November 2009 Archives - 3/23 - Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog

ICU Mind Maps

November 19, 2009 By Chris Nickson 3 Comments

New to Life in the Fast Lane is a collection of ‘Mind Maps’ encompassing the entire curriculum for the Fellowship examination of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Filed Under: Education, Intensive Care Tagged With: critical care, Fellowship Examination, ICU, Intensive Care, JFICM, mind map

Interview with the UCEM President

November 19, 2009 By Mike Cadogan 1 Comment

Interview with Sir Hubert Ignatius Thompson

Filed Under: Medical Humor, Medical Semantics, Organisations, UCEM, Video Tagged With: Interview, President, UCEM, Utopian Medicine

Life in an Urban (Legend) ED

November 18, 2009 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

Big hat tip to Shadowfax (aka @MovinMeat), author of the great accidental ER blog ‘Movin’ Meat‘.

Filed Under: Emergency Medicine, Video Tagged With: Emergency Medicine, humour, Medical Humor, urban legend

The Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine

November 17, 2009 By Mike Cadogan Leave a Comment

Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine (UCEM) – Taking Medicine To The People

Filed Under: Medical Humor, Organisations, UCEM Tagged With: Medical Humor, UCEM, Utopia, Utopian College

Radiological Oddity #017

November 17, 2009 By Mike Cadogan 3 Comments

34 year old male presents with suprapubic discomfort, tachycardia, hypertension and a ruddy complexion. Bladder scan determined 750mL of urine within the bladder and distal cause for urinary obstruction was sought.

Filed Under: Investigation [tests], What the, X-Ray Tagged With: oddity, radiological oddity, Radiology

Back in Black

November 15, 2009 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

After checking the patient’s observations and refitting his oxygen mask, the nurse heard the patient ask: “Are my testicles black?”

Filed Under: Nursing, Patients Tagged With: humour, nurse, patient, testicle

Australian General Practice and Social Media

November 14, 2009 By Mike Cadogan Leave a Comment

Griffith University is undertaking a nationwide survey in an attempt to explore Australian general practitioners’ World Wide Web, Internet and Social Media / Web 2.0 usage to deliver health care in the early 21st century. This survey is the first Australia wide study into general practitioners’ usage trends and impact associated with such modern communication applications and health care delivery. The study is being organised by Dr Wayne Usher and this is the Link to the survey

Filed Under: Bookmarking, Networking, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Culture Tagged With: Australia, facebook, General Practice, GP, MedConnect, Su.Pr, Survey, Topsy, Twitter, web

Food for Emergencies

November 13, 2009 By Chris Nickson 8 Comments

Different types of food can save lives in medical emergencies, or at least help take away a whole of suffering…

Filed Under: alternative medicine, Arcanum Veritas, Emergency Medicine, Fascinella, Homeopathy, Medical Humor, Toxicology, What the Tagged With: cola, cranberry juice, emergency, ethanol, flour, food, fuller's earth, honey, milk, peas, soft drink, sugar, vinegar

Fascinella #002

November 10, 2009 By Mike Cadogan Leave a Comment

Thermus aquaticus Despite the fact that Thermus aquaticus does not cause infection it is probably more important to microbiology than any other bacterial species. Yet few clinicians have heard of it. At least under its proper name. Many more will have mention of Taq, in ‘Taq polymerase’, the enzyme needed to run the polymerase chain [...]

Filed Under: Arcanum Veritas, Fascinella Tagged With: Fascinella, Thermus aquaticus

Quiz Medicine 017

November 9, 2009 By Mike Cadogan Leave a Comment

A 67 year old male presents to your urban district emergency department 1 hour post onset of chest pain. His ECG reveals acute ST segment elevation of 3mm in leads V3, V4 and V5. He is treated with aspirin (300mg), reteplase (two 10 unit boluses 30 minutes apart), and unfractionated heparin (5000 unit bolus and [...]

Filed Under: Exam, FACEM II, SAQ Tagged With: FACEM II, medicine, SAQ