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Airway Lessons from the Austere Environment
The Critically Ill Airway course, run by The Alfred ICU and Monash University, is taking place this week. Among the lineup of elite instructors is Dr Brent May (@docbrent), who  has created a 12 minute video lecture on ‘Airway Lessons from the Austere Environment’.Brent is a trauma anaesthetist at The Alfred, a retrieval physician with Adult Retrieval Victoria, and is Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix, Motorcycling Australia and Karting Australia. I asked Brent to speak on this topic because I believe that all airway practitioners can benefit from the lessons learned by those wh...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 4, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Airway Anaesthetics Education Emergency Medicine Intensive Care Pre-hospital / Retrieval austere environment brent may critically ill airway course prehospital Source Type: blogs
Calling all Educators! … Make a difference in ICU Education
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
It is an exciting time to be an Educator involved in critical care in Australia and New Zealand!
We now have an active interprofessional grassroots network working in collaboration with organisations such as CICM, ACCCN, ANZICS, ICN, ANZAHPE, and SMACC (among others!) to advance clinical education in critical care.
This Network seeks to:
promote and develop the Clinician Educator role
implement best practice education in critical care
foster education scholarship and resea...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Education Intensive Care adelaide ANZCEN Australia clinician educators critical care network new zealand unconference Source Type: blogs
Calling all Educators! … Make a difference in ICU Education
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
It is an exciting time to be an Educator involved in critical care in Australia and New Zealand!
We now have an active interprofessional grassroots network working in collaboration with organisations such as CICM, ACCCN, ANZICS, ICN, ANZAHPE, and SMACC (among others!) to advance clinical education in critical care.
This Network seeks to:
promote and develop the Clinician Educator role
implement best practice education in critical care
foster education scholarship and resea...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Education Intensive Care adelaide ANZCEN Australia clinician educators critical care network new zealand unconference 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
Why Don’t We Wash Our Hands?
Courtesy of the SMACC Podcast, my hand hygiene talk from SMACC Chicago has just been released… Enjoy!
Hand hygiene is widely regarded as the bedrock for the prevention of healthcare associated infections (HAIs). HAIs are among the biggest killers in modern medicine. Yet, hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers remains woefully poor.
Why can’t we learn the lessons that Semmelweis taught us nearly 150 years ago? If we can’t teach intelligent healthcare workers to wash their hands properly, what hope do we have as medical educators? This is both a patient safety and a medical education priority. Our patien...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 13, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Intensive Care SMACC chicago culture change hand hygiene hand washing infection control Source Type: blogs
Prof Montage 3 minute cardiology
The pleomorphic education revolution is upon us
In the FOAMed age I am constantly amazed at the resourcefulness of medical educators globally to produce high quality, entertaining, thought-provoking, stimulating and controversial multimedia…for free.
We are throwing off the shackles of peer review and boldly placing both feet in the anarchistic torrent of crowd-sourced education, feedback, commentary and response. As technology develops; broadband access to data improves and educators embrace the new medium – we will see an exponential growth in alternate teaching methods.
Prof Montage is a cardiologist practi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 12, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured FOAMed Reviews Web Culture Website cardiac physiology Cardiology clinical epidemiology medical education Prof Montage ProfMontage Source Type: blogs
Imagining the future
The ACEM conference in Hobart 2012 was an excellent event which juxtaposed art and science with inspiration and education in the setting of stimulation and entertainment.
Thankfully many of the talks and presentations are now being released for general consumption, and we will highlight some of the key speakers and talks on LITFL.
One session I was fortunate to be involved with was on ‘Imagining the future of e-learning and education’ with Prof Kendall Ho and Mr Stephen Atherton. Although this is a long 90 minute session and the slides appear intermittently – there are some great thoughts and learning p...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 21, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Blog Architecture Education Emergency Medicine Featured Networking Social Media Web 2.0 Web Culture ACEM Conference eLearning hobart Imagining the future Kendall Ho Stephen Atherton Video Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 032
TechTool review of Figure1 by Movable Science on iOS   Â
Website: – iTunes - Website
Figure1 is really what we have all been talking about in the FOAM world for some time. It’s a way of storing patient photos on your phone, taking consent and sharing them with others for educational purposes.
