As the Australian summer wanes to an acceptable 35ºC, the arrival of another exciting season with the Emirates Western Force looms on the horizon.

For me, this is my annual wake-up call to dispense with my homogenised milk caffeinated beverages, and don the running shoes in an attempt to alleviate coding induced sacral pressure sores.

Sadly the taunts and jeers from the bronzed and buffed young stallions in training provides me with little inspiration to reacquaint myself with my fitter younger self – instead I am forced to review the empirical medical evidence to convince my subconscious that cerebral perturbation burns less calories than cardiovascular exertion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaInS6HIGo

Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital. [Twitter] [Facebook]

On the other hand…

For those of you yet to be convinced…stay seated, and contemplate the age old question

What would the trunk of a tree sound like if a cross section of it were played like an LP?

With his creation Years, Bartholomäus Traubeck attempts to answer that question by using a turntable, PlayStation Eye Camera, a stepper motor to control the arm, and computer running Ableton Live.

 …if none of this works – settle with being inimitable

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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.

Below is the first 2 minutes of this amazing hour long documentary. I urge you to make the time to watch and digest the rest of the film – it will be an hour well spent

Desperate human circumstance and a wave of violent crime have put immense pressure on the medical system, which is now as divided as the country’s dual economy. With the on going US medical debate, the documentary provides a timely look into the much less glamorous side of the nation that hosted the 2010 World Cup Football Games.

References

• Snag Films (Website, Twitter and Facebook)
• Tell Me and I will Forget – Full Film
• GF Jooste hospital experience

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Late last year we completed a trilogy of textbooks relating to emergency medicine, toxicology and medical education.

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

Rules for reviewers

• Be subscribed to Life in the Fast Lane by email or RSS feed
• Send me an email letting me know which of the texts you would like to review, and why
• Enhance your chances by leaving a comment at the end of this post, sending me a Tweet on twitter or a Comment on Facebook or a Comment on Google Plus
• Cross your fingers
• The lucky winners will be drawn out of the proverbial hat on February 1st 2012…

Emergency Medicine Diagnosis and Management

Authors: Anthony F. T. Brown, Mike Cadogan
Edition: 6th Edition
Chapters: Additional reference material, clinical images and extended tables
Overview: Handbook of emergency and acute medical care. Utilises a standardised approach to the diagnosis and management of common conditions encountered in the emergency setting. Suited to a wide range of health and medical professionals

Publisher: Hodder (Order UK – Order Australia)

On Call Principles and Protocols

Authors: Mike Cadogan, Anthony F. T. Brown, Antonio Celenza
Edition: 2nd Edition
Chapters: Additional reference material, clinical images and extended tables
Overview: Handbook of acute medical care. This revised handbook based on Marshall and Ruedy’s original text is designed to assist medical students, nurses and junior doctors deal with common calls, the interpretation of medical investigations and managing patient-related problems with a symptom based approach
Publisher: Elsevier (Order Australia)

Toxicology Handbook

Authors: Lindsay Murray, Frank Daly, Mark Little, Mike Cadogan
Edition: 2nd Edition
Chapters: Additional reference material, clinical images and extended tables
Overview: Handbook of toxicology. Utilises a standardised approach to the diagnosis and management of common conditions encountered in the emergency setting. Covering the common toxicological emergencies and highlighting some of the more important elapid and marine envenomings.
Publisher: Elsevier

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Dr Newman helps us to tackle hyperbole and fear-mongering media head on by understanding the value of data in the age of information…

As health care professionals we all have a responsibility to help curate and deliver the most accurate information and help define the ‘truth that lasts” – we should not take this responsibility lightly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDB6iBOhuq0

Dr. Newman is the Director of Clinical Research in the Emergency Department at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. For the past ten years he has concentrated his work in medical evidence translation and appraisal. He is also the editor-in-chief for TheNNT.com, a resource for health care evidence summaries, and SMART-EM, a monthly audio review.

