Shout Outs

Updated 3/2017 -- photos and all links (except to my own posts) removed as many no longer active and it was easier than checking each one.

Kim, Emergiblog, is this week's host of Grand Rounds. Nice edition! You can read it here (photo credit).

Welcome to the Emergiblog Speedway, where the Grand Rounds 500 is about to get underway! No chance of a rain delay - our bloggers are ready to roll!

Thirty-nine bloggers have shown up for the event. All entries have qualified; no posts were sent back to the garage.

And ladies, don’t worry, you’re welcome on the track, I just wanted to use the classic starting phrase!

Life is so fragile.  Please, lend your support to Dr. Smak as her son’s brain cancer has returned.  You can go here or here to donate money towards pediatric brain cancer research.

JeffreyLeow, Monash Med Student, will be taking part in the adventure race, Anaconda Lorne,  in Dec 2008 after his exams. The organizers have helped set up a fund-raising website through which anyone can donate. Please consider donating through this link.   The donated money will go to the Burnet Institute.

any additional fundraising that can be achieved helps the Burnet Institute fight some of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases through medical research and public health education, both here in Australia and overseas. To find out more about the Burnet Institute and their work, click here.

Paul Auerbach, MD, Medicine for the Outdoors, has a nice post on the field management for a penetrating ("sucking") chest wound. 

The usual teaching for improvisational management of chest wounds is that all open wounds (particularly those in which air is bubbling) should be rapidly covered, to avoid “sucking” chest wounds that could allow more air to enter the pleural space and thus continue to worsen a collapsed lung. For a dressing, a Vaseline-impregnated gauze, heavy cloth, or adhesive tape can be used. The dressing should be sealed to the chest on at least three sides…….

Tim Sturgill MD JD, Symtym, will be the guest on the Dr Anonymous' Blog Talk Radio show this week. He describes himself this way

a board certified emergency physician, at mid–career, with interests in:

• Emergency Medicine
• Emergency Medical Services
• Health 2.0
• Health Informatics
• Health Law
• Health Technologies
• Medicine 2.0
• Web 2.0, semantic web

Late Day Addendum:

Alvaro Fernandez, The Brain Fitness Authority, hosts the first edition the first edition of MetaCarnival:  a Carnival of Carnivals.  Check it out here.

Welcome to the first edition of MetaCarnival: a Carnival of Carnivals (announced here), the new, monthly, and interdisciplinary gathering of blogs and blog carnivals.

Let's picture all participants in the shadow of an expansive sycamore tree, conducting a lively Q&A lunch discussion.