It’s only out in the US at the moment, but I’ve had a sneak preview to see if it’s up to expectations
Design and User Interface
The design is ok, but could use some work to improve it. The overall style and colour scheme looks great, but the photo feed doesn’t. All you see is giant photos in a long list â€...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 20, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews Web Culture android figure 1 iphone Tech Tool TechTool Source Type: blogs
Imagining the future
The ACEM conference in Hobart 2012 was an excellent event which juxtaposed art and science with inspiration and education in the setting of stimulation and entertainment.
Thankfully many of the talks and presentations are now being released for general consumption, and we will highlight some of the key speakers and talks on LITFL.
One session I was fortunate to be involved with was on ‘Imagining the future of e-learning and education’ with Prof Kendall Ho and Mr Stephen Atherton. Although this is a long 90 minute session and the slides appear intermittently – there are some great thoughts and learning p...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 21, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Blog Architecture Education Emergency Medicine Featured Networking Social Media Web 2.0 Web Culture ACEM Conference eLearning hobart Imagining the future Kendall Ho Stephen Atherton Video Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 032
TechTool review of Figure1 by Movable Science on iOS   Â
Website: – iTunes - Website
Figure1 is really what we have all been talking about in the FOAM world for some time. It’s a way of storing patient photos on your phone, taking consent and sharing them with others for educational purposes.
It’s only out in the US at the moment, but I’ve had a sneak preview to see if it’s up to expectations
Design and User Interface
The design is ok, but could use some work to improve it. The overall style and colour scheme looks great, but the photo feed doesn’t. All you see is giant photos in a long list â€...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 20, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews Web Culture android figure 1 iphone Tech Tool TechTool Source Type: blogs
EMCrit Talks SMACC GOLD
The build up to SMACC GOLD has well and truly begun — remember March 19th to 21st 2014 on the Gold Coast in Australia, with limited places for the amazing workshops on March 18th 2014 (think airway workshop with Weingart, Levitan and Le Cong or an education workshop with Rogers, Brazil, Mallemat and Carley… plus lots, lots more!)
Our fearless leader on the SMACC organising committee, Roger Harris (@RogerRDHarris), was over in New York recently and got to do an EMCrit podcast on the upcoming conference. You’ll also hear Scott Weingart’s (@emcrit) own glowing appraisal of the conference.
Check out EMCri...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 8, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care Resuscitation SMACC Conference emcrit FOAM roger harris scott weingart SMACC GOLD Source Type: blogs
smaccGOLD Registration Opens Monday!
We’ve been getting plenty of tweets and emails asking when smaccGOLD registrations will open…
Wonder no more.
The smaccGOLD online registration goes live this Monday 16th September 2013 at 8am Sydney EST — which, for those around the world, is 11pm Sunday 15th in London, 6pm Sunday 15th in New York and 6am Monday 16th in Perth, Western Australia.
Use this link to register once registration goes live.
Be sure to check out the workshops too — being held a day earlier on the 18th March 2014 — there are lots of them!
Be warned, we are expecting the workshops to sell out super fast as numbers are lim...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 14, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care Resuscitation SMACC 2014 Conference registration smaccGOLD Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 039
TechTool review Epocrates Bugs + Drugs by Epocrates on iOS    Â
Website: – iTunes - Website
Bugs + Drugs uses cloud-based information on bugs and their sensitivities. Epocrates has joined up with athenahealth to create this app. athenahealth provides data from its electronic health records (it has 15 million patients) and that information is geo-analysed and presented to you by Epocrates.
Essentially you can view geographically-targeted information about the bugs and sensitivities that are prevalent.
The aim is to help you decide on the best antibiotic treatment for your patient, while waiting for the cul...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured athenahealth epocrates iOs iphone Reviews Tech Tool TechTool Source Type: blogs
