A 35 year-old man was involved in a house fire and sustained extensive severe burns, particularly affecting his trunk and upper limbs. The patient is shown undergoing a procedure: [Warning: this blog post contains graphic images of burns]
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SurgeXperiences is a fortnightly blog carnival bringing together surgically-related posts from the best and brightest of the blogosphere. The Life in the Fast Lane team are pleased to have the opportunity to support the blogging community by bringing you SurgeXperiences from Western Australia.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five #003
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. The Life in the Fast Lane team accept no responsibility for the relevance to modern medicine, or the accuracy of the questions posed
New Blog Shout Out
Trawling this ever expanding medical blogosphere is intoxicating.
There are many great blogs that we read regularly most of which we found by chance or from reading the medical Grand Rounds or SurgeXperiences.
Occasionally though we stumble across amazing pieces of writing and knowledge presentation that few people have discovered. Two of the most promising blogs to [...]
Cardiovascular Curveball #004
A benign clinical history leads to an unusual chest radiograph finding and questions regarding its significance.
Ameritous Professor Broughton-D’Lirium
A/Prof Broughton-D’Lirium is a natural rabble-rouser, incapable of staying quiescent for more than one agenda item. His tirades of virulent invective usually falter when challenged by senate colleagues armed with an appropriate anti-invective agent.
The Levels of Eminence
Egerton Y. Davis IV spoke to an assembled horde of Genghis Khan’s descendants in Ulaanbataar today, the first stop on the 2010 UCEM World Tour. He made a key announcement regarding the formation of the new Center for Eminence Based Medicine now operating under the auspices of the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine: the introduction of a new ‘Levels of Eminence’ system to guide clinical decision making.
