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Saving the Healthcare Dollar
The cost of healthcare is rising. New and expensive treatments, longer life expectancy and an ageing population are developing into a tsunami which threatens to flatten the health budget of first world economies.Already we are feeling the effects of this.WA health budget cuts will hit system struggling to meet demandAt the coalface in the emergency department we are being told by our hospital administrators that the health budget cuts must be passed on. We are to find increased productivity and efficiency with no increase in staffing numbers – in fact staff must be cut to achieve budgets constraints. Do more with les...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 11, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: James Winton Tags: Administration Emergency Medicine Medical Humor Administrators Healthcare Dollar Source Type: blogs
Medgadget at BaselWorld: Oris Royal Flying Doctor Service Limited Edition Watch
What is Medgadget doing at the premier watch and jewelry show in the world? Well, mostly what everyone else is doing, gawking at all the shiny things we can’t afford. However, there were a few clearly medically related items on display, inc...
Source: Medgadget - April 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dan Buckland Tags: Art Emergency Medicine in the news... Source Type: blogs
FACEMs at Night: A Mattress Stuffed with Flaw
This is the second of two perspectives on whether FACEMs should work night night shifts, for the first, see Anand Swaminathan’s ‘FACEMs at Night: An American Perspective‘.
Let us take ourselves one fact. One, simple, undeniable fact. One cannot, after all, dispute a fact. A fact, according to most reputable definers of words (and a few, which are my more preferred sources, disreputable ones) is a truth. A thing that is universally known to be true. Merriam-Webster (American, I know, but in light of it’s lexicographically poetic etymology, we must forgive its murderous spelling) defines it as ‘a true ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 21, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: Australia Emergency Medicine consultant emergency physician FACEM night-shift Source Type: blogs
News from EMA Course in New York – IT systems in ED – need for scribes
I attended the EMA Course in New York last month and although IT systems were not directly part of the course, the topic did arise and the general feeling of the many US emergency physicians appeared to be that current commercial ED software in place in the USA is NOT efficient and comments such as “terrible” were not uncommonly expressed.
It seems that the consensus was that for EP’s to be productive with such software they each need to have a personal scribe to ensure adequate timely documentation while allowing them to have adequate time at the bedside with the patients.
Furthermore, it seems that the ...
Source: Oz E Medicine - emergency medicine in Australia - July 8, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: anitaliu Tags: information technology information systems Source Type: blogs
Thinklabs One Electronic Stethoscope Helps Physicians Stop Spread of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the implementation and use of telemedicine and telehealth platforms and devices as part of current day-to-day standards of care in many hospital and healthcare systems. In this era of social distancing, doctors on our...
Source: Medgadget - July 13, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Education Emergency Medicine Exclusive Geriatrics Informatics Pediatrics Public Health Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 006 Watery Diarrhoea
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aka Tropical Travel Trouble 006
Our medical student who caught shigella on a Nepalese elective has a thirst for adventure. They plan to help at a Bangladesh refugee camp but the latest CDC report states there have been some cases of cholera. They’ve done a little bit of reading and want your help to teach them all about cholera and how they may prepare and best serve their new community.
Questions:
Q1. What is cholera and how is it transmitted?
Answer and interpreta...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine cholera diarrhoea john snow ORS rice water diarrhoea watery diarrhoea Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 008 Total TB Extravaganza
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aka Tropical Travel Trouble 008
Peer Reviewer Dr McBride ID physician, Wisconsin
TB affects 1/3rd of the population and one patient dies every 20 seconds from TB. Without treatment 50% of pulmonary TB patients will be dead in 5 years. In low to middle income countries both TB and HIV can be ubiquitous, poor compliance can lead to drug resistance and malnourished infants are highly susceptible. TB can be very complex and this post will hopefully give you the backbone to TB m...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine Genexpert meningitis TB TB meningitis Tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
Signos RT, or Sonimage P3, Handheld Ultrasound Receives FDA Approval
Signostics (Thebarton, South Australia) has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its Signos RT handheld ultrasound device in the United States, where it will be sold as the Sonimage P3. The Signos RT is a handheld self-contained portable ultraso...
Source: Medgadget - May 10, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Wouter Stomp Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Ob/Gyn Radiology Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
JellyBean 013
Dr Penny Stewart. Director of Alice Springs ICU.
