Month July 2019
EXAM Library 340

OSCE Resources

18 OSCE videos for you to critique, make comments and discuss with your fellow trainees as part of your Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) campaign.

Ultrasound physicis LITFL

POCUS Physics 101

The first vid in a series on ultrasound physics: featuring a Beluga whale, a game of blind man's buff, and Fourier analysis of a dog turd.

Sir Percivall Pott (1714 – 1788) 340

Percivall Pott

Percivall Pott (1714-1788) was a British surgeon. Extensive work with hernia repair, hydrocoele repair, vertebral TB and his own Pott fracture

LITFL rebuild 2019 340

LITFL and the Hackocalypse

It has been 341 days since the original site lifeinthefastlane was hacked and white space Trojan code filled our server with deleterious effect. To date we have re-written, reviewed and transferred over 5000 pages/posts; and 1million words to our new…

ECG Library BASICS 340 356

ECG Rule of Fours

ECG Rule of Fours - aka ECG Interpretation Made Easy...On your arrival in the ER, the emergency intern casually throws you the ECG.

arcanum veritas LITFL 340

Letting Go

A few experiences in the last week or two have reminded me of the importance of Peter Safar's Laws for the Navigation of Life:

arcanum veritas LITFL 340

A Philosophical Death

It is sometimes forgotten that one of the most important goals of medicine is to help people achieve a good death. It is here that medicine and philosophy intersect.