Laceration Repair
Dr Brian Lin has created a great #FOAMed video education site for 'closing the gap' at LacerationRepair.com
Category LITFL
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!!!
Emergency marketing in just 4 hours
Selling patients is sad reality of life as an emergency doctor, will things be worse when the four hour rule is adopted Australia wide?
Chocolate saves lives
A recent study in the European Heart Journal gives us a new reason to enjoy some of life's little pleasures. German researchers followed almost 20,000 participants (as part of a larger cancer epidemiology study) over 10 years and had them document their chocolate intake.
The Baloney Detection Kit
Not sure what to believe? Start using your Baloney Detection Kit. The idea of a ‘Baloney Detection Kit‘ originates with the late Carl Sagan, as detailed in his classic book ‘The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the…
Quick Case #04
the case. An 85 year old female is bought to ED with right hip pain. She was found outside after unfortunately spending the night on the ground. This is her ECG.