Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 284
Dr Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 284
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 284 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 21, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF Abraham Lincoln Basedow Basedow disease Consent Die Glotzaugen-cachexie Doc Martin Gone with the Wind syndrome Google-eyed cachexia House Karl Adolph von Basedow Marfan Syndrome MEN2B Nurse Jackie Pareto Principle pharma Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 097
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 097
A 47 year old previously healthy man presents with sore throat / neck, dry cough and shortness of breath for 2 weeks. This had not improved despite inhalers and a course of antibiotics. He also describes widespread aches and pains including in both calves. There is some swelling in his right lower neck and you wonder whether it is lymphadenopathy, an abscess or something else. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 16, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound André Lemierre André-Alfred Lemierre Armand Trousseau Fusobacterium necrophorum gastric malignancy Lemierre syndrome reniform Top 100 ultrasounds Trousseau syndrome visceral malignancy Source Type: blogs
ECG Case 116
Dr John Larkin ECG Case 116
These ECGs were taken from a 40 yr old male who presented with a 60 minute history of central chest pain. Describe and interpret his ECG (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 15, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr John Larkin Tags: TOP 100 ECG critical LAD stenosis ECG Quiz Wellens Syndrome Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 283
Dr Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 283
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 283 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 14, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF ankylosing spondylitis ECG Get out of Jail Card HLA inland taipan McGinn McGinn-White narcolepsy PE Pimping S1Q3T3 venom Windkessel effect Source Type: blogs
There can only be not enough beds
Dr Mike Cadogan There can only be not enough beds
Winter is upon us. Olde Utopian saying. There can only be not enough beds... (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 12, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Medical Satire access block bed block flu season medical humor medical humour Source Type: blogs
History of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Dr Mike Cadogan History of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Walt Whitman’s poem sings the praises of life as a metaphor for the long and fascinating history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation... (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponymythology Medical History Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR Francesco Adami Mechanical Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 096
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 096
A 40 year old man presents describing sudden calf pain that occurred when he was playing tennis. Describe and interpret his ultrasound (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound Baker cyst Musculoskeletal Plantaris muscle Plantaris muscle rupture Top 100 ultrasounds Source Type: blogs
Clinical Anatomy for Emergency Medicine
Dr Mike Cadogan Clinical Anatomy for Emergency Medicine
Collation of Andy Neill's amazing series of Anatomy For Emergency Medicine Podcasts and Visual Resources (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: LITFL Andy Neill BSCC clinical anatomy Source Type: blogs
An unusual wrist injury
Dan Stevens An unusual wrist injury
Dislocation of the distal radio-ulna joint (DRUJ) is a rare injury, particularly when it occurs without associated fractures of the distal radius and ulna. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 9, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dan Stevens Tags: Clinical Cases Orthopaedics Bone and Joint Bamboozler Dislocation distal radioulnar joint DRUJ DRUJ dislocation volar distal radial ulna joint volar distal radial ulna joint dislocation wrist injury Source Type: blogs
ECG Case 115
Dr John Larkin ECG Case 115
ECG of a 71 y/o male who presented with several episodes of ischaemic sounding chest pain on a background of known ischaemic cardiac disease. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 8, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr John Larkin Tags: TOP 100 ECG ECG Quiz QRS Fragmentation Source Type: blogs
Teaching Practical Skills with SETT UP
Dr Andrew Tabner Teaching Practical Skills with SETT UP
Teaching practical procedures on the shop floor, the five stage approach to SETT UP for success (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 7, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Andrew Tabner Tags: Procedure SMILE2 complexity matrix education model reflective competence SETT UP unconsciously competent Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 282
Dr Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 282
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 282 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 7, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF airline alcohol Camptodactyly CDC Danish drunk feet flights Ganser syndrome Landouzy lipoma Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy Meningitis meningitis prophylaxis tongue tongue swelling Source Type: blogs
Physician Suicide
Dr Andrew Tabner Physician Suicide
A friend of mine killed himself recently. This is a call to arms. As a profession it’s time for us to wake up to this problem, and to act. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 6, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Andrew Tabner Tags: SMILE2 Wellness Physician Suicide Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 095
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 095
A 44 year old woman presents with calf pain after a long hike followed by a long flight. Her upper medial calf is particularly tender. You consider Baker's cyst, calf muscle tear and DVT the most likely differentials. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 4, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound deep vein thrombosis DVT gastrocnemius Top 100 ultrasounds Vascular ultrasound Source Type: blogs
ECG Case 114
Dr John Larkin ECG Case 114
20 yr old female who presented to the Emergency Department following an episode of chest pain. At review she was pain free and all vital signs were normal. Her serial ECG's are below, there is ~30 mins between each ECG. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 4, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr John Larkin Tags: TOP 100 ECG Cardiac T-wave memory ECG Quiz Pre-excitation Syndrome WPW Source Type: blogs
