Why do we get to treat so few strokes?
Rick Abbot is back at last, with the tale of his own potential neurological catastrophe - with musings on delayed ED presentations and the quality of neurological physical examination.
Category Medical Specialty
Retrievals: Too… to stay here!
Retrievals: we don't use the term in the US - moving a patient from one hospital to another, even in the rare instance that a Doctor is in attendance, is a transfer.
Emergency Imaging in Tassie
Rick Abbott gives us his take on the good, the bad and the ugly of the different emergency radiology services he's encountered in Tasmania and the United States.
Clear!!!
LITFL's 'American ER Doc Gone Walkabout' Rick Abbott tells us about his personal adventures with 'hands on' defibrillation and cardioversion... Are you ready for CPR with no interruptions?
Where we work
Do you work in an emergency department, or a "shop"?
R&R In The FASTLANE 189
Welcome to the 189th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians
R&R In The FASTLANE 180
Welcome to the 180th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media
All Bleeding Stops
I think I can feel an epistaxis post in the works. Before there was Bodies there was Jed Mercurio‘s cult classic Cardiac Arrest. Our mate at Movin’ Meat would agree, all bleeding stops… Eventually. Is it just coincidence that the…
Where should I stick this?
Searching my image library for adjunctive multimedia has brought back some great memories. Indeed wearing my retrospectacles affords wistful reminiscences of the persistent, whining and obtuse questions I asked (without research) of my mentors during training.
a perplexing paradox…
The case. a 70 year old female is bought to your ED at 10pm via ambulance with a dense right-sided hemiparesis following a witnessed collapse at home only 30 minutes earlier.
PE: Pain, Puzzles and PERC
Insights from the podcast PE/ PERC wars that are raging on the web as a result of the clash of two New York titans on EMCrit...
Top 10 pearls for managing anaphylaxis
Top 10 pearls and pitfalls on the management of anaphylaxis.