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Still nothing like a good book…

Despite the blogs, the internet chatter, real-time search, tweets and likes…there is still nothing I enjoy more than the musty aroma of a second hand bookshop, the smell of bound leather and the allure of the virgin text

The book is dead – Long live the book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8

After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West, (416) 366-8973)

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

 ― Groucho Marx

but remember…

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

― Groucho Marx

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Kos Greece – 12 – 14 September 2011

Joe Lex has just uploaded more than 170 free MP3 podcasts of talks from MEMC-VI on Kos Greece, from September 12-14 2011.  You can either search directly for talks on Free Emergency Talks, visit the YouTube channel, use the catalogue of links below to access them or wait for them to be entered into the LITFL podcast database…enjoy

Day 1, Plenary

• Patrick Croskerry (Canada): Diagnostic Error – A Case of Neglect
• Ziad Kazzi (Georgia): The Public Health Impacts of a Nuclear Plant Crisis in Your Backyard

Day 1: Resuscitation

• Marc Sabbe (Belgium): ILCOR 2010 Guidelines – Implementation in Different Environments
• Deborah Diercks (California): Updates from the International Committee on Resuscitation
• Scott Weiner (Massachusetts): Update on Prehospital Airway and Resuscitation
• Scott Silvers (Florida): The New ACLS Guidelines
• Marvin Wayne (Washington): Therapeutic Hypothermia Post Cardiac Arrest
• Marcus Ong (Singapore): Autopulse Mechanical CPR Device for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Day 1: Shock & Sepsis

• Vu Kiet Tran (Canada): Non-Invasive Tools for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Shock/Sepsis in the Emergency Department
• David A. Talan (California): Procalcitonin – How Useful Is It in the ED?
• Christoph Dodt (Germany): The Importance of the Autonomic Nervous System in Early Sepsis
• Abdel Bellou (France): Biomarkers in Sepsis – Are They Useful?
• Alan Jones (Mississippi): Lactate in Emergency Department Shock – What Does It Mean and How Do I Use It?
• Fernando Schiraldi (Italy): Full or Empty – Diagnostic Challenges for the Patient in Shock

Day 1: Toxicology & Pharmacology

• Kurt Anseeuw (Belgium): Cyanide Poisoning by Fire Smoke Inhalation – An Algorithm of Treatment
• Melanie Stander (South Africa): The Management of Ethylene Glycol Poisoning
• David M. Wood (United Kingdom): Novel Psychoactive Substances – Recreational Drug Toxicity
• Judd E. Hollander (Pennsylvania): Update on Cocaine Myocardial Ischemia
• Dianne P. Calello (New Jersey): Cyanide Toxicity – Cyanide Antidote Kit vs. Cyanocobalamin
• Francisco Moya Torrecilla (Spain): New Anticoagulants in the Management of Acute Entities Like Atrial Fibrillation

Day 1: Medical Imaging

• Hein Lamprecht (South Africa): The FASH (Focused Assessment of Sonography in HIV-TB) Scan
• Robert Jarman (United Kingdom): Lung Point of Care Ultrasound Scans
• Michael Drescher (Connecticut): The Role of CT Angiography in the Diagnosis of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
• Francisco Moya Torrecilla (Spain): CT for Management of Chest Pain
• Gregory Garra (New York): Ultrasound for Assessing an Ectopic Pregnancy – Pros and Cons of the Discriminatory Zone
• Jeffrey M. Freeman (Michigan): Ultrasound Imaging to Assess Increased Intracranial Pressure

Day 1: History of Emergency Medicine

• David Williams (United Kingdom): The Development of European Emergency Medicine
• Robert E. Suter (Texas): Hippocrates – Father of 19th Century of American Reformation in Medicine?
• Helen Askitopoulou (Greece): Emergencies & Acute Diseases in the Hippocratic Corpus
• Joe Lex (Pennsylvania): A Shocking History of Electroresuscitation
• Terry Kowalenko (Michigan): Presidential Assassinations – The Medical History
• Venkataraman Anantharaman (Singapore): From 3rd World to 1st World – Evolving an Asian Brand of Emergency Medicine

Day 1: Administration

• Mark Reiter (Pennsylvania): The “No Waiting Room” ED
• Darren Kilroy (United Kingdom): The Effective Clinical Engagement of the Emergency Department Team
• Matthias Brachmann (Germany): Key Performance Indicators for an Emergency Department
• Richard Wolfe (Massachusetts): Learning to Be a Department Chair – The Responsibilities of Leadership
• Howard Blumstein (North Carolina): Emergency Department Patient Safety Initiatives
• Barbara Hogan (Germany): Emergency Department Design Meets Lean Management

