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Introducing … Resuscitology
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog The latest project I’m involved in – led by Cliff Reid with my FOAM friends Nat May, Geoff Healy, Brian Burns, and Karel Habig – has just gone live, it is: This is what it’s all about: A two-day residential course for resuscitationists in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia on May 9-10th 2018. A different course. Personal. Tailored. Intense in parts. Fun throughout. But be prepared to go deep. Your faculty have dedicated their lives to...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education Emergency Medicine Intensive Care Resuscitation brian burns Chris Nickson cliff reid course geoff healy karel habig nat may resuscitology 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

We Need To Make Sure We Are Optimising Our Approach And Use Of Telehealth Now The Pandemic May Be Settling!
This appeared last week: 18 July 2022Is telehealth the great panacea for rural health?Simon Judkins, Belinda Hibble& Stephen GourleyIssue 27 / 18 July 2022Instead of a telehealth explosion, where “we will get back in touch with you”, we need to refocus on a rural workforce explosion, where we can have clinicians and patients actually within hand’s reach of each otherOUT of a crisis comes opportunity, and with the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic marching on, opportunities to transform many aspects of our health care systems have flourished.One of the areas that has gained much interest is the potentia...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD 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

Mastering Intensive Care 009 with John Myburgh
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 Myburgh – The importance of the intensive care clinical ward round  How important is the main daily ward round we do each day in the Intensive Care Unit? Is the ward round in your ICU focused and concise? Do you adequately communicate the plans you generate on the ward round to the whole ICU team? John Myburgh AO (@JAMyburgh), an experienced Australian intensivist, who began his life and career in South Africa, is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at St George ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 4, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies john myburgh ward round Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 90 with Jessica Stokes-Parish – Simulationist
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Over simulated? Simulation; surely one of the fastest growing parts of health education in recent times. There is much more to simulation than a plastic mannequin and healthcare is but a small part of the bigger picture. Matt McPartlin went along to the Australasian Simulation Congress and spoke to ICU nurse and co-convenor Jessica Stokes-Parish. We sent Matt MacPartlin off to pretend to be a submariner, a jet pilot and an ICU Nurse. He wasn’t qualified for any of these...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 13, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: JellyBean Jessica Stokes-Parish Simulationist simulcast Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 029 with Simon Finfer
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Does each bedside decision you make actually help your patient to feel, function or survive? Have you considered how frightening and intimidating the Intensive Care Unit environment is to your patients and their families? Do you feel empowered by the people you work with and the culture in your ICU? Simon Finfer loves telling a tale. In this episode you’ll hear the story of the serendipitous and multi-national route Simon took to end up working for 25 years in one of Aus...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 8, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Intensive Care Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies culture ICU patients and families simon finfer Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
The objective most consistent with recent operations is to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, with a view to their eventual annexation and Russification. But not only are they some way from achieving that (w ith much of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands and the Russia position in Kherson highly contested) it would also require an explicit Ukrainian surrender for it to serve as the basis for a declaration of victory. That will not be forthcoming.-----https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-britain-giggled-its-way-into-crisis-20220710-p5b0giHow Britain giggled its way into crisisBoris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 05 September, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----There seems to be a good bit going on this week so lots to browse!The trial of AI in aged care was quite amusing in a sad sort of way ….-----https://medicalrepublic.com.au/whos-to-blame-when-the-software-gets-it-wrong/7586330 August 2022Who ’s to blame when the software gets it wrong?MedicolegalTechnologyByPursuitClinical deci...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 5, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs