What is Life in the Fast Lane?

LITFL is a Medical Blog and website dedicated to providing online emergency medicine and critical care insights and education for everyone, everywhere...usually with a healthy dose of UCEM good humour, and always with endless enthusiasm.
Our Team, headed by Mike and Chris, consists (mostly) of emergency physicians, toxicologists and intensivists based in Australia and New Zealand.
Our resources include an ECG library, clinical cases, a large dose of toxicology, our online textbooks, exam databases and research reviews.
LITFL is free and open to all --- we invite you to use our content in anyway that helps others learn, all we ask is that you spread the word about the eLearning revolution!

Featured Posts

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R&R in the FASTLANE 008

The eighth edition of our eminence-based guide to the evidence, where some of the best and brightest emergency and critical care docs from around the world tell us what they think is worth reading.

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The Registrar sits at the desk registering patients. Right?

Rick Abbot provides the ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’ perspective on emergency medicine training in Australia and the United States. He also figures out the difference between a resident and a registrar…

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A View of Emergency Medicine in Botswana

This ‘postcard from the edge’ is by Swedish Emergency doctor Katrin Hruska (@akutdoktorn), who writes a predominantly Swedish language blog called akutdoktorn.

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Friday Frontline Inspiration 015

Shot on board with the paramedics of Pretoria and Johannesburg, TELL ME AND I WILL FORGET illuminates the new social challenges in South Africa, 15 years after the end of its oppressive Apartheid era.

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Test the Textbook Trilogy

We are looking for ‘volunteers’ to read and review the trilogy of textbooks …and have 15 textbooks (5 of each book) to give away for FREE.

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R&R In The FASTLANE 007

The seventh edition of our weekly series of eminence-based evidence (back after the festive season hiatus)