mHealth Toolbox at #ICEM16: Cape Town, April 16&17
I'm honored to be participating in the mHealth Toolbox next month. The two-day event is taking shape with a terrific lineup of physicians, entrepreneurs, technology enthusiasts, and many, many gadgets. Check back for links to presentations and resources. (Source: Blogborygmi)
Source: Blogborygmi - March 14, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nick Genes Source Type: blogs
mHealth Toolbox at #ICEM16: Cape Town, April 16 & 17
I ' m honored to be participating in the < a href= " http://www.mhealthtoolbox.com/ " target= " _blank " > mHealth Toolbox < /a > next month. The two-day event is taking shape with a terrific lineup of physicians, entrepreneurs, technology enthusiasts, and many, many gadgets. Check back for links to presentations and resources. (Source: Blogborygmi)
Source: Blogborygmi - March 13, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nick Genes Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 223
Welcome to the 223rd LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
In these times of burnout, strikes, and dissatisfaction, it’s incredibly important to remember the greatness that we are part of and can share in. Simon Carley blogs on this, urging us towards self-actualisation and transcendence. [SO]
T...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 13, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 137
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 137
Question 1
Is it rude to pandiculate in front of your consultant?
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Yes! This is yawning.
From the latin pandiculātus, to “stretch oneself”.
Technically if you were to pandiculate you would add a stretching of the arms and arching of the back to your yawn. [Reference]
Question ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 11, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five bad air FFFF hot dog headache Malaria pandiculate pimping roman fever william harvey Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 125
Welcome to the 125th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 6 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Anand Swaminathan and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check ou...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 10, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jeremy Fried Tags: Cardiology ECG Emergency Medicine Gastroenterology Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE critical care EBM Education literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 222
Welcome to the 222nd LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Josh Farkas explains his top 10 issues/problems with the new Sepsis-3 definitions. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
First 10 EM drops their articles of the month as February comes to a close. [AS]
Cameron Berg discusses another way ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 6, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 136
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 136
Question 1
Why is it called the ‘Pap‘ test?
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After its inventor George Papanicolaou originally from Greece but later worked in the United States as a pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection.
His work contributed to a 70% reduction in cervical cancer mortality ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 4, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Burton Line FFFF George papanicolaou James Parkinson lead poisoning MRI Pap smear Parkinson's disease Samter's Triad Zeugmatography Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 124
This study, using skin tests, found that 0 out of 211 patients demonstrated cross-reactivity between penicillin and aztreonam. The authors recommend skin testing prior to administration and skin testing isn’t a perfect surrogate for a systemic reaction upon IV administration but the best evidence we have shows that cross-reactivity is highly unlikely.
Recommended by Anand Swaminathan
The Best of the Rest
Emergency medicine
Minneci PC et al. Effectiveness of Patient Choice in Nonoperative vs Surgical Management of Pediatric Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis. JAMA Surg 2015:1-8. PMID 26676711
Surgeons at a ch...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 3, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Soren Rudolph Tags: Dermatology Education Emergency Medicine Gastroenterology General Surgery Immunology Intensive Care Pediatrics Pharmacology Pre-hospital / Retrieval R&R in the FASTLANE Respiratory Resuscitation Toxicology Toxicology and Toxino Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 221
Welcome to the 221st LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Sepsis-3 is released, and a fantastic 7 minute vodcast from JAMA on their new consensus definitions for sepsis and septic shock. [SL] Here’s 40 minutes of sepsis goodness–iTunes interviews with the authors. [SO]
This is discussed by many ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 28, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
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Another bit about software - iOS mail clients.Federico tweeted that iOS mail clients are today what Twitter clients were a few years back. Sure, but I never cared so much about reading and writing tweets because my job(s) didn't depend on it. E-mail is mission critical.I loved Mailbox but it never did Outlook. Acompli was a leap forward, flawlessly blending Outlook and Gmail; I even liked its built-in calendar and recent files feature. I thought it was good that Microsoft bought it - but then innovation stalled and they removed the one feature I was really enamored with - programmable long swipes. Yeah, this may have been ...
Source: Blogborygmi - February 27, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nick Genes Source Type: blogs
The Big To-Do
So, I've become one of those people that blogs about organizational software. I'm sorry. Just writing this post will probably squander every extra minute I'd have ever saved by using such software. For years I've been using OmniFocus, and it's been pretty good. Before that I was using Apple's own Reminders solution (I was a big fan of the Siri integration, which Omnifocus also takes advantage of). Before Reminders, I used Remember the Milk and Wunderlist. I've been on Todoist for a few weeks, and it's pretty great. Omnifocus just got really frustrating in recent months, and wrestling with it became another i...
Source: Blogborygmi - February 26, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nick Genes Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 123
Welcome to the 123th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 6 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Anand Swaminathan and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check ou...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 24, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Soren Rudolph Tags: Airway Education Emergency Medicine Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE Resuscitation Toxicology and Toxinology Trauma critical care recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
Safe Sport – Protecting the Players and the Game
Rugby and contact sport has always been a part of my life; from the junior rugby fields where organizing young children is like herding cats, to university rugby with post game beers and weekly rejection from the blondes of the ladies hockey team. I’ve always been passionate about sport but now as I’m aging and no longer finding difficulty putting on weight, I’m noticing a different aspect to it; in particular, a large change in the way we prepare and our awareness of participant safety.
Many of us will be able to name some disasters in sport. One of the most high profile in the last few years would have to be Phill...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 23, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Johnny Iliff Tags: Pre-hospital / Retrieval Sports Medicine Concussion ICIR ICIS Petr Čech pitch-side care Safe Sport sport triage Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 220
Welcome to the 220th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
The world is buzzing about Zika Virus. Found out what you need to know this week from emDocs. [MG]
Interesting perspective on the Zika virus in this week’s NEJM, describing the “pandemic expansion of multiple, heretofore relatively unimport...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 21, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 122
This study looked at reducing the rate of peripheral IV (PIV) failure by applying a drop of cyanoacrolate to the PIV site. In this nonblinded, randomized trial, failure rates were 10% lower in the cyanoacrolate group. This difference was mostly due to decreased dislodgement rate (7% vs. 14%). Although this looks impressive, the absence of blinding biases the results towards the cyanoacrolate group making this intervention look better than it may be in real life. Also, let’s not remember that cyanoacrolate isn’t cheap. Is the added cost worth the savings from PIV replacement? A multi-center study with cost-analy...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 17, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Soren Rudolph Tags: Airway Education Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Pre-hospital / Retrieval Procedure R&R in the FASTLANE Resuscitation critical care recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
