Emergency Medicine and Education Blog
Emergency contraception has always been a difficult issue to achieve a consensus on, but family planning strategies are integral to a sustainable future human population. The opinions of certain societal elements have often resulted in the practices which constitute family planning being less than legal in some areas of the world. In particular abortion and emergency contraception have been unduly targeted, until now.
With increasing ED crowding and ever increasing waiting the Utopian College has produced guidelines to improve patient comfort and safety and to begin diagnosis and treatment for those stable and well enough to enjoy time within the waiting room – Waiting Room Medicine.
Ameritous Professor Broughton-Delirium noted with pleasure the official announcement by the WHO this week that the influenza pandemic was officially over. In a moment of psephological lucidity, he realised that this may explain the steady waning of local interest in pollyvirus infections. The supposedly great federal infection has, he insists, failed to ignite the level of concern and general panic befitting a true epidemic such as seen in Europe during the General Infection earlier this year.
It is with great honor that the Life in the Fast lane team and the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine host this weeks Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 45 on August 3rd 2010. The theme for this edition is ‘Killer Posts’. We asked the MedBlogosphere to trawl their blog archive and dive deep into the soul of their writing to find their best; most inspirational; clever; witty; well-researched; head-turning; gut-wrenching; magnificent; glorious requiem of a post…and they did! Each author has chosen their most deadly Aussie critter, and we have coupled each blogger accordingly…
Which came first – the chicken or the egg? This statement represents a causality dilemma. Causality is the relationship between an event (the cause) and a second event (the effect), where the second event is a consequence of the first. Despite millennia of extensive research, evidential debate and philosophical procrastination the answer to this riddle still remains a mystery…or does it?
In response to concern (baseless) that the recent uncovering of the Society for the Prevention of Surgery was in some way meant to discredit the invaluable work of our Anaesthetic colleagues, Professor Staghorn and the Board of UCEM have undertaken and exhaustive search of the literature and have found a recent clinical trial that may alleviate the inadvertent emotion pain we have caused.
This week the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine brings to you its second instalment of the patients we all love to treat. Enjoy!!
The Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine has endorsed three new instructional training videos to assist in the management of common Waiting Room presentations.
UCEM investigators have unearthed a shadowy organization known as the Society for the Prevention of Surgery. Prof Staghorn shows how to identify its members.
The UCEM has been led to believe that keyword search terms are essential to create a ‘viral’ marketing campaign for the new resuscitation guidelines and have decided to play with Pornography to start with.
Facebookville General Hospital has a number of well established Departments, some seriously important staff members and the occasional patient.
The Life in the Fast Lane team have combined with the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine to help coagulate our disparate colleagues to create a unifying hospital and departmental structure….well it beats what I should be doing, which is writing a presentation for tomorrow!
Professor Bristol, currently in Jamaica, announces a new UCEM-funded study to find the cure for anal retentiveness. Will transplants spell the end for this neglected disease?
Your first referral to an inpatient team can be daunting. As a waiting room MUPPET it is often your first opportunity to put into practice lessons learned from years of medical pimping. The UCEM hopes to demonstrate through a series of video tutorials, the alternate sloughing methods employed by internal specialists. Awareness of sloughing tactics will greatly assist in refining your referral skills.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the latest stop on the UCEM World Tour 2010 and Egerton Y. Davis IV delivers a mesmerising impromptu speech that unveils UCEM’s latest initiative, ‘The Poison Preview’.
