Quick Case #05
the case. a 42 year old male presents via ambulance with chest pain following an motor vehicle accident.
Category LITFL
catching the culprit…
the case. a 32 year old male presents to ED with a 4 hour history of retrosternal chest pain. He has had the pain since midnight and it “just isn’t going away”. This is his ECG…
Busting the clotbusters (from SMACC 2013)
As revenge for an incident best left unmentioned, Chris Nickson of litfl.com handed me the poisoned chalice of speaking on tPA for stroke at SMACC 2013. This is the result. (Un)fortunately there is no actual video footage as I wasn’t…
hot & spotty…
the case. A mother brings her 18 month old child to your emergency department with a 24 hour history of fevers. She is now worried that her daughter has developed these little red spots.
Laceration Repair
Dr Brian Lin has created a great #FOAMed video education site for 'closing the gap' at LacerationRepair.com
SMACC, Down But Not Out
Simply put, the three days of the SMACC 2013 conference were greatest three days of my professional life. I can’t believe it happened, and I can hardly believe it is over. If, five years ago, you had told me that…
PK SMACC-talk Winner
Congratulations to David Anderson, the winner of the PK SMACC-talk competition with his 400 second long talk on the history of prehospital and retrieval medicine.
The Essence of Critical Care
Scott Weingart of EMCrit opens SMACC by telling us about 'The Essence of Critical Care'.
Does Ibuprofen protect against Acute Mountain Sickness?
The issue of prevention of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) has been debated extensively on the high altitude walking tracks around the world and also in the literature
Yet Another Six SMACCers!
PK SMACC-talks are turning into the FOAM equivalent of the Ginsu steak knife — there’s always more! First up, Colin Parker (@empemorg) of the original paediatric emergency medicine podcast empem.org — and one of my buddies and teachers from back…
SMACC after SMACC after SMACC
Although SMACC is less than a month away now, we're loving the PKs so much that we're leaving the door open for more submissions until the latest possible moment
SMACC FOAM Q/A
Joe Lex, Scott Weingart, Simon Carley, Minh Le Cong, Oli Flower, Mike Cadogan and Chris Nickson talk with the SMACC audience about FOAM... for nearly 2 hours!!!