LITFL and the Hackocalypse
Dr Mike Cadogan LITFL and the Hackocalypse It has been 341 days since the original site lifeinthefastlane was hacked and white space Trojan code filled our server with deleterious effect. To date we have re-written, reviewed and transferred over 5000 pages/posts; and 1million words to our new home at LITFL.com and have so far managed to evade the contagion thanks to our […] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: LITFL Hackocalypse Rebuild Trojan Update Virus Source Type: blogs

Ultrasound Case 100
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 100 A 70 year old male presents with fever and right upper quadrant pain. Describe the findings on ultrasound (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 7, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound Acute cholecystitis Champagne gallbladder effervescent gallbladder Emphysematous cholecystitis Top 100 ultrasounds Source Type: blogs

Guillain –Barré syndrome
Dr Jeremy Rogers Guillain–Barré syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome is the most common and severe acute inflammatory paralytic neuropathy. The classical description of GBS involves rapidly progressive bilateral weakness, usually starting in the distal lower extremities and ascending proximally. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Jeremy Rogers Tags: Eponymictionary Neurology André Strohl Charles Miller Fisher Georges Charles Guillain Guillain-Barré syndrome Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome Guillian-Barré Syndrome Jean-Alexandre Barré Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry Miller Fisher sy Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 286
Dr Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 286 It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 286 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF alveolar echinoccosis Aragon benoates bituminous Brown-Sequard cinnamon Clenbuterol cystic echinococosis Diabetes mellitus erectile dysfunction Himalayas hydatid isease Lowenstein splint penile prothesis pi pie pylor Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 136
Dr Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 136 Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 136 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 4, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF George Papanicolaou James Parkinson MRI Pap smear Pap test Paul Christian Lauterbur Samter Triad Zeugmatography Source Type: blogs

ECG Rule of Fours
Dr Gerard Fennessy ECG Rule of Fours aka ECG Interpretation Made Easy One day, in a town not too far from here, the ICU registrar (you) is admitting a 60 year old male, who has just been brought into the emergency department with profound weakness, and needed to be intubated for respiratory failure. They were struggling in the ER, all resuscitation bays […] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 3, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Gerard Fennessy Tags: Cardiology ECG Basics ECG interpretation rule of four Rule of Fours Source Type: blogs

Learning by Spaced Repetition
Dr Chris Nickson Learning by Spaced Repetition Learning by spaced repetition is a useful strategy for long-term knowledge acquisition in medicine. But what is spaced repetition and how can you put it into practice? (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Chris Nickson Tags: Education SMILE2 active learning Anki Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve Francis Bacon Hermann Ebbinghaus interval learning memory recall spaced repetition Source Type: blogs

Ultrasound Case 099
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 099 A 27 year old man presents with 10 hours of right testicular pain. He suffered minor trauma to the testis 20 hours prior to presentation and attributed the severe pain and swelling to that (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 29, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound Cord knot detorsion ischaemic testis testes testicles testicular ischaemia testicular pain testicular torsion Top 100 ultrasounds whirlpool sign Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 285
Dr Mark Corden Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 285 Language is a powerful tool. Authors, poets and orators are celebrated in their fields around the world. And although eponyms are been used with reducing frequency, medicine is still able to use the language of multiple cultures in its rich tapestry...Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 284 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 28, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mark Corden Tags: FFFF angor animi Cicely Delphine Williams Cicely Williams Cri du Chat Cri du Chat Syndrome Jérôme Lejeune John Alfred Ryle Kwashiokor Kwashiorkor Lejeune syndrome Nocebo effect Source Type: blogs

Oslerus osleri
Dr Mike Cadogan Oslerus osleri Sir William Osler was a man of not inconsiderable talent. A pathologist and clinician. A professor successively at McGill University, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and Oxford University. Historian and bibliographer of medicine. A naturalist, microscopist, proponent of comparative physiology…and a veterinarian The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers […] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 27, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponymictionary Infectious Disease Filaria osleri Filaroides osleri Osler node Oslerus Oslerus osleri Sir William Osler Strongylus canis bronchialis Source Type: blogs

ECG Case 118
Dr John Larkin ECG Case 118 This ECG is from a 35 yr old male Type 1 diabetic. He presents feeling generally unwell with abdominal pain and dyspnea. Interpret the ECG (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 26, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr John Larkin Tags: TOP 100 ECG ECG Quiz Hyperkalaemia hyperkalemia pseudo-Brugada Source Type: blogs

How to ace a consultant interview
Dr Chris Nickson How to ace a consultant interview Sitting mentally preparing for a job interview? Dr Clare Skinner shares 15 solid gold tips for how to ace the consultant interview! (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 25, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Chris Nickson Tags: Administration Education Clare Skinner claski consultant interview job job interview specialist Top 10 Source Type: blogs

Medicine, mindfulness, movement, mental (ill)health and creativity
Dr Chris Nickson Medicine, mindfulness, movement, mental (ill)health and creativity Dr Elizabeth Winson gives her take on medicine, mindfulness, movement, mental (ill)health and creativity. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 23, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Chris Nickson Tags: FFFF Intensive Care LITFL creativity Elizabeth Winson exercise medicine mental health mental illness mindfulness Source Type: blogs

Ultrasound Case 098
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 098 A 55 year old man presents with upper calf tenderness and slight swelling. He has just returned from trekking in Nepal. He has a minor knee effusion clinically with tender subtle swelling of his upper calf. You consider the probable differential as DVT, calf muscle injury and Baker's cyst with or without rupture. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 23, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound Baker cyst Baker's cyst speech bubble Top 100 ultrasounds Source Type: blogs

ECG Case 117
Dr John Larkin ECG Case 117 ECG of a 14yr old female who presents following an episode of palpitations and associated dizziness. Interpret her ECG using the Arruda algorithm (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 22, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr John Larkin Tags: Cardiology Pediatrics TOP 100 ECG Arruda algorithm EKG Milstein algorithm Wolff-Parkinson-White WPW Source Type: blogs