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Mastering Intensive Care 022 with Felicity Hawker
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogFelicity Hawker – A true female pioneer of Intensive CareThis week’s Mastering Intensive Care podcast features Dr Felicity Hawker who is one of the true female pioneers of Intensive Care in Australia and New Zealand.I had the privilege of working with Felicity for over a decade from when I began as a brand new intensive care consultant over 20 years ago and I came to admire her greatly. Mainly because I witnessed first-hand someone who was a master clinician – astu...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 13, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies Felicity Hawker Female Pioneer Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 84 with Steve Philpot
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogTalking about talking about dying with Dr Steve Philpot, Master of Communication.In the week that one of the states in Australia has pretty much managed to pass assisted dying legislation I had to reach for this Jellybean recorded at the College of Intensive Care Medicine ASM in Sydney this year. The state of Victoria, where I personally reside, has almost passed the assisted dying bill. It has been a fractious and bitter process at times. But it is all but done. I have been...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 30, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean communication Death dying Steve Philpot 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

Jellybean 83 Pre-Hospital Medicine with Gregor Prosen
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog ED people doing house visits? Medical retrieval teams having a cup of tea and taking a detailed social history? Emergency doctors going to someone’s home before they come to the ED and recommending treatment at home? Including End of Life treatment? Sound Crazy? Ever been to Maribor? Slovenia? I spoke with Slovenian Emergency Physician and Pre-Hospital Gregor Prosen at dasSMACC. He talks like an emergency physician. He curses like an emergency physician. Gregor ju...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean gregor prosen Serbia Source Type: blogs

LITFL Review 306
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 306th 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 RebelEM unleashes his top 10 pearls from ACEP17 [LP] EPMonthly published an ER account of the...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 13, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review #FOAMped #FOAMresus #FOAMsim #FOAMus #meded FOAMcc FOAMed LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 82 with Wesam Al-Basaam
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Jellybean 82; Extraordinary tales of ordinary heroism. An Iraqi Story. The best thing about making the jellybeans is that I get to meet some thoroughly excellent people. While at the CICM ASM in Sydney I was introduced to a gentleman named Wesam Al-Basaam and he had a story to tell. When I say gentleman I really mean gentleman. Wesam is a consultant intensivist at the Austin Hospital. That is a pretty good job. It’s a very good hospital and most of us would be very h...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 7, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Austin Hospital CICM ASM Wesam Al-Basaam Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 82 with Wisam Al-Basaam
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Jellybean 82; Extraordinary tales of ordinary heroism. An Iraqi Story. The best thing about making the jellybeans is that I get to meet some thoroughly excellent people. While at the CICM ASM in Sydney I was introduced to a gentleman named Wisam Al-Basaam and he had a story to tell. When I say gentleman I really mean gentleman. Wisam is a consultant intensivist at the Austin Hospital. That is a pretty good job. It’s a very good hospital and most of us would be very h...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 7, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Austin Hospital CICM ASM Wisam Al-Basaam Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 212
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 212 – a “where in the world” edition from Dr Mark Corden – paediatric fellow in Melbourne. Question 1 Where in the world was insulin discovered? www.diabetes.co.uk + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1478966...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 3, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five appendicectomy artificial ear bionic ear claudius aymand cochlear implant frederick banting Graeme Clark hyperbilirubinaemia insulin Leonid Rogozov mestivier phototherapy pierre eymard Sister J Ward sodi 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

Jellybean 78 Toby Fogg – ipsa scientia potestas est
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog “ipsa scientia potestas est” Toby Fogg talks to Matt McPartlin about the ever growing Airway Registry ANZEDAR This is FOAMed. Thus there are a lot of people that are nothing short of obsessed with airways. It’s as if humans were primarily a giant “Pass the Parcel” game with a super difficult intubation inside. This will allow us individually to be the airway super-hero that we know we are. Or do we really know? We don’t have super powers. None of us ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 2, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean ANZEDAR Matt McPartlin toby fogg Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 77 Paul Middleton chats with RollCageMedic
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog In Australia alone thousands of people have an out of hospital cardiac arrest each year. Only 10% survive. It’s a very scary and dangerous rollercoaster. No better place to talk about that than under a real roller-coaster under the Sydney Harbour Bridge with Paul Middleton. Matt went to Luna Park in Sydney a few weeks back. Not to ride the roller coaster nor knock coconuts off their stands for a teddy bear, but to attend the Resus@ThePark conference. He took a few minu...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 19, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Paul Middleton Resus @ The Park Take Heart Australia Vivid Australia Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 016 with Charles Gomersall
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Charles Gomersall – Training junior doctors in the BASIC practice of intensive care How did you feel the first day you worked in ICU? Was it like walking on the moon? So foreign, because you didn’t understand much about the machines, the techniques, or even the words that were being used. That’s what it felt like for me, all those years ago. Thanks to one of my consultants who really “held my hand” on that first day, I was OK, but I wish I could have comple...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 18, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education Andrew Davies basic charles gomersall Mastering Intensive Care training doctors Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 074 with Professor Lars Lundell
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Lars Lundell is a Legend of Scandinavian Surgery. From small beginnings in rural Sweden to the biggest issues in bariatric surgery, Lars has plenty to say. This one has controversy, criticism, care, laughter and a lot of rat surgery. Professor Lars Lundell. Professor of Surgery Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm. What this man doesn’t know about the oesophagus is probably not worth knowing. What he knows about so many other things is worth knowing. Professor Lunde...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 31, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean ASM CICM CICMxJellyBean Lars Lundell Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 072 with Professor Jules Wendon
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Professor Jules Wendon is one of the leading lights in ICU medicine. This week we have a Wendon Double Bill here on LITFL; first Mastering Intensive Care with Andrew Davies and now a Jellybean with Doug Lynch. She traveled round the world to share her knowledge with the CICM ASM crowd. Share is the operative word, for she was here to teach, to listen and to learn. It was a pleasure to sit down and talk with Jules about positivity, collaboration and being a bit of a night ow...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 17, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: JellyBean Jules Wendon 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