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Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 077
This article sheds some light on the issue. In this study of ICU patients in Australia and New Zealand, the standard SIRS criteria missed 1 in 8 patients who went on to severe sepsis. These results call into question the reliability of the SIRS criteria.Recommended by: Anand SwaminathanThe R&R iconoclastic sneak peek icon keyThe list of contributorsThe R&R ARCHIVER&R Hall of famer You simply MUST READ this!R&R Hot stuff! Everyone’s going to be talking about thisR&R Landmark paper A paper that made a differenceR&R Game Changer? Might change your clinical practiceR&R Eureka! Revolutionary i...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 2, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jeremy Fried Tags: Cardiology Emergency Medicine Haematology Immunology Infectious Disease Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE critical care Education literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
A History of General Refrigeration
Ancient societies figured out that hypothermia was useful for hemorrhage control, but it was Hippocrates who realized that body heat could be a diagnostic tool. He caked his patients in mud, deducing that warmer areas dried first.
Typhoid fever, the plague of Athens in 400 BC and the demise of the Jamestown Colony in the early 1600s, led Robert Boyle to attempt to cure it around 1650 by dunking patients in ice-cold brine. This is likely the first application of therapeutic hypothermia, but it failed to lower the 30 to 40 percent mortality rate. One hundred years later, James Currie tried to treat fevers by applying hot,...
Source: Spontaneous Circulation - March 31, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 174
Welcome to the 174th 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 WeekThe 15th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM-15) took place from the 17th to the 20th of March. Lots of FOAMy goodness bubbled up from the event, including:A neat summary from Adrian Wong in the OXICM blog: day 1 ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 22, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Interested in Toxicology? APAMT and TAPNA
You took WHAT???The more you know, the less you know about a poison…. just look at paracetamol! And if your patient took something you knew a little bit about…. it is always combined with a new chemical name that you have never heard about! Not to mention the forever changing and amazing routes to administer it!If you would like to know more about Toxicology, there will be two amazing Toxicology conferences in Australia this year.On 1st and 2nd of May 2015 there is the TAPNA (Toxicology and Poisons Network Australasia) scientific meeting in Sydney. Since it is closely linked with Emergency Medicine and the pois...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 18, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Ioana Vlad Tags: Australia Conference Education Emergency Medicine Toxicology and Toxinology Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 170
Welcome to the 170th 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 WeekRory Spiegel offers an in-depth look at the endovascular study triad recently released (MR CLEAN, EXTEND-IA and ESCAPE) to treat acute ischemic strokes, and why we should be cautiously optimistic that a small subset of patients have been identified i...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 22, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review #170
Welcome to the 170th 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 WeekRory Spiegel offers an in-depth look at the endovascular study triad recently released (MR CLEAN, EXTEND-IA and ESCAPE) to treat acute ischemic strokes, and why we should be cautiously optimistic that a small subset of patients have been identified i...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 22, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
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
EMA Journal February 2015
Issue 1 (Vol. 27) of EMA Journal for 2015 was published online on 27th January. Editorial overview by Andrew Gosbell & Geoff HughesA Beginners Guide to Medical Social Media and FOAM (#FOAMed)All you need to know to access online medical education resources and get started with social media is explained by Weingart and Thoma in this video using the conceptual framework of a hierarchy of needs. Predicting the numbers – ED presentations time-series analysis (Abstract)Accurate forecasting of the magnitude of future health services demand, particularly for EDs where overcrowding is indi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 6, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Clinical Research EMA Journal LITFL Source Type: blogs
Take Heart Australia
Guest Post by Professor Paul Middleton, emergency physician and founder of Take Heart Australia
I have spent the last 20 years practicing emergency medicine on the ground and in the air. I have attended countless cardiac arrests both in hospital and the pre-hospital setting; performed compressions on hundreds of chests; sent countless joules of energy through wobbling hearts, and squirted buckets of adrenaline into cannulae, IO needles and ET tubes…but I still have an empty feeling inside – I know we can do better.
We hear about cardiac arrest all the time, and as clinicians working in emergency medicine and cr...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 18, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Cardiology Pre-hospital / Retrieval Website Chain of survival OOHCA Paul Middleton Professor Paul Middleton Take Heart Take Heart Australia Source Type: blogs
Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine
Applying some principles learned in Palliative Care to every-day Emergency Medicine practice – a guest post by Professor Ian Rogers FACEM, of St John of God Murdoch Hospital and University of Notre Dame in Perth, Western Australia
Earlier this year I did a sabbatical in Palliative Care. I deliberately chose to work with a purely consultative service based in a tertiary teaching hospital. They did not admit under their own bed card nor was there a hospice on site to admit to. We saw patients from all across the hospital; from outpatients to ED, from ICU to slow stream rehabilitation. My aim was to gain an understandin...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 12, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Palliative care Ian Rogers Prof Ian Rogers Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 155
Welcome to the 154th 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 Beaut of the Week
Cricoid pressure/force continues to be a contentious point amongst critical care practitioners. Where did it come from? The Bottom Line review and critique the original paper by Sellick. [SO]
Insight into the mind of Scott Weingart. How the master...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 10, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Anand Swaminathan Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 153
The LITFL Review is 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.
Welcome to the 153rd edition, brought to you by:
Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM Lyceum, iTeachEM)
Brent Thoma [BT] (BoringEM and Academic Life in EM)
Chris Connolly [CC]
Chris Nickson [CN] ( iTeachEM, RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
Joe-Anthony Rotella [JAR]
Kane Guthrie [KG]
Mat Goebel [MG]
Segun Olusany...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 20, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Anand Swaminathan Tags: Education LITFL R/V 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
FACEMs at Night: An American Perspective
This is the first of two perspectives on whether FACEMs should work night night shifts, for the second, see Michelle Johnston’s ‘FACEMs at Night: A Mattress Stuffed with Flaw‘.
My father, an active general surgeon who has been in practice for almost five decades often recounts stories of “the good ‘ole days” when it was interns and junior residents who cared for patients most of the day. Supervising physicians were uncommonly found in patient care areas (except the operating room). Residents made critical decisions, often without the necessary training, and they and their patients lived (or died) wi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 21, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Anand Swaminathan Tags: Australia Emergency Medicine anand swaminathan consultant emergency physician FACEM night-shift Source Type: blogs
