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Butterfly Network Expands Applications for Smartphone-Connected Ultrasound: Interview
Butterfly Network, the digital health unicorn democratizing medical imaging, is continuing to add new applications for its handheld, single probe, smartphone-connected ultrasound technology. The Butterfly iQ, the multi-purpose pocket-sized ultrasound...
Source: Medgadget - November 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Exclusive News Ob/Gyn Pediatrics Radiology Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs

The Doctor Who Thwarted the Charge of the General Medical Council – Part 1
By  SAURABH JHA After Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba was convicted for manslaughter for delayed diagnosis of fatal sepsis in Jack Adcock, a six-year-old boy who presented to Leicester Royal Infirmary with diarrhea and vomiting, she was referred to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT). The General Medical Council (GMC) is the professional regulatory body for physicians. But the MPT determines whether a physician is fit to practice. Though the tribunal is nested within the GMC and therefore within an earshot of its opinions, it is a decision-making body which is theoretically independent of the GMC. The tribunal met in 2017, 6 ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: NHS #BawaGarba @roguerad Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 028 with John Santamaria
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog John Santamaria – Genuine care for patients both during and after the ICU stay How well do you understand what happens to your patients after they leave the ICU? Do you find out how they go and feed this back to your ICU team? Most of you give excellent care to your patients whilst they are in the intensive care unit. No doubt this will be compassionate, appropriate, diligent, information-driven, holistic, team-based and communicative care. But when they leave the ICU, ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 31, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Intensive Care Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies ex-ICU genuine care John Santamaria Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 215
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 215. Question 1 Sir Robert Jones from last week’s FFFF came from a strong line of ‘bone setters’, who was his uncle and what device did Jones promote that his uncle invented in World War one to reduce mortality in wounded soldiers? + Reveal the Fu...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 24, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Congenital central Hypoventilation syndrome Femur fracture Hugh Owen Thomas John Stapp Jones melioidosis murphy's law Nightcliff Gardner's disease Ondine Ondine's curse Religio Medici Thomas Browne Thomas sp 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

Healthcare Update Satellite — 09-15-2014
This study should be required reading in every emergency medicine residency in this country. In fact, the concepts in the studies should be tested on the emergency medicine board exams. Now if the study only compared the type of a patient’s insurance with the likelihood of emergency department recidivism. How else can the media try to tarnish this guy’s reputation? The doctor who oversaw Joan Rivers’ fatal endoscopy was once *sued* 10 years ago. Gasp. The former patient’s attorneys are really trying to create their 15 minutes of fame. They alleged that 10 years ago the patient received no informed ...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - September 15, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update 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