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Intensive Care Network

March 17, 2011 By Oliver Flower Leave a Comment

A new intensive care educational and networking website is being launched this week, and I invite you all to check it out: Intensive Care Network.

Filed Under: Australia, eLearning, Featured, Intensive Care, JFICM, Networking, New Zealand, Website Tagged With: Australia, eLearning, ICU, intensive care network, new zealand, social networking, website

Resuscitation Medicine Education

January 4, 2011 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

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A look at Cliff Reid’s fantastic website: ResusME – Resuscitation Medicine Education. A great way to keep up with cutting edge research and developments in life-saving medicine.

Filed Under: Australia, Bloggers, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured, Health, Intensive Care, Pre-hospital / Retrieval, Resuscitation Tagged With: blog, cliff reid, critical care, ED, Evidence Based Medicine, ICU, medical education, Resuscitation, resusme

Bullet in the Head

December 1, 2010 By Oliver Flower Leave a Comment

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A gun shot wound to the head provides the basis for a question-and-answer based discussion on penetrating traumatic brain injury and multi-modal monitoring.

Filed Under: Clinical Case, CT scan, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health, Intensive Care, Neurosurgery, Trauma Tagged With: brain tissue oxygenation, cerebral microdialysis, GSW, gunshot wound, ICP monitor, ICU, monitoring, neurocritical care, penetrating, TBI, transcranial doppler, traumatic brain injury

Utopian Waiting Room

August 27, 2010 By Mike Cadogan 3 Comments

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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.

Filed Under: Access Block, Administration, Council Executive, Emergency Medicine, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured, Health News, Health Reports, Medical Humor, Medical Specialty, UCEM, Utopian Medicine, Waiting Room Medicine Tagged With: CCU, GOMER, ICU, PSA, triage, UCEM, Utopian College, Waiting Room Medicine

Swine Flu Saves Lives?

January 5, 2010 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

Did the swine flu pandemic save lives? A response to Richard Lehman’s perspective on a recently published overview of the swine flu pandemic in Australia.

Filed Under: Infectious Disease, Intensive Care Tagged With: doc2doc, ICU, mortality, pandemic, richard lehman, swine flu

Top 10 Rules of Expensive Scare Medicine

December 10, 2009 By Paul Young Leave a Comment

The rules of expensive scare medicine…

Filed Under: Handy Hints, Intensive Care, Medical Humor, Top 10 Tagged With: expensive scare medicine, ICU, intensive care medicine, Learning List, Top 10

ICU Mind Maps

November 19, 2009 By Chris Nickson 3 Comments

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New to Life in the Fast Lane is a collection of ‘Mind Maps’ encompassing the entire curriculum for the Fellowship examination of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Filed Under: Education, Intensive Care Tagged With: critical care, Fellowship Examination, ICU, Intensive Care, JFICM, mind map

Swine Flu in ICU

October 10, 2009 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

A timely follow up to ‘The Two Faces of Swine Flu’ is ‘Critical Care Services and 2009 H1N1 Influenza in Australia and New Zealand’. This ‘hot off the press’ paper by the ANZIC Influenza Investigators has just been published online in the NEJM.

Filed Under: Australia, Infectious Disease, Intensive Care Tagged With: ANZIC, Australia, critical care, ICU, influenza, NEJM, new zealand, swine