Robert Greene on Mastery

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Robert Greene talking about his book on Mastery, as recommended by Scott Weingart in his SMACC talk on “The Path To Insanity”.

What would Weingart do?

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Trauma in the ER with no back-up: a knife in the back. To pull or not to pull…. What would you do? Or better yet, what would Weingart do?

Letters to the Editor 2.0

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Scott Weingart gives an example of why the traditional ‘Letter to the Editor’ found in medical journals is dead. There is a better way!

Fluffing the backend

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Since starting the Life in the Fast lane back in 2008 and the medical blog has undergone many iterations. The author team has grown and following numerous altercations with search engine crawlers I have been drawn into the ‘backend’ of the blog

Our director Weingart in Sinai

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Fantastic verse found in an ancient tome in an isolated hospital in new Zealand extolling the virtues of the awesome Scott Weingart.

Befriend the bougie!

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John McGill and HQMEDED present a couple of fantastic videos on how to best use the bougie for emergency intubation (hat tip to EMCrit).

Own the Oxygen!

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Keeping your patient oxygenated during rapid sequence intubation has never been easier! Slideshows, talks and other resources that will show you how to master pre-oxygenation, apneic oxygenation and positive pressure ventilation to keep your patient from desat’ing.

Awake Intubation in Audio

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The second edition of Minh Le Cong’s airway management podcast is here. Minh talks to Seth Trueger, a chief resident and airway padawan of EMCrit’s Scott Weingart, about his experience with awake intubation in the ED. Essential listening if you’re thinking about introducing this fantastic technique into your own practice.

Ad Hominem Attacks on EMCrit

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A response to the furore concerning an Ad Hominem attack on Scott Weingart’s EMCrit blog. Will the perpetrator meet his or her downfall?

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 066

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It’s time to sprinkle some cement on your weet-bix and harden up, because here is another fistful of the funtabulous frivolous five!