Managing the Busy ED
Working in the ED environment is unlike most other areas of medicine. Stress levels can be high, maintaining patient flow in the face of access block and exit block can seem futile, and a chaotic environment
Letter From America #3
The bang was provided by the force of nature otherwise known as William "Billy" Mallon, M.D. perhaps the most natural candidate for F.UCEM status alive today. His keynote consisted of a few trademark rants...
Metabolic Mayhem
Two quick ECG problems for you this week. See if you can spot the common thread. This potassium with hyperkalemia, hypokalaemia
LITFL takes a leap of faith
An honorary F.UCEM PhD will be awarded to the most awesome or most obscure/outrageous place to display the LITFL or FOAM logo The inaugural winner of the PhD (Publicly Happy to Display) is Sir Peter Wyllie of Alice Springs Pete…
Crazy Bug Hunter 004
The Centenary of Australian tropical medicine is as good a time as any to recognize the contribution Anton Breinl made as one of the pioneer crazy bug hunters in our region.
Lessons from Osler 001
The Master Word for success in medicine, according to William Osler, is Work. But in the Generation Y era of lifestyle above all else, isn't work a dirty word?
Buckley on Paracetamol: More Than Meets The Eye
Clinical Toxicologist Nicholas Buckley is one of the biggest brains in the business. In his talk at SMACC he showed us how much there is to know about something so seemingly simple in ‘Paracetamol: More than meets the Eye’. This is a…
Long path reverberation artefact
There are many ultrasound artefacts. Here we discuss reverberation artefacts - Long path reverberation artefacts (also called A-lines in the lung)
Fear and Loathing in ER and ICU
The Times Online have just published a brilliantly written and seriously hardcore article by the late Steven Wells, a UK rock journalist who recently died from lymphoma.
Echo of the widow Dimanche
The registrar stood open-mouthed next to the professor. Before them was a twisted unicorn's horn, an echo of that owned by the widow Dimanche, who sold water-cress in the streets of Paris. The patient was unmoved.
ECG Case 075
Previously well 70 year old man presents to peripheral hospital with central chest pain and diaphoresis. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG
ICE 003: Leg skin rash
A 37 year old woman presents to the ED with a week long history of a tender rash on the lower limbs and feeling non-specifically unwell. There is no history of trauma.