LITFL Review 199
Welcome to the 199th 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
PHEMCAST, Prehospital Emergency Medicine Podcast, is here! Providing the latest and greatest FOAMed from PHEM in the UK. Episode one kicks off with a superb line up on laryngeal mask airway (LMA), including PALM, LMA in cardiac arrest and much mo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 27, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Four Great Instructional SMACC Videos from Hennepin
These great procedural videos on online at SMACC. All done at Hennepin County Medical Center's Emergency Department by my incredible colleagues.All are embedded below.3 were Winners of the SMACC instructional video contest (Winners in September, April, and May)Minnesota Tube by Drs. Jacoby, Helland, Simpson, and Joing (WINNER)ILMA by Drs. Rowland-Fisher, Joing, Prekker, and Reardon (WINNER)Williams Airway by Drs. Kornas, Rowland-Fisher, Joing, and Reardon Nasopharyngoscopy by Drs. Paetow, Rowland-Fisher, and Reardon (WINNER)September Winner Minnesota Tube from Social Media and Critical Care on Vimeo.April ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 078
Welcome to the 78th 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 7 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&...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 9, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Anand Swaminathan Tags: LITFL R&R in the FASTLANE critical care Emergency Medicine recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 128
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
Welcome to the 128th edition, brought to you by:
Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL
Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles
Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and ALiEM
Chris Ni...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 4, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: eLearning Featured Intensive Care Pediatrics Toxicology #FOAMped #FOAMtox #meded FOAMcc FOAMed LITFL R/V LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Lessons from the Bromiley Case
In 2007, Martin Bromiley’s wife died due to medical error. The Bromiley case will be familiar to many of us. The lessons from this case can teach us stark lessons about our own leadership and teamwork.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzlvgtPIof4
Martin’s story
Martin and his wife, Elaine had two young children. Elaine went into hospital for a routine sinus operation and during anaesthetic induction, it all went horribly wrong.
Her airway obstructed and the team was unable to gain a secure airway. For 20 minutes they attempted to achieve a stable airway, during which time her sats were around 40%.
Although she survive...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 12, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Anaesthetics Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care airway crisis resource management elaine bromily lessons Martin Bromiley teamwork Source Type: blogs
