LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane

The Stolen Case

Clare Skinner
October 15, 2021

Friday October the 15th is International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Clare Skinner shares a story about loss and asks us to reflect on how we might care for patients and colleagues better. A trigger warning – discussion of…

Literary Medicine

De Winter T Wave

Ed Burns and Robert Buttner
October 14, 2021

First reported by de Winter in 2008, the de Winter ECG pattern is an anterior STEMI equivalent that presents without obvious ST segment elevation

Cardiology ECG Basics ECG Library

ECG Case 135

Robert Buttner, Chris Nickson and Emre Aslanger
October 9, 2021

A single agent overdose causing AV blockade, QRS widening, and QT prolongation.... but reports of death only if QRS > 200ms. Which medication is this?

TOP 100 ECG

WayBack – 25 years ago

Mike Cadogan
October 10, 2021

Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle, reflects back on the most surprising advancement of his early innovation, the Wayback Machine.

Medical History

Peter Kerley

Mike Cadogan and David Mountain
October 7, 2021

Sir Peter James Kerley (1900-1979) was an Irish radiologist. Kerley was widely published including describing (but not naming) his eponymous lines firstly in 1933 and then in again his textbook in 1950, and widely about TB diagnosis. Kerley lines A, B and C

Cardiology Eponym Radiology Respiratory

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Debrief: Resuscitative Hysterotomy

Oliver Flower
October 7, 2021

Debrief: Following SMACCForce Simulation Team of a Resuscitative Hysterotomy in a high-pressured situation.

Education & Communication Podcast Resuscitation Simulation SMACC

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Simulation: Resuscitative Hysterotomy

Oliver Flower
October 7, 2021

SIM team demonstrate a Resuscitative Hysterotomy/ Perimortem Caesarean section on a pregnant female involved in a high speed motor vehicle accident.

Clinical Crit Care Obstetrics Gynaecology Podcast SMACC Trauma

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Henry Janeway

Ciselle Meier and Mike Cadogan
October 3, 2021

Henry Harrington Janeway (1873-1921) was an American physician and pioneer for radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer. Janeway Gastrostomy, Janeway Laryngoscope