Why do my hands feel so cold?
Ciguatera, the illness caused by eating foods contaminated by ciguatoxin, can ruin your day, week, or month. The problem starts with Gambierdiscus toxicus, a dinoflagellate that is eaten by small fish.
Month September 2018
Letters to the Editor 2.0
Scott Weingart gives an example of why the traditional 'Letter to the Editor' found in medical journals is dead. There is a better way!
Leave the Sim Lab Behind
Jesse Spurr recaps the SMACC Chicago in situ simulation workshop, "Leaving the Sim Lab Behind" (includes recommended resources)
Social Media and Knowledge Translation
Can social media bridge the gap between research and practice? This is the question raised by Paul Young, Chris Nickson and Dash Gantner in this month's edition of Critical Care and Resuscitation.
Lightning Injuries
An expert panel from last year's Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting have produced Guidelines for the Treatment and Prevention of Lightning Injuries
Learning to Take the Heat at #smaccUS
Resources and the run down for the "Learning to take the Heat" workshop held at SMACC Chicago 2015
FOAMed Mongolia
So brilliant to see #FOAMed resources being used around the world. Here is an example of resources being used in Mongolia...
Oxygen Without Lungs
This video features John Kheir from the cardiac PICU at Boston’ Children’s Hospital talking at TEDMED. The talk begins with the story of a tragic PICU case and leads to Kheir explaining his obsession with figuring out how to administer oxygen microparticles…
Jellybean 098 with Dr Susanna Price
Dr Susanna Price. The GUCH Jellybean. CICMxJellybean 2018 recorded at the College of Intensive Care Medicine’s ASM Hobart, Tasmania.
LITFL Review 347
Welcome to the 347th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on…
Hot lips
Your next patient is a 2 year-old girl who has sustained a burn.... to her mouth. See if you know your stuff in this case-based Q&A post.
Whitewater safety
It’s been a rough week in southeast Tennessee. Two people died in two days on Grumpy’s rapid past Ocoee Dam No. 2. Just how common is death due to whitewater rafting? Wilson et al reviewed 16 articles in the primary…