Life in the Fast Lane

Surgexperiences 318

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT

SurgeXperiences is a fortnightly blog carnival bringing together posts from the best and brightest of the surgical blogosphere.

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Emergency Medicine Bloggers

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Prompted by a series of tweets and buzzes pertaining to the knowledge base of Emergency Medicine bloggers we felt it was time to overhaul our ‘BlogRoll‘ and create a separate table for the Emergency bloggers, their twitter handles and RSS feeds.

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Medgadget 2009 MedBlog Awards

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

The writing team at Life in the Fast Lane are humbled to have won an award for the second year in a row - this year the Best Clinical Weblog of 2009. Hopefully we will soon be recognised as a blog by Google and the clinical educational can be extended to a wider audience.

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Making Sense

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

How do experienced clinicians see beyond the superficial and understand the trouble brewing behind the scenes, seemingly before there is any warning? Where does such an unearthly prescience of what is about to happen come from? How is it that one sees what another doesn’t?

Being an expert clinician is not just a matter of making the right decisions, it is a matter of knowing when there is a decision to be made. This process is called ’sense-making’.

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Sternoclavicular Joint Dislocation: Case Study

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Sternoclavicular dislocation is a relatively uncommon injury that can be easily missed or misdiagnosed. The importance in determining the direction of dislocation is emphasised by the dichotomy of management. Hence, a thorough history and examination, especially looking for evidence of compression of retrosternal structures, is paramount. Specialised sternoclavicular X-ray views should be supplemented by CT/MRI if clinical suspicion is high. Posterior dislocations necessitate prompt orthopedic referral.

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Educational Initiative on TB test at the TB Learning Zone

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:00:00 GMT

I have just registered and completed a fantastic educational initiative on Tuberculosis (TB) - TB Learning Zone - produced by Oxford Immunotec. Registration is free and it takes about 90 minutes to complete the training in the Learning Zone.

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Oncology Quandry #003

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:00:00 GMT

A 26 year-old male, with no previous history of seizures, was BIBA in status epilepticus. He was intubated for seizure management with propofol and clonazepam infusions.

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Swine Flu Saves Lives?

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:00:00 GMT

I read Richard Lehman’s roundup of the major medical journals nearly every week on doc2doc. He provides the perspective of a wise yet whimsical generalist who’s been ‘around a while’. One of the papers he reviewed in his January 4th edition was the recently published overview of the Australian swine flu pandemic:

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Elbow Dislocation

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Elbow dislocations constitute 10% to 25% of all injuries to the elbow. The elbow is one of the most commonly dislocated joints in the body, with an average annual incidence of acute dislocation of 6 per 100,000 persons. Among injuries to the upper extremity, dislocation of the elbow is second only to dislocation of the shoulder.

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Australian GP's and Social Media

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:16:00 GMT

Griffith University is undertaking a nationwide survey in an attempt to explore Australian general practitioners’ World Wide Web, Internet and Social Media / Web 2.0 usage to deliver health care in the early 21st century.

This survey is the first Australia wide study into general practitioners’ usage trends and impact associated with such modern communication applications and health care delivery. The study is being organised by Dr Wayne Usher.

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