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Jellybean 77 Paul Middleton chats with RollCageMedic
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog In Australia alone thousands of people have an out of hospital cardiac arrest each year. Only 10% survive. It’s a very scary and dangerous rollercoaster. No better place to talk about that than under a real roller-coaster under the Sydney Harbour Bridge with Paul Middleton. Matt went to Luna Park in Sydney a few weeks back. Not to ride the roller coaster nor knock coconuts off their stands for a teddy bear, but to attend the Resus@ThePark conference. He took a few minu...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 19, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Paul Middleton Resus @ The Park Take Heart Australia Vivid Australia Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 016 with Charles Gomersall
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Charles Gomersall – Training junior doctors in the BASIC practice of intensive care How did you feel the first day you worked in ICU? Was it like walking on the moon? So foreign, because you didn’t understand much about the machines, the techniques, or even the words that were being used. That’s what it felt like for me, all those years ago. Thanks to one of my consultants who really “held my hand” on that first day, I was OK, but I wish I could have comple...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 18, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education Andrew Davies basic charles gomersall Mastering Intensive Care training doctors Source Type: blogs

Privilege and Palliative Care
by Denise HessAn American pastor recently visited Australia and encountered a curious practice. At the start of meetings, any kind of meeting not just religious ones, she found it is common practice to begin with what is called an “acknowledgment of country.” According to reconciliation.org.au:An Acknowledgement of Country is an opportunity for anyone to show respect for Traditional Owners and the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Country. It can be given by both non-Indigenous people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.And it goes something like this:...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 11, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Tags: culture hess open access psychosocial race Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 074 with Professor Lars Lundell
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Lars Lundell is a Legend of Scandinavian Surgery. From small beginnings in rural Sweden to the biggest issues in bariatric surgery, Lars has plenty to say. This one has controversy, criticism, care, laughter and a lot of rat surgery. Professor Lars Lundell. Professor of Surgery Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm. What this man doesn’t know about the oesophagus is probably not worth knowing. What he knows about so many other things is worth knowing. Professor Lunde...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 31, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean ASM CICM CICMxJellyBean Lars Lundell Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 072 with Professor Jules Wendon
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Professor Jules Wendon is one of the leading lights in ICU medicine. This week we have a Wendon Double Bill here on LITFL; first Mastering Intensive Care with Andrew Davies and now a Jellybean with Doug Lynch. She traveled round the world to share her knowledge with the CICM ASM crowd. Share is the operative word, for she was here to teach, to listen and to learn. It was a pleasure to sit down and talk with Jules about positivity, collaboration and being a bit of a night ow...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 17, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: JellyBean Jules Wendon Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201, courtesy of Dr Hakan Yaman from RFDS. Question 1 What is the rate of severe permanent TBI in the Asterix comics, 0%, 25%, 50% or 90%? http://www.asterix.com/the-collection/albums/asterix-and-the-picts.html + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getEle...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five asterix CRP Death dying Felty's syndrome fingernail GCS head injury hospital Pain pencil RA rheumatoid arthritis TBI Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 071 with Charlie Corke and all things CICM
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog CICM x JELLYBEAN The College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand has an Annual Scientific Meeting every year. In 2017 the title was “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.” The organising committee have embraced #FOAMed. The best lectures will be made available for FREE on the Intensive Care Network and on the CICM-ASM site. They invited Doug Lynch to come along and have a Jellybean style chat with the international speakers and ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean ASM Charlie Corke CICM Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 010 with Imogen Mitchell
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Imogen Mitchell – An intensivist and Dean of Medicine focused on communication and clinical decision-making Do you seek the relative at the bedside’s help by asking them their opinion on whether their loved one is getting better or not? Do you even have families at the bedside on your ward round? Do you listen as much as you can in your end of life discussions? Professor Imogen Mitchell, a senior intensivist and Dean of Medicine from Canberra, Australia, sees talking ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 18, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Intensive Care Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies Clinical Decision Making communication imogen mitchell Interview podcast Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 197
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 197. The week have a first-aid feel to the questions. Question 1 What organisation celebrates 140 years, 70 years before the NHS? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1761494469'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1761494469'))...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five cafe coronary claude beck dangerous animal defibrillation Heimlich Heimlich manoeuvre horse ironman madonna buder St John's Ambulance Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 067 with Dr Hanna Kaade from Aleppo
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Under Siege. Under fire. Undergraduate. The remarkable journey of Dr Hanna Kaade; from Aleppo to Berlin and from the Red Crescent to #dasSMACC. This is an ordinary tale. An accidental tale of everyday heroism. There are many tales like this. Every one worth telling, worth hearing, worth learning from. Hanna Kaade is a Syrian born and trained doctor. He completed his medical training in a town under siege, in a hospital under fire, in the centre of a civil war at the cent...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Aleppo dasSMACC Hanna Kaade Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 009 with John Myburgh
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog John Myburgh – The importance of the intensive care clinical ward round  How important is the main daily ward round we do each day in the Intensive Care Unit? Is the ward round in your ICU focused and concise? Do you adequately communicate the plans you generate on the ward round to the whole ICU team? John Myburgh AO (@JAMyburgh), an experienced Australian intensivist, who began his life and career in South Africa, is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at St George ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 4, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies john myburgh ward round Source Type: blogs

World Sickle Cell Day
Better late than not at all... Monday 19th June was World Sickle Cell Day and our local CLAHRC has been conducting asurvey, which found that a greater awareness of sickle cell disease would improve patients ' experience, and that staff in emergency settings had a relatively poor knowledge.They have produced aninfographic.To improve knowledge, here are some resources (list also posted on theUHL Clinical Librarian blog):LocalProfessor Simon Dyson, De Montfort University, especially the Resources and Information page, which lists UK organisations and resources for schools. Professor Dyson has also produced...
Source: Browsing - June 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs

Advance Care Planning and End of Life (ACPEL) Conference
Discussions: A Randomized Controlled Trial and Video Intervention - Maureen Douglas, University of Alberta  4. Identification of indicators to monitor successful implementation of Advance Care Planning policies: a modified Delphi study - Patricia Biondo, University of Calgary5. The economics of advance care planning, Konrad Fassbender, University of Alberta; Covenant HealthSession 2: Health Care Consent, Advance Care Planning, and Goals of Care: The Challenge to Get It Right in OntarioHealth Care Consent, Advance Care Planning, and Goals of Care: The Challenge to Get It Right in Ontario - Tara Walton, Ontario Pal...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 15, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 008 with Dianne Stephens
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Assoc Prof Dianne Stephens – Developing a happy intensive care family by respecting and valuing everyone in the team How would you go if just after you finished your intensive care training you moved to a remote part of Australia to set up as a solo intensivist and Director of the Intensive Care Unit? That’s precisely what this week’s guest did. And by working hard, respecting and valuing everyone in the team and by communicating well, she led the development of a p...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 15, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Dianne Stephens ICU Source Type: blogs

An adolescent with trauma, chest pain, and a wide complex rhythm
This case was sent by Dr Avinash Krishnamurthy, a fine emergency medicine resident from Australia Cairns base hospitalCase:An adolescent male had a mechanical fall and injured his left shoulder and arm. There was apparently no syncope and he had no bony injuries, but he did complain of left sided chest pain. His chest was tender. A bedside cardiac ultrasound was normal.An ECG was recorded:Avinash was understandably confused by this ECG.He wrote:" ECG 1 - shows wide ???IVCD type rhythm ?? Delta waves in them and then his native rhythm, with ectopic pace maker?? "This was recorded shortly after:" Wide com...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 14, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs