What is Life in the Fast Lane?

LITFL is a Medical Blog and website dedicated to providing online emergency medicine and critical care insights and education for everyone, everywhere...usually with a healthy dose of UCEM good humour, and always with endless enthusiasm.
Our Team, headed by Mike + Chris, consists (mostly) of emergency physicians, toxicologists and intensivists based in Australia and New Zealand.
Our resources include an ECG library, clinical cases, a large dose of toxicology, our online textbooks, exam databases and research reviews.
LITFL is free and open to all --- we invite you to use our content in anyway that helps others learn, all we ask is that you spread the word about the eLearning revolution!

Featured Posts

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SEMEP Emergency Medicine Induction Videos

Iain Beardsell and SEMEP have kindly made their excellent emergency medicine induction videos free to the world! These are a great resource for doctors starting out in emergency medicine.

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What is the question?

What single question unlocks the mystery of how a patient with hypokalemia had a cardiac arrest 30 minutes after being treated during retrieval?

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The LITFL Review 057

The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care.

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Video and the Future of Education

Salman Khan speaking at TED tells us how he became a master educator of millions and how video could be the future of education.

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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 076

We throw into this week’s soup a sprinkling of viagra, a pinch of saturnine gout, and a dumpling of newborn babies. On top is a thick layer of Dr Thomas Neill Cream, and the whole thing is heated and stirred until a Mazzotti Reaction occurs.

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R&R in the FASTLANE 011

The 11th episode in our series of posts where some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.