The “white haired doctor” in the “land of the long white cloud”.
Red Hot Medicine in the Hot Red Centre of Australia.
Alice Springs Hospital, in the Northern Territory of Australia, is one of the worlds most remote Intensive Care Units.
It cares for some of the worlds most spectacular people in one of the worlds most spectacular environments.
Sick people but reversible causes.
Penny has published previously on the differences in the presentation of, and recovery from, severe sepsis in the indigenous western desert population that visit her unit...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 27, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured JellyBean Dr Penny Stewart Source Type: blogs
Airway Lessons from the Austere Environment
The Critically Ill Airway course, run by The Alfred ICU and Monash University, is taking place this week. Among the lineup of elite instructors is Dr Brent May (@docbrent), who has created a 12 minute video lecture on ‘Airway Lessons from the Austere Environment’.Brent is a trauma anaesthetist at The Alfred, a retrieval physician with Adult Retrieval Victoria, and is Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix, Motorcycling Australia and Karting Australia. I asked Brent to speak on this topic because I believe that all airway practitioners can benefit from the lessons learned by those wh...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 4, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Airway Anaesthetics Education Emergency Medicine Intensive Care Pre-hospital / Retrieval austere environment brent may critically ill airway course prehospital Source Type: blogs
The Way Health Information Is Handled In Australia Looks Like Changing. Badly Needed Indeed.
A kind commenter sent this link to the blog today:https://acem.org.au/getmedia/dde074e9-5bd3-4a00-b26a-c651cef81a15/earlyengagementpaperv1-0.aspxFollowing it you get this:Interoperability and Connected Healthcare in Australia Early Engagement Paper27 February 2018 V1.0 - Approved or external useDocument ID: Interoperability Early Engagement Paper Version 1.0What is not clear is just why it is hosted on the Aust. College of Emergency Medicine Website? This also looks to be the only copy out there.The whole document is well worth a read (Written by EY) but there are some highlights to me:First:What Can We Learn From Oth...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Calling all Educators! … Make a difference in ICU Education
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It is an exciting time to be an Educator involved in critical care in Australia and New Zealand!
We now have an active interprofessional grassroots network working in collaboration with organisations such as CICM, ACCCN, ANZICS, ICN, ANZAHPE, and SMACC (among others!) to advance clinical education in critical care.
This Network seeks to:
promote and develop the Clinician Educator role
implement best practice education in critical care
foster education scholarship and resea...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Education Intensive Care adelaide ANZCEN Australia clinician educators critical care network new zealand unconference Source Type: blogs
Calling all Educators! … Make a difference in ICU Education
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
It is an exciting time to be an Educator involved in critical care in Australia and New Zealand!
We now have an active interprofessional grassroots network working in collaboration with organisations such as CICM, ACCCN, ANZICS, ICN, ANZAHPE, and SMACC (among others!) to advance clinical education in critical care.
This Network seeks to:
promote and develop the Clinician Educator role
implement best practice education in critical care
foster education scholarship and resea...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Education Intensive Care adelaide ANZCEN Australia clinician educators critical care network new zealand unconference Source Type: blogs
We need to talk about TTM…. Again
This study has brought about widespread (although not universal) practice change in Australia.Whilst the conclusions of the trial were well received, there have been concerns from those involved in the trial that the study has been misinterpreted as evidence against actively cooling patients following out of hospital cardiac arrest. It is worth noting that many international bodies that set guidelines for the management of cardiac arrest have not endorsed the recommendations of the TTM trial. Currently this includes the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC).
As has been well documented, social media played a large role in...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 8, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: David Denman Tags: Emergency Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Featured Intensive Care Resuscitation post-cardiac arrest care Targeted Temperature Management Therapeutic Hypothermia TTM trial Source Type: blogs
The intricacies of working as a doctor with a spinal cord injury
I work as a resident in Australia’s busiest emergency department. Well, it was the busiest at a recent count anyway. The department is housed in the city of Gold Coast. The city sprawls across a beautiful stretch of beach. When I wake up, I turn my head to see the sun hanging out over the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/dinesh-palipana" rel="tag" > Dr. Dinesh Palipana < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
