Lover not a fighter
A distinctly uncommunicative man says he injured his hand in a fall. What is the diagnosis, the mechanism and how will you treat the injury?
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Microwave Meltdown
An ambulance crew have radioed through to the emergency department. They are en route with a patient who has sustained a 'microwave injury'…
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!
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...
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.
Let’s talk about dying
Peter Saul, an Australian intensivist, presents a TEDx talk in which he tells of the crisis of death in the 21st century and implores us all to start talking about dying.
Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
Every doctor makes mistakes, and every doctor knows this. Yet the mantra of traditional medical culture is that doctors must be perfect. I think this culture is changing, but perhaps not fast enough.
Books in the FASTLANE
5 books recommended for emergency and critical docs by the LITFL R&R crew with the theme 'Reading for kicks and giggles, sometimes amidst despair and darkness'.
High Pressure-Injection Injury
A review on the emergency department assessment and management of high-pressure injection injuries.
ED Registrar’s Guide to Clinical Teaching
A guide for emergency medicine registrars and residents on how to be an effective clinical teacher.
A Motorcyclist’s Irreparable Injury
aka Trauma Tribulation 008 A 26 year-old male was BIBA after falling off his stationary motorbike at a set of traffic lights. C-spine precautions were removed following palpation of his neck and assessment of his sphincter tone. Initially, his only…