Day 1: Research in Emergency Medicine

• Gary Gaddis (Kansas): How to Start Emergency Medical Research
• Abdel Bellou (France): Evaluation of Research in Emergency Medicine in Europe
• Sean Gottschalk (South Africa): Knowledge Translation – Clinical Decision Rules
• Paul Barach (Australia): Assessing and Improving Team Performance in Acute Care Settings
• Leslie Zun (Illinois): Pitfalls of Emergency Department Research in the Area of Psychiatric Emergencies
• David A. Talan (California): Emergency Department-Based National Sentinel Network for Research on Emerging Infectious Disease
• Said Laribi (France): Networking in Research in Emergency Medicine – Description of a Great Network
• David Taylor (Australia): Research Ethics and Governance for Emergency Medicine
• Nicola Parenti (Italy): A Review on Clinical Governance in Emergency Medicine
• Robert E. O’Connor (Virginia): Research Director on a Low Budget
• Carlos Garcia Rosas (Mexico): Methods of Evaluation in the Emergency Room – MEXICO vs Mexican Official Rule
• Maaret Castren (Sweden): CPR and Cooling in Cardiac Arrest

• Pierre Carli (France): Trends in Prehospital Emergency Care in Europe
• Mark Leong (Singapore): Promoting Emergency Medicine Through Education

Day 2: Cardiovascular Emergencies

• Phillip D. Levy (Michigan): Phenotype-Driven Management of Acute Heart Failure – An Emerging Concept That’s Here to Stay
• Fernando Schiraldi (Italy): Arrhythmias Caused by Electrolyte Disorders
• Said Laribi (France): Epidemiology of Acute Heart Failure
• Franck Verschuren (Belgium): Organ Donation after Cardiac Death –
• Mark Langdorf (California): Diagnosis of ACS in the Presence of Bundle Branch Blocks and Pacemakers
• Swee Han Lim (Singapore): Calcium Channel Blockers – Most Cost Effective for Supraventricular Tachycardias & Atrial Fibrillation

Day 2: Paediatric Emergencies

• Santiago Mintegi Raso (Spain): New Challenges in the Management of Very Young Febrile Infants
• Kee-Chong Ng (Singapore): Preparing the Children’s Emergency Department for Viral Epidemics
• Gregory Garra (New York): Acute Phase Reactant Testing for Predicting Occult Bacteremia
• Indrani Sheridan (Saipan): Delivering Bad News When the Patient Is a Child
• Itai Shavit (Israel): Propofol Sedation in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
• Arif Tyebally (Singapore): Role of Children’s Emergency Department in Childhood Injury Prevention

Day 2: Disaster and Mass Casualty

• Efstratios Photiou (Italy): Risk Communication in Recent Disasters – How Did It Work? How Should It Work?
• Mark Leong (Singapore): Mass Casualty Decontamination in the Emergency Department
• Herman Delooz (Belgium): Disaster Bioethics – Taking Care of the Carers
• Ioannis Galatas (Greece): Are Hospitals Prepared to Deal with New Emerging Threats?
• Kristi Koenig (California): Public Health Policy in Disaster Medicine
• Elizabeth Devos (Florida): Psychological Issues in Disaster

Day 2: Prehospital Medicine

• Maaret Castren (Sweden): Identification of Sepsis – Is It Possible in the Prehospital Setting?
• Stephen C. Morris (Washington): Assessing Emergency Medical Systems in Low Income Countries
• Patrick Plaisance (France): Is Noninvasive Ventilation Beneficial in the Prehospital Setting?
• Brian Walsh (New Jersey): Should Prehospital Intubation Be Deferred?
• Raed Arafat (Romania): The Concept of Integrated Mobile Command and Control Center in the Management of Mass Casualty Incidents
• Brian Walsh (New Jersey): Prehospital Medications – How Well Do They Store?

Day 2: Abdominal Emergencies

• Roberta Petrino (Italy): Do “Belly Labs” Ever Help?
• Kevin Rodgers (Indiana): Evidence-Based Approach to Ischemic Bowel Disease
• Kevin Reed (Maryland): Key Features in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Care
• David Brown (Ohio): The Differential Diagnosis of Acute Flank Pain
• Nikolas Sbyrakis (Greece): When Abdominal Pain Does Not Mean Abdominal Emergency
• Christian Wrede (Germany): Undifferentiated Abdominal Pain – What To Do?

