Molvanian Entertainment

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Come see the Royal Molvanian Ballet Surprisingly, compared to The London Royal Ballet, The New York City Ballet and the Bolshoi, whose patronage each numbers in its thousands, thanks to its popular online performances, the Royal Molvanian Ballet Company boasts a customer base of over 42 million viewers per day!

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Time to challenge that cerebral cortex and put on those ‘mental’ dancing shoes as we trip the light fantastic of medical trivia, and lift the latch on the cage of the tiger of tease…the Funtabulously, Frivolous Friday Five…

Instructional Ultrasound

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First in a series of videos on Instructional Ultrasound in the emergency department – Ultrasound Guided Venous Access

The Tunneler

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I can’t escape its screeching cries,
Its siren serpents scorching eyes.
It draws me deep into the neath,
Below the wretches of the heath.

A gritty sticky red eye

Conjunctival injection

A patient presents with sticky, gritty, red eyes. A common and easy emergency department problem, right? Can you diagnose and treat all the different types?

ED Thoracotomy: Is it Just the First Part of the Autopsy?

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Thoracic trauma is one of the leading causes of death in all age groups and accounts for 25-50% of all traumatic injuries.

The Eye in Chemical

A 45 year-old is rushed into the emergency department by the triage nurse. He was working at a building site and got cement into his eyes. How will you assess and manage this case?

Odentophagia

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Procrastination and Neologisation met in a bar. Eponyms and retrodiction lay idle as they were enveloped by the dankness of stagnant learning, draped in the predilection of Morpheus. They begat an heir ‘Odentophagia’

LITFL in perpetuity

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You may have noticed a little purple box appearing in the right sidebar – this is the Pandora search box. We are honoured to announce that Life in the Fast Lane is now being archived by the National Library of Australia (NLA) and a complete copy of the website is now retained in the PANDORA archive to provide online public access in perpetuity.

Blinded by the Light

A man has intense bilateral eye pain and refuses to open his eyes after a day of welding, surfing and lying on a sunbed. What is the diagnosis and emergency management?