Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
Emergency Medicine education blog
Molvania will play host of the first UCEM conference of Waiting Room Medicine. The hectic schedule and workshops has been developed to provide experienced practitioners with an up-to-date, eminence-based, yet practical, overview of important and controversial topics in Waiting Room Medicine.
Ray Moynihan teams up with drug assessment specialist Barbara Mintzes to investigate the creation of female sexual dysfunction or FSD, and the marketing machine that promises to “cure” it.
The Man from Snowy River or The Man that is intellectually disabled, violent, and age inappropriate for a Nursing Home…challenges the 4 hour rule in South Australia
A 3 week-old newborn is brought in to the emergency department by her worried parents. A non-blanching rash has appeared overnight. How are you going to handle this scenario?
A few years ago I was looking after an elderly woman in the emergency department who had suffered a stroke. She was aphasic — unable to understand speech or create comprehensible sentences. I explained to her family what had happened to her. Then her daughter asked me a question for which I hadn’t prepared an answer: “What does it feel like to have a stroke?”
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…dealing with glaucoma, blood transfusion, sick US presidents, nursery rhymes and venomous snakes!
A previously healthy 15-year old boy presents to ED with sudden onset of palpitations while playing sport. On arrival to ED he is alert and pain free with a good blood pressure. Can you interpret his ECG and prevent him from coming to grief?
If you’re going to read one book this year on emergency medicine this would have to the one. Avoiding common errors in the emergency department is written by the who’s-who of emergency medicine education in the United States.
Molecular biologists working with a team of anthropologists have discovered a new gene that is set to revise the theories of social structure in humans.
