
In this special episode of ‘Crime Scene Echocardiography: Vienna’, the 123sonography team show how echocardiography can be used for good as they put their skills to the test and try to solve a mysterious case of dyspnea in a 39 year-old man.
Emergency Medicine and Education Blog

In this special episode of ‘Crime Scene Echocardiography: Vienna’, the 123sonography team show how echocardiography can be used for good as they put their skills to the test and try to solve a mysterious case of dyspnea in a 39 year-old man.

Today I stumbled across what looks to be the first in a series of instructional videos on Ultrasound in the emergency department from a group of ED physicians in Nambour on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. This video is a great example of an elegant teaching style, recorded and video and shared with the world – great work guys, will be following closely to see what you are up to next.
As part of awful eye irritation, exasperation and enigmatic equivocation month at LitFL I give you Dr Root’s entertaining and enlightening Eye Trauma lecture.

As any biologist, doctor or medical student knows — your mum does a lot more than just give you half a set of genes. This song gives a fantastically geeky, or geekally fantastic — or just fantastic (according to @Jabulani9) — reminder of why we should all thank our mums.
A recent article in Emergency Medicine Australasia by a group of ENT clinicians looks at manipulation of nasal fractures under local anaesthetic in the emergency department. The authors have even created an online video tutorial to show you how to do it step by step.

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.

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.
In the future infectious diseases specialists will not only have human infections and zoonoses to deal with, but gizmonotic diseases (like computer viruses) as well.

What happens when a gang of echocardiography gurus from Vienna get together to make a website? 123sonography, that’s what. Franz Wiesbauer, Thomas Binder and colleagues have combined to produce a slick video-based teaching blog that comprehensively covers the practical art and science of echocardiography.
UCEM’s pharmaco-marketing gurus have been at work helping the makers of Cialis with their new R&D (aka advertsiing) campaign. Here is the end result.

Some of the cobras are venom spitters. Targeting the eyes of their enemies they can cause a chemical conjunctivitis and blindness. How do they do this?

36 year old female presents to the emergency department complaining of a swollen left ring finger having ‘pulled a hangnail’ from the finger 2 days previously. Examination reveals a swollen, erthematous nail fold with visiable pus present. Medical management of paronychia
With the winter season fast approaching it is vital that we reacquaint ourselves with one of the most important medical conditions known to man (masculus influentia). This condition is not to be taken lightly and should be treated with the respect it deserves.

Clinical videos and flash-based resources for emergency medicine and intensive care: lectures, procedures, imaging, examination, basic sciences and more.

The Medpedia.com project has added an index of Health and Medicine Videos. Medical videos are now freely available at Medpedia to be delivered in the appropriate context online. Videos can show up in a Medpedia article covering the same topic, it can appear in a personalized feed of someone interested in that disease, or in a patient community related to that condition.
A smoothly performed awake fibreoptic intubation is almost magical to watch. But not only is it an elegant procedure when performed correctly, it can also prevent people (patients and doctors) from getting into a whole lot of trouble…
Here Dr. Michael Bailin from Massachusetts General Hospital shows just how easy, and entertaining, it can be.
In an effort to reduce the number of comedy Emergency Department presentations, UCEM is pleased to endorse the playing of David Shrigley’s ‘Don’ts’ in all Australian Emergency Department waiting rooms.
All doctors find breaking bad news a difficult thing to do. No matter how well prepared you are for your patient’s reactions, the unexpected is always waiting around the corner.
LITFL is now listed on PANDORA
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