Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
Emergency Medicine education blog
Human health, like everything under (and around) the sun, is subject to the relentless progress of entropy. Ice melts, iron rusts, people age and die. Nothing in medicine changes the fact that our overall mortality rate is always 100%. BitingTheDust’s ‘Wreck of the Week’ is a potent visual reminder of this unchangeable law of the universe.
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.
A review of current thoughts on assessing a potential scaphoid fracture in the Emergency Department
Elsevier launches MDConsult – the Australian Version. Australian physicians now have access to more local content, including drug information from the Australian Medicines Handbook, Australian journals content and a growing list of practice guidelines from Australian societies, colleges and government agencies.
Book review on Cases in Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Medicine by Daniel Ellis and Matthew Hooper. Excellent book for pre-hospital and retrieval clinicians.
Risk in Emergency medicine – what is it, how to doctors assess it and how they make decisions? How can we make things better? Some answers, more questions.
To maintain our ameritocratic Professorial ranking structure it is essential that we hand pick our nonpareil leadership and abstain from the randir of a common members vote.
Towards the end of this year will bring about the newly developed evidence based guidelines for resuscitation and advance life support.
Consider a 49 year female old smoker with two weeks of increasing shortness of breath. She is being treated for pneumonia on the ward for three days but getting worse. An ICU review is performed on the ward and the following ECG is obtained.