Day 2: Pulmonary Emergencies

• Frederic Thys (Belgium): Noninvasive Ventilation in the Prehospital Setting
• Arian Nachat (California): Alternative Medicine in the Treatment of Asthma
• Franck Verschuren (Belgium): Management of Pulmonary Embolism – ICU/CCU, General Ward, or Home?
• Christoph Dodt (Germany): Noninvasive Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure in the Emergency Department
• Robert McNamara (Pennsylvania): Additional Agents for Acute Asthma
• Paolo Groff (Italy): Undifferentiated Dyspnea – Emergency Approach and Management

Day 2: Administration

• George W. Molzen (New Mexico): Quality Indicators in Emergency Medicine
• Paul Porter (Rhode Island): The Administrative Role in the Difficult Emergency Department Patient
• Ruth Brown (United Kingdom): The Management and Organisational Issues of Integration of Residents in the Emergency Department Staff
• Jeffrey Arnold (California): Taking the ‘Dys’ Out of Dysfunctional – Lessons Learned from Turning Around Troubled Emergency Departments
• Anne Fontanel (France): Added Value of Point-of-Care in Emergency Departments
• Colin A. Graham (Hong Kong): Academic Excellence in Emergency Medicine
• Paul Porter (Rhode Island): Choosing the Right Emergency Department Tracking System
• Raed Arafat (Romania): Telemedicine for Implementing the Hub and Spoke System
• Seung Pil Choi (Korea): Implementing Hospital Side Changes in Dealing with Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome
• Gautam Bodiwala (United Kingdom): Establishing Emergency Medicine as a Specialty
• William T. Durkin Jr.: Impact of LEAN Techniques on Emergency Medicine Management
• David Thorisson (Sweden): Information Technology in Emergency Medicine

Day 2: Medical Education

• Terry Kowalenko (Michigan): The Impaired Physician – Substance Abuse in Residency
• Venkataraman Anantharaman (Singapore): Assessment Tools in Emergency Medicine
• Taj Hassan (United Kingdom): Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for a Web-Based Emergency Medicine Training Platform – ENLIGHTENme
• Helen Askitopoulou (Greece): The Diversity of Emergency Medicine Training in Europe
• Ruth Brown (United Kingdom): The UK Curriculum and Examination in Emergency Medicine – Evaluation of Method and Outcome
• Roberta Petrino (Italy): The Process for the European Board Exam in Emergency Medicine – Curriculum Applied to the Exam
• Michael Silverman (New Jersey): How Do You Make Sure Students Are Not Ignored by Emergency Medicine Faculty
• Eric Revue (France): How Students Differ from Residents
• Michael E. Silverman (New Jersey): Bedside Teaching
• Kum Ying Tham (Singapore): Hybridization of Emergency Medicine Training Programs
• Luan E. Lawson (North Carolina): Teaching Teams for the 21st Century
• Brad Bunney (Illinois): Use of Cadaver Lab in Emergency Medicine Resident Education

Day 3: Plenary

• Francesco Della Corte (Italy): Disaster Medicine – Moving Towards a New Academic Discipline
• Ed Sloan (Illinois): An Emergency Medicine Foundation – Joys, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned

Day 3: Trauma

• Colin A. Graham (Hong Kong): Futility of Trauma Resuscitation
• Joanne Williams (California): Permissive Hypotension in the Emergency Department – Pros & Cons
• Raed Arafat (Rumania): Avoiding the Lethal Triad – Hypothermia, Coagulopathy, Acidosis
• Carlos Garcia Rosas (Mexico): The Trauma Impact in Mexico
• Kum Ying Tham (Singapore): As the World Ages – Geriatric Trauma Resuscitation in the Emergency Department
• Christopher Lee (New York): Emergency Department Thoracotomy Controversies

Day 3: Neurologic Emergencies

• Frederick Fiesseler (New Jersey): Subarachnoid Headache – CT Angiography vs Lumbar Puncture
• Brad Bunney (Illinois): 3 Hour versus 4.5 Hour Window for CVA and TPA
• Luis Garcia Castrillo Riesco (Spain): Cephalea Alert Signals
• Juliusz Jakubaszko (Poland): Headache in the Emergency Department – Pitfalls and Treatments
• Edward P. Sloan (Illinois): Neuroresuscitative Skills Every Emergency Physician Should Know
• Andrew Asimos (North Carolina): ABC’s of Risk Stratification for TIA (ABCD, ABCD2, ABCD2I, ABCD3I) – Should We Be Using Any of These?

