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Top Online ECG Courses
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Difficult to master (and even harder to teach), the area of ECG interpretation has spawned an entire learning industry devoted to the topic. We take a Google deep dive to evaluate you 17 of the the best #FOAMed and paid ECG courses available online.
ECG Course selection criteria
Inclusion criteria: The ECG course had to be
in the English language
readily accessible online, without requiring a formal application process
found within the first 50 organic Google search res...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 3, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Connelly Tags: ECG Education Review Website ECG Academy ECG Course ECG Course online EKG medmastery Medvarsity Top 10 Source Type: blogs
Australian Anaphylaxis amplification
Anaphylaxis is increasingly common. The patient population death rate for anaphylaxis is Australia in 2013 was over double that reported in the UK
Dr Ray Mullins, an allergist in Canberra, and colleagues from Sydney and Singapore have recently reported an increase in in the number of anaphylaxis fatalities in Australia. This is currently trending towards a 3 fold increase in anaphylaxis deaths over the study period of 15 years. Mullins and colleagues had previously identified a rise in the rate of all food allergy, with the most dramatic effect in young childhood food where hospital admission analyses showed a 50...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 18, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Clinical Research Education Immunology allergy Anaphylaxis EpiPen mastocytosis Ray Mullins Source Type: blogs
Expedition and Wilderness Medicine
Guest post Dr Edi Albert – Associate Professor, Remote and Polar Medicine at the University of Tasmania. Director, Wilderness Education Group
These two nearly synonymous terms refer broadly to the practice of medicine in austere and remote environments. The former term suggests a “journey with a purpose”, whether scientific, humanitarian, or recreational. The latter terms suggests an environment “undisturbed by human activity”. Either way, a pretty cool way to practice medicine.
It is within this context that we can identify three broad aspects to expedition and wilderness medicine: pre-departure preparation ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 25, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sean Rothwell Tags: Medical Specialty Wilderness Medicine adventure adventure medicine Curriculum Dr Bill Lukin Dr Edi Albert Dr Julian Williams Dr Sean Rothwell remote 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
A (Global) Cornucopia Of Clues To Optimize Medication Use
The most common patient care intervention, issuing a prescription, is fraught with continuing challenges for patients, their caregivers, and practitioners. Patients rely on medications across a continuum of care, with expectations for self-management; some experience unintended problems along the way. For older patients, such problems often result in emergency hospitalizations, many of which could be prevented.
Historically, integration to support safe and appropriate medicine use across the U.S. health care ecosystem has been sporadic, including within our siloed Medicare Part D benefit. Other countries, however, are well...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: N. Lee Rucker, Michael Holden, Parisa Aslani, and Rana Ahmed Tags: All Categories Global Health Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Pharma Policy Public Health 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
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
