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Tropical Travel Trouble 010 Fever, Arthralgia and Rash
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog aka Tropical Travel Trouble 010 Peer Reviewer: Dr Jennifer Ho, ID physician QLD, Australia You are an ED doc working in Perth over schoolies week. An 18 yo man comes into ED complaining of fever, rash a “cracking headache” and body aches. He has just hopped off the plane from Bali where he spent the last 2 weeks partying, boozing and running amok. He got bitten by “loads” of mosquitoes because he forgot to take insect repellent. On examination he looks miserable,...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda McConnell Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine arthralgia dengue fever rash Source Type: blogs

Button Battery Update
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Button battery ingestion is one of the leading causes of death in paediatric poisoning and this has sharply risen from 2016 despite manufacturing warnings and the addition of tape to cover the negative side (not very useful once you’ve removed that to place it in your device). See Poison.org for more statistics. What makes button battery ingestion more frightening is the fact that the ingestion may go unwitnessed, the child may have vague symptoms like ‘off...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Toxicology and Toxinology button battery tox library toxicology library Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 229
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog 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 229 – musical medial conditions from http://www.songfacts.com. Question 1 “I stare into Some great abyss And calculate The things I’d miss If I could only Make some sense of this.” Sheryl Crow is singing about her experience undergoing treatmen...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 9, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five ACDC breast cancer cardiac arrest gonorrhoea heart attack heroin Leonard Cohen Madness radiation song Sheryl Crow Spiderbite The Flaming Lips The Jack Source Type: blogs

Tropical Travel Trouble 002 Rabies
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog aka Tropical Travel Trouble 002 A 19 year old gap year student has returned from India to your emergency department reporting she was bitten by a monkey at a temple. A selfie gone wrong but it scored 1000+ likes on Facebook… She is concerned because one of the Facebook comments suggested she may have rabies! A quick Google search suggested 60,000 people a year DIE from rabies. Should she be worried? Should you be worried? Questions Q1. What other questions should yo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine rabies Source Type: blogs

LITFL Review 315
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Welcome to the 315th 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 chunk of FOAM. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week Rob Macsweeney of Critical Care Reviews posts the 2 hour livestream of the ADRENAL Trial as ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 21, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 208
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog 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 208. Guest post by Dr Mark Corden – paediatric fellow in Melbourne Question 1 A 5 year old presents to you after being picked up from a day at Grandma’s house, she has a pruritic, red, blanching, papular rash to both hands.  After some questioning she tell...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 5, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspirin contact dermatitis diet pills digoxin grevillea oleander phentermine reyes syndrome Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog 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 201, courtesy of Dr Hakan Yaman from RFDS. Question 1 What is the rate of severe permanent TBI in the Asterix comics, 0%, 25%, 50% or 90%? http://www.asterix.com/the-collection/albums/asterix-and-the-picts.html + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getEle...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five asterix CRP Death dying Felty's syndrome fingernail GCS head injury hospital Pain pencil RA rheumatoid arthritis TBI Source Type: blogs

LITFL Review 279
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Welcome to the 279th 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 chunk of FOAM. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week An incredible talk from Tom Evens discussing how we train for the long game with a focus on margin...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 23, 2017 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 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

EMA Journal August 2014
Issue 4 (Vol. 26) of EMA Journal for 2014 was published online on 4th August. Editorial overview by Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes Lifers – the loneliest doctors   (#FOAMed) In the latest dispatch from the FOAM Frontier, Spiegel (@EMNerd_), Johnston (@Eleytherius), Ercleve (@Ercleve) and Nickson (@precordialthump) takes us on board the deep space transporter Odysseus where the deep space medics, jovially known as ‘Lifers’, deal with the perils of the induced mental and physiological stasis of passengers who make the centuries long voyages through deep space. The goal of appropriate sedation and ‘quenc...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 15, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education EMA Journal Emergency Medicine dental emergencies esop tool kit Lifers pediatric fractures Source Type: blogs

Change Day Australia
Change Day is coming and it’s time to make your pledges. What is Change Day? Change Day is running in Australia for the first time this year (http://changeday.com.au). Following the hugely successful NHS Change Day in the UK, the UK team have supported Australians in getting our own one up and running. It’s being run by a group of people who work in health and want to make patient care and our working lives better. The aim being for EACH and EVERY one of us to make a pledge to do something to improve healthcare. Join in the conversation, and share your stories on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube Why should I bother? Al...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 20, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Health #ChangeDayAus Australia change day pledge Source Type: blogs

EMA Journal December 2013
This report, from the Emergency Care Improvement & Innovation Clinical Network, describes a project that used a multimodal approach, grounded in quality and safety theory, to improve consistency in clinical practice, minimise risks and strengthen clinical governance arrangements for paediatric sedation across a number of Victorian EDs. Key activities addressed clinical governance, risk assessment and procedure documentation, training and credentialing of clinicians, and clinical audit of key quality and safety measures. This multi-modal implementation strategy supported by an evidence-based programme and resources ena...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 23, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning EMA Emergency Medicine Featured Journal burden of GP patients Burnout chest pain EMA Journal emergency medicine australasia NOACs oral anticoagulants paediatric procedural sedation Saline therapy Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 112
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 111th 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 Chris Nickson [C...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 14, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

The doctor who exposed his own error
Rather than hiding in shame from his mistakes, Bryan Bledsoe went public to tell the world about his error. Here, he tells me about the reasons behind that decision, and the consequences it has had for his career. Not only did he survive the terrifying experience of ‘going public’, he actually believes that the publicity benefitted him and others. Now he is a successful Emergency Physician, and author, in the USA, but back when he was a junior doctor he sent a patient home with tragic consequences. Dr Bledsoe described the details of his clinical encounter to me – the lady came in with a soft cervical collar on a...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 27, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Bryan Bledsoe medical error MJA Source Type: blogs