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The Future of Emergency Medicine: Innovations Making Patients The Point-of-Care
Every minute spent without treatment could reduce the chance of survival in case of medical emergency and trauma patients. Digital health innovations making patients the point-of-care could become a great help for first responders and emergency units in the battle against time. Here, we collected what trends and technologies will have an impact on the future of emergency medicine. Six minutes before brain damage Car crashes, home injuries, fires, natural disasters. The difference between life and death often depends on the speed and efficiency of emergency care services. The work of doctors, paramedics, and nurses being in...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 28, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: imported CPR digital health emergency emergency medicine EMS first aid first response future Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation technology Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 090
Welcome to the global 90th edition! 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. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week Top spot this week is given to The Trauma Professional’s Blog, each week  Michael provides us with fascinati...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 10, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health LITFL review LITFL R/V 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 LITFL Review 127
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 127th 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 ALiEM Chris Ni...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 25, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 143
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 143rd 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 ALiEM Chris Ni...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 9, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

R&R in the FASTLANE 031
Our currently highly irregular series of eminence-based evidence is finally back again – with the 31st edition: A free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature. This edition contains 11 recommended reads. Find out more about the R&R in the FASTLANE project here and check out the team of contributors from all around the world. This edition’s R&R Hall of Famer Young NS, Ioannidis JP, Al-Ubaydli O. Why current publicat...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE critical care literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs

Anaesthetic Crisis Manual
Book Review: The Anaesthetic Crisis Manual, David C Borshoff The Anaesthetic Crisis Manual (The ACM), was first published in 2011 and is a collection of 22 life threatening crises that anaesthetists manage in everyday practice. Based on the cockpit QRH (quick reference handbook) used in the airline industry, and using CRM (crew resource management) principles developed for aviation safety, the ACM brings tried and tested checklist instruction to the field of Patient Safety. LITFL reviewed the book as a potential resource in the setting of the emergency resuscitation area and at the ICU bedside. The ACM utilises accepted...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 20, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Book Review Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Reviews ACM Anaesthetic Crisis Manual Anesthetic Manual CRM David C Borshoff Dr Borshoff QRH Source Type: blogs

The Use of Thrombolysis as a Treatment for Acute Stroke
Conclusion  Left deliberately blank. ..it is now up to you – the medical and the non-medical public to make up your mind… The References Intravenous desmoteplase in patients with acute ischaemic stroke selected by MRI perfusion-diffusion weighted imaging or perfusion CT (DIAS-2): a prospective, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Lancet Neurology 2009 Feb.;8(2):141–150. PMCID 2730486 Effects of alteplase beyond 3 h after stroke in the Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolytic Evaluation Trial (EPITHET): a placebo-controlled randomised trial. Lancet Neurology 2008 Apr.;7(4):299–309.PMID 18296121 Random...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 7, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured IST-3 lysis Prof Daniel Fatovich Prof Simon Brown stroke Source Type: blogs

Umesh Prabhu, The Changemaker
…. mistakes are made by us all, but what causes one man to decide to change the culture of medicine? LITFL Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series of posts on medical error that tie in with article by Tessa Davis in the Medical Journal of Australia Insight. Use these links to read the first two parts: The doctor who exposed his own error and The victim of medical mistakes. When Umesh Prabhu moved from India to work as a paediatrician in the UK he had no reason to be a patient safety advocate; until his own mistake resulted in a terrible outcome for his patient. Here, I talk to him about how he has ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 13, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured change medical error medical journal of australia mistakes MJA insight umesh prabhu Source Type: blogs

Foreign policy through the lens of an emergency physician
These seem unrelated, but give me a chance. I was eating outside at a restaurant with my 5 month old, Max, and a car with a modified muffler hit the gas right in front of us. In Australia, you’d call the driver a “hoon.” The noise terrified my boy, and I felt something I’m not used to: protective rage. When Max stopped crying my mind went to struggling families, kids, bombs, drones and suicide bombers, naturally. So I thought I’d type on medicine and foreign affairs. When you arrive in an ER with one-sided leg/arm/face paralysis, you’ll probably be whisked to a CT scanner to see whether...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 15, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Emergency Source Type: blogs

Tropical Travel Trouble 008 Total TB Extravaganza
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 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

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

Reports of therapeutic hypothermia’s death are greatly exaggerated
I expect you’re completely #FOAMed out by the post-publication frenzy stirred up by the TTM Trial. If not, you’ve come to the right place! Mike collated the explosion of initial FOAM responses in All in a lather over TTM and there have since been notable additions such as Scott Aberegg’s Chill Out: Homeopathic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest… and ICN’s interview with TTM investigators Niklas Nielsen and Anders Aneman one week after TTM. Soon after, Charles Bruen came with his fascinating blogpost/podcast putting the latest studies in historical perspective: Therapeutic hypothermia: The h...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care Resuscitation Bernard critical appraisal HACA Nielsen Targeted Temperature Management Therapeutic Hypothermia TTM Source Type: blogs