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Life in the Fast Lane

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/

Emergency medicine, health informatics and sports medicine from the fast lane

Added on: Oct 5th, 2008
Country: Australia
Language: English

Author: Sandnsurf
Listed in: Medicine Health
Tags: medicine australia elearning emergency medicine sports medicine lecture notes

Recent Posts

Is Social Media the Rock’n\'Roll of HealthCare?

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 18:02 in health, Web 2.0, Networking, social media, healthcare, twitter, featured, web culture, bookmarking

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Social (digital) Media is expanding at an unerring rate, penetrating each and every darkened interstice with shafts of sharing light and goodwill…a...
Look on the Bright Side

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 18:00 in science, wasp, meme, zombies, spider, ant, parasite, snail, nematode, leucochloridium paradoxum, cephalotes atratus, trematode

Having a toothpick fish (the Candiru) take a detour up your urethra doesn’t really bear thinking about. The idea of maggots crawling around under your skin sickens you. It is true, humans are afflicted by some pretty nasty parasites. At least w...
Learning CPR with your iphone

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 04:23 in education, gadget, iphone, cpr, resuscitation, chest compressions, equipment technology, pocketcpr

I don’t own shares in the makers of this product, nor can I verify its effectiveness. However, just the idea of being able to used your iphone as a CPR coach is mind-boggling. Here is the product demo for PocketCPR for iphone: I wonder what P...
UCEM takes WHORe to a New Level

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 23:14 in featured, whore, medical humor, mja, ucem, acute care physician

I’d like to draw attention to a recently published article in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) “Whole-Of-Hospital Response to admission access block: the need for a clinical revolution”. The Whole Of Hospital Response to Emerg...
Action at a Distance

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 20:27 in reviews, gadget, Magic, wand, equipment technology, it timesaver, action at a distance, hands off medicine

“Action at a distance” is a phrase synonymous with flight-deck control physicians practicing the hands-free model of patient examination and management. Whilst cruising the interweb for evidential examples of such medical practitioners, ...
Microbial Mystery #001

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 06:30 in infectious disease, csf, investigation [tests]

Consider a 21 year-old presenting to the emergency department with fevers and agitation. His lumbar puncture results are shown below: Questions Q1. What is the diagnosis? Show Answer Meningococcal meningitis Q2. What is the ‘normal’...