Welcome to the 190th 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
55 yo lady presents with worsening chronic cough and wheeze Describe and interpret this CXR and CT
44 yo man has routine CXR after possible faint Describe and interpret this CXR
You can't get through emergency medicine training these days without the TLA 'NAI' ringing in your ears every time a sick child pops up on the triage screen. Can you remember all the things to look for if you suspect non-accidental injury?
A 22 yo male presents with worsening chronic cough and breathlessness. He has been underweight since childhood.
It’s funny, a common discussion point comes up every so often when I talk to my non-medical friends about careers. The access to strong medications and drugs seems to be an endless fascination for some people; Can you write me…
How do you guys do it. I could never do your job! How many times have those of us in the healthcare profession heard those questions? Dare I say that, at least once in our careers, most of us will have…
Should I Stay or Should I Go?- an Irish Doctor’s conundrum
We all just need a break every so often with another emergency musical interlude….take it away – “The Laryngospasms”
Been waiting all week for this EMI to arrive... and finally the big ZDogg has delivered with another blockbuster parody - It's Call Day
The inspiration for today’s question, comes from (1) LITFL friend, and Twitter’s @ketaminh, who mused on an Aristotelian quote: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle and (2) the inimitable and…