Physician Social and Professional Networks
Physicians are a strange bunch at the best of times. Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are Web-based services for health care
The times they are a changing
With the era of Generation Y doctors; open source publishing; micro-blogging; stumbling and tweeting now upon us it is important to review the potential implications of the internet age on emergency medicine.
CXR Case 007
45 year old male presents confused and hypoxaemic Describe and interpret this CXR
Information overload
How can emergency and critical care physicians deal with information overload? Here is one answer...
From Hippocrates To Osler to FOAM
Joe Lex's talk on medical education, 'From Hippocrates To Osler to FOAM', from SMACC 2013.
Why FOAM? Facts, Fallacies and Foibles
A video lecture by Chris Nickson that asks the question 'Why FOAM?', and explores the facts, fallacies and foibles of Free Open Access Med(ical ed)ucation' (FOAM). Includes audio only version and slides.
Creating the FOAMed network
I have been trying (with limited success) for the last 5 years to define the use of social media in emergency medicine and critical care.
Emergency Medicine Web Resources
The time-poor ED physician, faced with an ever increasing patient load, is finding it difficult to keep up to date with the expansive proliferation of clinical knowledge
CXR Case 006
74 yo male ex-smoker presents with worsening breathlessness Describe and interpret this CXR
CXR Case 005
An 18 yo male presents with fevers, productive cough with fresh haemoptysis, and wheeze. He has a background history of frequent chest infections as a child and teenager. Describe and interpret this CXR
CXR Case 004
A 60 yo man is intubated in ED having presented by ambulance profoundly hypoxaemic in respiratory distress Describe and interpret this CXR
R&R In The FASTLANE 190
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