Category LITFL

Ever wanted to be a Clinical Forensic Medicine Registrar?

A term as a Clinical Forensic Medicine Registrar at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VFM) is as close as it gets as a doctor to navigating your way through the murky bowels of crime and experiencing the fascinating world of forensic labs, police stations and courts.

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EMA December 2012

Short editorial snippets from Vol. 24 Issue 6 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online on 6 December 2012 produced by Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown

EMA Journal 340 2

EMA October 2012

Short editorial snippets from Vol. 24 Issue 5 of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) published online on 9 October 2012.

LITFL CCC SMILE2 340

Extinguishing Medical Errors with Oil and Gas

Unfortunately for patients and healthcare workers alike, medical errors happen. No matter how well-trained and experienced the practitioner, underneath the scrubs there still resides a human and errors will follow. However, systems can be put in place to minimise them…

Forget Social Media… Get #FOAMed!

Of course SMACC — the physical embodiment of emergency medicine and critical care FOAM — wouldn’t have been complete without a Mike Cadogan rant. So, it was only fitting that he kicked off Day 2 of SMACC and the Social Media and Critical…

Conferences

SMACCtastic PK talks!

The first crop of SMACCtastic PK SMACC-talks have gone live - and they're awesome! You'll regret it if you don't watch these engaging presentations ASAP.

Conferences

Another Six SMACCers!

Here are the next 6 videos entered in the Pecha Kucha PK SMACC-talk competition being run as part of the SMACC 2013 conference. Yes, they are also awesome!

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Seizures, Sedation and Saliva

A 21-year-old male with a background of schizophrenia and previous intentional overdose, weighing 70kg, was brought to the ED via ambulance after having a witnessed seizure at home.