of Diarrhea
Before you go out and spend $25 for 10 packets of Uquora, the new after-sex UTI prevention drink that launched today, you should consider if it actually works.
What’s in Uqora?
Uqora’s main active ingredient is D-Mannose (2 gm), combined with Vitamin C (600 mg), Vitamin B6, Calcium and Magnesium. (The company website does not list amounts for the last three ingredients.) The ingredients are made into a powder that you mix with water and drink.
The manufacturer claims that Uqora will reduce the chance of getting a UTI if you drink it after having sex, after exercise or during travel, all activities linked to re...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 20, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Women's Health Post-coital Post-sex PRevention Uqora urinary tract infection UTI Source Type: blogs
Global Life Expectancy Has Risen by Six Years Since 1990
This study confirms other work that shows the ballpark growth in life expectancy at birth is something like one year with every four calendar years. Adult life expectancy is also climbing, but more slowly - perhaps one year each decade. This present pace will change as the research community starts to deliberately target aging for treatment, which has not previously been the case. Past gains in life expectancy at age 30 or 60 due to improvements in medicine have been somewhat incidental, side-effects rather than deliberately obtained results.
Global life expectancy for both sexes increased from 65.3 years in 1990, to 71.5...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 18, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Help African Emergency Medicine Now!
aka Postcards from the Edge 010
This ‘postcard from the edge’ is by Swedish Emergency Physician Dr Katrin Hruska (@akutdoktorn), who writes a Swedish/ English language language blog called akutdoktorn.
Immaculate Nagaddya is a registered nurse, working in Lugada Hospital in Uganda. It is a small hospital with about 10 000 visits per year, where she receives critically ill patients, presenting with conditions like status asthmatics, status epilepticus and severe dehydration from watery diarrhoea. Together with seven other nurses and between one and three doctors she keeps this emergency department open day and night, a...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 7, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine International Emergency Medicine AFCEM AFEM africa immaculate naggadya jeremiah njenga postcards from the edge Source Type: blogs
Just a moderate bee sting
When the garden lawn is covered in blooming clover (Trifolium) and the last few honeybees (Apis mellifera) that haven’t yet succumbed to colony collapse disorder are busy about their floral business, it’s probably a good idea to not walk around barefoot in the garden with one’s reading glasses on, it would help avoid all that embarrassing hopping about in blooming apitoxin-induced pain…caused mainly by melittin (Glycyl-L-isoleucylglycyl-L-alanyl-L-valyl-L-leucyl-L-lysyl-L-valyl-L-leucyl-L-threonyl-L-threonylglycyl-L-leucyl-L-prolyl-L-alanyl-L-leucyl-L-isoleucyl-L-seryl-L-tryptophyl-L-isoleucyl-L-lys...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - July 2, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Alex Simring Discusses HIV Basics
Alex Simring has written this brief overview which outlines some basic features of HIV infection. Remember that is article is not meant to provide medical advice, and that a physician should always be consulted if there is any concern about possible HIV infection. More information about the author can be found at Alex Simring’s Journey…Discover.
The symptoms of AIDS and HIV vary based on the stage of clinical illness. Below there is a list of the main stages of HIV.
Primary disease
“Most individuals develop a flu-like illness within a month or two after the virus enters the body.”, states Alex. This...
Source: aids-write.org - June 8, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Fuse Wide Angle Endoscope Detects Significantly More Polyps Than Standard Colonoscopy
Last May EndoChoice (Alpharetta, GA) received FDA clearance for its novel Fuse endoscopy system that provides a 330° field of view compared to traditional scopes that do up to 170°. A new study just published in The Lancet has confirmed a significant advantage to having such a wide field of view when detecting adenomas during colonoscopies.
The Fuse has multiple cameras and LED lights illuminate the scene, providing an integrated view on tablet-like touchscreen panel. In the study 88 patients had adenomas detected using traditional colonoscopy, but there was a 41% miss rate of further adenomas that were detected only us...
Source: Medgadget - March 19, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: GI Source Type: blogs
A Fisherman’s Friend… or Foe?
aka Toxicology Conundrum 052
A 64 year-old male was brought in after a collapse at home. He had been sitting on the couch with his wife when she noticed that he had gone limp and was not breathing. Bystander CPR was performed for 15 minutes until ambulance crews arrived. He received 2x DC 200J shock for ventricular fibrillation, after which he had a return of spontaneous circulation, with HR 80 sinus rhythm, BP 90/60 and GCS 3. In the Emergency department he received 300mg Amiodarone, and cooling was commenced as per out of hospital cardiac arrest protocol at that time. He had a further episode of VF arrest soon after ar...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kylie McNamara Tags: Clinical Case Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care Toxicology Toxicology Quiz cardiac arrest ECG Glycyrrhizic acidm hypokalemia laboratory results licorice liquorice Source Type: blogs
