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Browsing Archive: November, 2015

Pearls from FOAMed

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, November 18, 2015, In : Clinical topics 
Many of you reading this post will be familiar with the term FOAMed, which is an acronym for Free Open Access Meducation. (If it is new to you, find out more about this concept on these blog posts and articles - LITFL - FOAM / The Short Coat - What is FOAM?EMA - Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) for the emergency physician). There are subsets of FOAMed, such as FOAMcc (critical care), FOAMped (paeds), FOAMlit (literature review and research) and FOAM4GP (general practice) which ca...

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ILCOR 2015 - Does it matter for motorsports?

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Monday, November 9, 2015, In : Clinical topics 


Every five years the International Liason Committee On Resuscitation reviews the currently available evidence and updates its recommendations regarding resuscitation. The review board is large and made up of resuscitation experts from all over the world and from several specialty areas, including emergency medicine, prehospital medicine and critical care. The recommendations that they write carry a lot of weight and are in turn taken by the lead resuscitation bodies in the various countries a...

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