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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 197
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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 FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 197. The week have a first-aid feel to the questions.
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What organisation celebrates 140 years, 70 years before the NHS?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five cafe coronary claude beck dangerous animal defibrillation Heimlich Heimlich manoeuvre horse ironman madonna buder St John's Ambulance Source Type: blogs
Privilege and Palliative Care
by Denise HessAn American pastor recently visited Australia and encountered a curious practice. At the start of meetings, any kind of meeting not just religious ones, she found it is common practice to begin with what is called an “acknowledgment of country.” According to reconciliation.org.au:An Acknowledgement of Country is an opportunity for anyone to show respect for Traditional Owners and the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Country. It can be given by both non-Indigenous people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.And it goes something like this:...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 11, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Tags: culture hess open access psychosocial race Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 032 with Kate Harding
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Kate Harding – Losing Richard: What can we learn from her intensivist husband’s shocking death?
What is it like to witness an intensivist struggle?
And what can we learn from the shocking death of an intensivist?
This special Mastering Intensive Care episode is on a difficult and important topic. Rather than focusing on bringing our best selves to work, the focus of this episode is the ultimate tragedy of our profession, doctor suicide.
I warn you that this is a sa...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies doctor intensivist Kate Harding Mental Health Richard Harding suicide Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 072 with Professor Jules Wendon
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Professor Jules Wendon is one of the leading lights in ICU medicine. This week we have a Wendon Double Bill here on LITFL; first Mastering Intensive Care with Andrew Davies and now a Jellybean with Doug Lynch. She traveled round the world to share her knowledge with the CICM ASM crowd. Share is the operative word, for she was here to teach, to listen and to learn. It was a pleasure to sit down and talk with Jules about positivity, collaboration and being a bit of a night ow...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 17, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: JellyBean Jules Wendon Source Type: blogs
Thalidomide - The Real Story & The First Seal Baby By James Linder
Jones, M.D., M.H.A., FACEP
http://www.healthworldnet.com/articles/the-best-of-the-best/the-first-seal-baby-the-real-story-of-thalidomide.htmlThalidomide, despite its sordid past is undergoing a sort of renaissance and is being manufactured and used worldwide for a variety of illnesses including leprosyThe Thalidomide story had a complex course, full of unintended discoveries, with unforeseen consequences including the elements of an adventure story; heroes and heroines, bad guys, villains, intrigue, deception, antagonists and protagonists, even Nazis.It was December 25, 1956. In Stollberg, Germany. A young, nervous, to-be Dad was waiting for news fr...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 20, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
The Joy and Challenge of Simple Medicine in India
BY KATE BANKS, MDThe Himalayan Health Exchange (HHE) is an organization that assembles volunteers and health care providers from all over the world to deliver care in underserved areas in northern India. I had the amazing opportunity in my second year of residency to spend a month delivering medical care with HHE in the beautiful inner Himalayan mountains. The month was full of exploring, trekking, camping, learning, doctoring, and personal and professional growth.The clinics were scattered throughout different areas in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Our convoy of interpreters, cooks, volunteers, and health care profess...
Source: Going Global - December 12, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 004 with Neil Orford
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In this Mastering Intensive Care podcast, Assoc Prof Neil Orford from University Hospital Geelong in Geelong, Australia describes how he has had to learn key leadership skills, how he values and now teaches communication skills, how he works on his overall life balance and how he has developed an interest in writing.
Neil discusses topics such as: how he ended up studying medicine after considering being a vet and a mathematician; how he uses regular reflection to optimi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 15, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Neil Orford Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Studies
A joint study by Omada Health, Rock Health, and the Digital Medicine Society, based on a survey of employers, payers and benefit consultants, found that 90% of purchasers view virtual care as a high priority, an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Abbott Artera Ascension Avel eCare Axuall Biotech Breakthrough Awards Caption Health CareCloud CareEvolution CDC CelerisTx Cerner Change Healthcare Connect America Digital Medicine Society Elation Health Emp Source Type: blogs
NIH and Other Public Private Partnerships to Research Treatments for Multiple Diseases
Over the past few weeks, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made a number of important announcements regarding collaborations with industry as well as the funding of several new research initiatives. Below is a summary of these stories.
NIH Partners With Eli Lilly and Others on Rare Diseases
FierceBiotechResearch reported that NIH selected four (4) new preclinical drug development studies to uncover new therapies for rare diseases. The projects will be funded through the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program under NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NCATS, which ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
An adolescent with trauma, chest pain, and a wide complex rhythm
This case was sent by Dr Avinash Krishnamurthy, a fine emergency medicine resident from Australia Cairns base hospitalCase:An adolescent male had a mechanical fall and injured his left shoulder and arm. There was apparently no syncope and he had no bony injuries, but he did complain of left sided chest pain. His chest was tender. A bedside cardiac ultrasound was normal.An ECG was recorded:Avinash was understandably confused by this ECG.He wrote:" ECG 1 - shows wide ???IVCD type rhythm ?? Delta waves in them and then his native rhythm, with ectopic pace maker?? "This was recorded shortly after:" Wide com...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 14, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 067 with Dr Hanna Kaade from Aleppo
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Under Siege. Under fire. Undergraduate. The remarkable journey of Dr Hanna Kaade; from Aleppo to Berlin and from the Red Crescent to #dasSMACC.
This is an ordinary tale. An accidental tale of everyday heroism. There are many tales like this. Every one worth telling, worth hearing, worth learning from.
Hanna Kaade is a Syrian born and trained doctor. He completed his medical training in a town under siege, in a hospital under fire, in the centre of a civil war at the cent...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Aleppo dasSMACC Hanna Kaade Source Type: blogs
ANZICS Safety & Quality Conference 2018 and Feedback in the Workplace
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The next ANZICS Safety & Quality Conference is coming…
This year’s ANZICS Safety & Quality Conference will take place from 30 – 31 July 2018 in Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand have been world leaders in the conception and promulgation of the Rapid Response System (RRS) model of care. An impressive scientific program has been developed which will explore Rapid Response Team Training, Rapid Response Teams in specific areas and explore strategi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 14, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Education Intensive Care ANZICS Safety & Quality Conference Feedback interprofessional learning in the workplace rapid response systems rapid response teams Source Type: blogs
Top Online ECG Courses
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Difficult to master (and even harder to teach), the area of ECG interpretation has spawned an entire learning industry devoted to the topic. We take a Google deep dive to evaluate you 17 of the the best #FOAMed and paid ECG courses available online.
ECG Course selection criteria
Inclusion criteria: The ECG course had to be
in the English language
readily accessible online, without requiring a formal application process
found within the first 50 organic Google search res...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 3, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Connelly Tags: ECG Education Review Website ECG Academy ECG Course ECG Course online EKG medmastery Medvarsity Top 10 Source Type: blogs
Follow-up on my Eight COVID Assertions
Yesterday’s post generated some good comments.
Two emergency medicine specialists felt that I was both wrong and insulting in saying that hospitals were not overwhelmed.
As a doc in NYC, I would suggest that your assertion 3 was indeed quite wrong and will be wrong in many more places before we are done— Josh Socolow (@Docjoshsoc) December 13, 2020
Jfc you weren't in Connecticut in April, and you aren't here now.We weren't (and aren't) fatally overwhelmed because of massive & costly efforts by our system. Anything less would have been catastrophic.Your blithe dismissal is kind ...
Source: Dr John M - December 13, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
