Month February 2019
eponym LITFL 340

James Barry (Margaret Ann Bulkley)

Biography Key Medical Contributions 1826 – Performed first recorded successful caesarean section (in the English-speaking world) with survival of both mother and child Controversies Major Publications References

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Stuffed, Speeding and Busted!

Just before being busted by the cops, your patient stuffed a package containing metamphetamines into his mouth and swallowed. How are you going to handle this one?

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EMA June 2012

Short editorial snippets from Vol. 24 Issue 3 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online on 4 June 2012.

Super Docs 2.0

An insight to Crusaders SuperRugby, pitch side trauma and sports medicine management with Dr Deb Robinson

Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 340

The Wisdom of Crowd Review

Almost immediately after finishing ‘Time to publish then filter?’ - a post that highlighted a recent editorial in the BMJ outlining the need for an effective system of post-publication peer revie

Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 340

Time to publish then filter?

I came across this post while getting up to speed with Critical Insight, a UK-based online blog-come-journal club. It had a link to a recent BMJ editorial by David Schriger and Douglas Altman — you may remember David Schriger from…

Book Review LITFL 340

Clinical Neurology a primer

Clinical neurology a primer is written by leading Australian neurology Associate Professor Peter Gates. This book is the ultimate guide to neurology for people like me – who don’t understand it, but need to know it! Available in kindle edition…

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The Most Expensive Medical Equipment in the World

The elephant in the Health living room is the budget. The money is going to the wrong places and into pockets rather than into real improvements in health outcomes. The answer may lie with the science of clinical practice variation and starting a public conversation on the subject.

Stu Marshall on Airway Strategies

Stuart Marshall is an anaesthetist with a PhD in Human Factors and is the Clinical Director of Simulation Education at The Alfred (based at the Australian Centre for Health Innovation). In this FOAM video, created for the Critically Ill Airway…