Day 3: Psychobehavioral Emergencies

• Carl Blijd (Netherlands): Aggression Management – Theories, Myths, De-escalation, and Prevention
• Heather Prendergast (Illinois): Atypicals Are Better Than Typical Antipyschotics for Acute Agitation
• Vu Kiet Tran (Canada): Treatment of Agitation
• Thomas Lukens (Ohio): Psychiatric Medical Clearance
• Nikolas Sbyrakis (Greece): Psychosocial Impact of Acute Illness – Injury on Emergency Department Patients – Time to Address the Problem
• Jana Seblova (Czech Republic): Crisis Intervention in the Emergency Department – Both for Patients and Personnel

Day 3: Environmental and Wilderness Emergencies

• Polat Durukan (Turkey): Snake Bite Envenomations
• Sean Gottschalk (South Africa): Nepal Expedition Medicine
• Jana Seblova (Czech Republic): Drowning and Hypothermia – An Update for the Emergency Physician
• Diane P. Calello (New Jersey): Radiation Antidotes – An Update
• Nima Majlesi (New Jersey): Ice Bath is the Best Method to Cool Hyperthermic Patients
• Richard Shih (New Jersey): Is Activated Charcoal Useful for Toxicity from Plant Ingestions?

Day 3: HEENT Emergencies

• Kevin Reed (Maryland): What Really Helps a Sore Throat
• Juliusz Jakubaszko (Poland): Rapid Sequence Intubation – A Good Option for the Emergency Physician
• Polat Durukan (Turkey): Spinal Trauma Radiology in Cervical or Head Trauma
• Kenneth Butler (Maryland): Current Devices in Airway Management
• Christopher Lee (New York): Vertigo – Differentiating Between Central and Peripheral
• Nausheen Doctor (Singapore): Benzodiazepines or Antipsychotics for the Acutely Agitated Patient

Day 3: Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine

• Rajat ‘Rip’ Gangahar (United Kingdom): IFEM International Point of Care Emergency Ultrasound Faculty
• Paola Molino (Italy): Emergency Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest
• Lisa D. Mills (California): Ultrasound in Hand Emergencies
• Joseph Wood (Arizona): Sonographic Assessment of Medical Emergencies (S.A.M.E.)
• Melanie Stander (South Africa): Vascular Applications of Emergency Point of Care Ultrasound
• Paolo Molino (Italy): Bedside Ultrasound in Acute Dyspnea

Day 3: Administration

• Kenneth Butler (Maryland): Emergency Medical Care at Academic Medical Centers and Community Hospitals – A Comparison
• Eric Revue (France): Overcrowding
• Mark Reiter (Pennsylvania): Safety and Quality Key Performance Indicators
• Nathalie Flacke (France): Knowledge Management
• Manuel Hernandez (Illinois): Use of Computerized Simulation Modeling for Process Redesign
• Paul Barach (Australia): Patient Handovers / Hand-offs
• Luis Garcia Castrillo Riesco (Spain): Technologies in Building a Hospital Database Network
• Gerald Kierzek (France): Medico-Legal Issues in Emergency Medicine
• Michael Christ (Germany): Reducing Mortality in Community Acquired Pneumonia
• Lisa Moreno-Walton (Louisiana): Mentorship in Action – Benefits and Techniques
• Nathalie Flacke (France): The Challenges of Female Leadership in Medicine
• Juliana Poh (Singapore): Prescribing for Common Conditions in the Elderly

