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The LITFL Review 005

February 7, 2011 By Kane Guthrie Leave a Comment

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LITFL Review a regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneak peaks and shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, Blog News, Bloggers, Education, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health, Intensive Care, LITFL review, Medical Specialty, Reviews, Website Tagged With: Bath Salts, brown recluse spider, Delayed Sequence Intubation, Diagnostic Decision Making, Extracorporeal CPR, Fentanyl Patches, Fish Hook Removal, medical error, MRSA, Turtle Bite, Vital Signs

Lost in Translation

July 28, 2010 By Mike Cadogan 8 Comments

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Whether it is interpreting a physicians handwriting, transcribing the muffled rants of the dictating clinician or battling the auto-correct function of microsoft word…meaning can sometimes be lost in translation…

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation [tests], Medical Humor, X-Ray Tagged With: dictation, handwriting, medical error, Medical Humor, transcribing

Broken-hearted chest drain

December 3, 2009 By Paul Young 3 Comments

This 86 year old male presented with shortness of breath. He developed a complication after insertion of a left chest drain.

Filed Under: CT scan, Procedure Tagged With: chest drain, CT, error, intercostal catheter complications, medical error, Radiology, sentinal event