Crippen’s Law

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Will dual trainees in emergency medicine and intensive care always succumb to Crippen’s Law?

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”.

You ask the questions!

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Key principles underlying SMACC are audience participation and the creation of FOAM. Help mould the conference by asking questions online!

What Weingart would do

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Trauma in the ER with no back-up: To pull or not to pull…. We find out what Weingart would do, and the outcome of this sphincter-tightening trauma tribulation.

Extubation in the ED

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George Douros from EDTEaching.com shares the protocol he’s developed for extubation in the emergency department.

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?

News from Essentials!

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Some news from the Essentials of Emergency Medicine conference in Las Vegas, great resuscitation talks by Cliff Reid online, and a rare chance to become a F.UCEM!

Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS)

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Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) is an exciting collection of free online protocols recently launched by the Neurocritical Care Society. It is backed up by a CME accredited online training course, but the protocols are works of art!

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!

SMACC DownUnder!

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The SMACC 2013 conference promises to the ultimate fusion of critical care and social media, the physical embodiment of EMCC FOAM…. See you there – along with the LITFL crew, Intensive Care Network, Joe Lex, Scott Weingart, Simon Carley, Cliff Reid, Casey Parker, Minh Le Cong and a host of EMCC big hitters.