September 2019 • Life in the Fast Lane • LITFL

Month September 2019

CORE and FOAMres

CORE offers free access to millions of research papers and host the world’s largest collection of open access full texts. CORE is a not-for-profit service delivered by The Open University and Jisc

Mike Cadogan
September 29, 2019

Medmastery: prognosis and life tables

Franz Wiesbauer explains how to express prognosis with the help of life tables and why this is essential to understanding Kaplan Meier curves.

Franz Wiesbauer
September 26, 2019

FOAMed movement has facilitated access to myriad online educational resources and journals, previously locked behind a paywall. ecgwaves update for all LITFL readers who enjoy putting the F into FOAM...

Mike Cadogan
September 26, 2019

Portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead

In 1789 Savigny published a description of the construction and uses of a portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead, notable for it's catchy title and for the amazing prehospital resuscitation equipment replete with an ETT, NGT, OGT, bag...and rectal desufflator

Mike Cadogan
September 26, 2019

TEE Essentials: Assessment of the left ventricle

Medmastery: participants will have learned how to obtain the mid-esophageal 4-chamber view of the TEE Left ventricle (LV)

Franz Wiesbauer
September 26, 2019

Mastering Intensive Care 047 with Matt Morgan

Andrew Davies talks with Matt Morgan - Mixing science, history, emotion and humanity in telling Critical stories. Mastering Intensive Care Podcast

Andrew Davies
September 25, 2019

Ultrasound Case 103 Fire and Brimstone

A 38 year old woman presents with midcycle LIF pain. It is colicky and you are asked to scan her pelvis. Ultrasound Top 100 Cases

James Rippey
September 24, 2019

Medmastery: PPV and prevalence

Franz Wiesbauer looks at how a doctor can work out the probability of disease when confronted with a positive or a negative test result and how the prevalence of a given disease affects this probability.