Day 3: Research

• Gary Gaddis (Kansas): Knowledge Translation – Clinical Decision Rules
• Luis Garcia Castrillo Riesco (Spain): Data Mining Opportunities for Public Health Monitoring
• David Salo (New Jersey): Basic Research Statistics – P Values and Confidence Intervals
• Ana Maria Navio Serrano (Spain): The I.S.S.S. Study (International Score of Shock Severity)
• Brenna Farmer (New York): Toxicology Research – Fruitful Areas and Pitfalls
• Juliana Poh (Singapore): Using Research in Planning Geriatric Emergency Care
• Nausheen Doctor (Singapore): Asian Resuscitation Outcomes for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
• Roberto Cosentini (Italy): Research in Noninvasive Ventilation – Can It Be Done in our Busy EDs?
• Lisa Moreno-Walton (Louisiana): Pearls and Pitfalls in the Design of a Survey Study
• William Barsan (Michigan): NETT – The Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network
• Colin A. Graham (Hong Kong): How Original Studies Could be Published in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine or Other Emergency Journals

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The LITFL team wishes everybody a happy and healthy Christmas.

We would like to share some of our favourite festive tunes…First up a sentimental song about Christmas by the very awesome Western Australian… Tim Minchin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q

This version is taken from the Australian ‘Ready For This?‘ DVD. The December 2009 & December 2010 proceeds were donated to The National Autistic Society (NAS). Proceeds from worldwide downloads from November 2011 to February 2012 will also be donated to the NAS.

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Draw near, and gather round the wireless for this very Christmas edition of Funtabulous medical trivia.

We celebrate the festive season with a DOUBLE edition of FFFF and an eclectic mix of festive related questions to amuse and bemuse….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIxhXHds20I

Question 1

• A 2 year old boy presents with acute airway obstruction in March, following a 15 month history of ‘noisy breathing and hoarseness’. A lateral neck X-Ray is performed…What is the most likely aetiology?

Reveal Answer

Question 2

• Who created the modern image of Santa Claus? In what year?

Reveal Answer

Question 3

• The ingestion of which alcohol may result in “snow storm” vision?

Reveal Answer

Question 4

• Who wrote “A Christmas Carol”?

Reveal Answer

Question 5

• Which genetic condition(s) is/are most often associated with these features?

Reveal Answer

Question 6

• What is the name of this seasonal ophthalmological condition? Where in Australia does it most commonly occur?

Reveal Answer

Question 7

• Which syndrome characterized by the association of polycystic ovaries and incomplete emptying of the bladder associated with abnormal electromyographic activity?

Reveal Answer

Question 8

• Which year did “Santa Never Make it to Darwin” and why?

Reveal Answer

Question 9

• By which name is Type IIIb jejunal atresia with agenesis of the dorsal mesentery, more commonly known?

Reveal Answer

Question 10

• What is the eponymous name for Factor IX deficiency? Who was the eponymee?

Reveal Answer

…and remember kids…times are changing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9NhL3agUaw

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War drives innovation and in this series, Michael Mosley travels from the frontline of war to the frontline of research to uncover the medical breakthroughs that are coming out of current conflicts. This is the second video in the Frontline series (see Frontline Friday Inspiration 1 for the first episode)

The survival rate in Afghanistan is the highest in the history of combat – but this means people are surviving with dreadful injuries. Michael wants to find out what medicine and technology can do to help rebuild their shattered lives. From mind-controlled prosthetics to growing spare body parts and face transplants, he explores the innovations which are helping both wounded troops and civilians to overcome life-changing injuries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDdoqWZ9pdo

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In medicine, we are many and we are varied.

Our commonality is an insatiable curiosity and a quest for deeper understanding. Occasionally in glorious happenstance we trip across a limpid pool – and tarry a while therein. My most recent sojourn involves…

…a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.

99 percent invisible is an amazing radio show which examines how design (from architecture to language to everyday products) has shaped us, and how we have chosen to shape it. Each episode (…43 to date) is an immaculately produced 5 minute soundscape which unearths the unseen, defines the undefinable and magnifies microcosms which collude to make our world more efficient, meaningful and useful.

Roman Mars is the softly spoken and enigmatic host, producer and architect of this elaborate adventure into the underneath of things, and although impossible to pick a favourite to date I would like to share an episode to exemplify this audio delicacy

“Beethoven continued to write music, even some of his best music, after he lost his hearing…What’s more preposterous, composing music you can’t hear, or designing architecture you can’t see?”

Get on board and be enlightened. Check out the sound of sport, maps, flag design, a designed language, building pyramids and the RadioLab interview

“I’m sorry, but if you don’t love maps, I don’t think we can be friends any more.”

(Episode 13-Maps, they don’t love you like I love you)

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