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.
Instructional Ultrasound
August 20, 2010 By View Comments
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.
Ultrasound Village
August 16, 2010 By View Comments
At last! Ultrasound Village, the awesome emergency medicine ultrasound educational website, is finally welcoming prospective villagers – find out all about it!
Fellowship Update
August 10, 2010 By View Comments
Quick update on Aussie Fellowship education sites for all those of you who are nervously waiting to sit the written portion of your ACEM Fellowship examination…
There are an increasing number of resources available to candidates of varying quality
The Life in the Fast Lane team have created pages for VAQ, MCQ and SAQ comprising past questions and we are completing the Short, Long and SCE sections of the examination.
Case-based Q&A eLearning
July 21, 2010 By View Comments
The rationale behind the ever-growing collection of Case-based Q&As on Life in the Fast Lane and what its all about.
123sonography
May 27, 2010 By View Comments
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.
Elbow Dislocation
January 4, 2010 By View Comments
Elbow dislocations constitute 10% to 25% of all injuries to the elbow. The elbow is one of the most commonly dislocated joints in the body, with an average annual incidence of acute dislocation of 6 per 100,000 persons. Among injuries to the upper extremity, dislocation of the elbow is second only to dislocation of the shoulder.
Podcasts for Emergency Physicians
July 3, 2009 By View Comments
What are podcasts? The word ‘podcast’ is the bastard offspring of broadcasting and iPod. Podcasts are a series of digital media files, either audio or video (aka vodcasts), that are downloaded automatically by subscription to a feed. Podcasts can be accessed over the web with most types of media playing software. They can be made [...]
Academic Earth Open Source Lecture Series
March 8, 2009 By View Comments
Academic Earth aims to give everyone on earth open access to a world-class education. They have built a ‘user-friendly educational ecosystem’ that allows internet users all around the globe to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. The interface is slick, the content high quality [...]
Medical Update Australia
January 20, 2009 By View Comments
Introducing a new website ‘Medical Update‘ designed to provide Australian medical practitioners with free virtual access to educational conferences and meetings has launched. Medical Update Pty Ltd director Gary Smith said video and power point slides from events from around the country are uploaded on to the site – MedicalUpdate.com.au – where they are easily [...]
Health Sciences Online
December 18, 2008 By View Comments
Health Sciences Online (HSO) has launched claiming to be a ‘virtual learning center’ which aims to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge using the search technology of Vivisimo. HSO (www.hso.info) is a portal with browse and search functions with access to a comprehensive collection of top-quality courses and references in medicine, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, basic sciences, and other health sciences disciplines.
Venous Thromboembolism – Lecture Notes
November 27, 2008 By View Comments
Aetiology: Venous Thromboembolism Acute provoking risk factors: hospitalisation, surgery, trauma or fracture of lower limbs or pelvis, immobilisation incl plaster cast, long haul travel, recent oestrogen therapy in last 2 weeks, IV device such as cannula. Chronic predisposing factors: Inherited: Protein C, S, antithrombin III deficiency, Factor V Leiden, Prothrombin gene 20210A mutation. Chronic predisposing [...]
BodyMaps Human Atlas
October 22, 2008 By View Comments
Body maps is an online human atlas currently in beta testing phase at present. Body maps of adult male, adult female and child are available. Navigation is simple using the ‘system tree’ menu on the left of the screen and it is possible to view the cardiovascular, muscular, lymphatic, nervous, respiratory and reproductive systems independently or in combination to enhance spatial orientation.
