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Joe Lex, Osler, and Hippocrates on free open access medical education as a tenet of medical practice.

A meander through the grounding ideas and aspirations of social media and critical care with Joe Lex, Scott Weingart, Mike Cadogan, Simon Carley, Chris Nickson, Nadie Levick, and Oliver Flower.

Kane Guthrie packs all the Free Open Access Meducation highlights from the past year as he can into 30 minutes.

Alex Tzannes talks reviews areas of advancement and contention in pre-hospital and retrieval medicine for the past year.

Paolini considers key talking points in Emergency Medicine from the past year, including high sensitivity trop T, non invasive real time vital sign measurement, and new forms of anti coagulants.

Seppelt ranges over a year of fraudulent behaviour, reviews, and news in intensive care.

Paul Young's talk suggests how honey bees, senegalese grasshoppers, and desert iguanas might prompt a large RCT investigating paracetamol use in the context of fever.   

Goudie expounds upon the virtues of being approximately right rather than precisely wrong when performing cardiac ultrasound. 

Marek Nalos gives us the finer details of using ultrasound as a diagnostic tool for respiratory illness.

Bowra examines the possibility of 'turning off the machine' and behaving like a doctor versus a detailed examination of the IVC. 

Brian Burns on managing trauma patients in extremis and extreme conditions.

Michael Parr's 'how-to' for maximising hospital care: systematic, protocol driven, and technology intense.

Anthony Holley brings a military perspective to advances made in trauma management on and off the battlefield.

Cath Hurn chews through some data and gives us some of the finer points of fluid resuscitation.

Michelle Johnston gets past the numbers and puts gestalt back into managing a shocked patient.

The erudite John Myburgh condenses fluid resuscitation data down to a palatable brew. 

Anthony Delaney examines the evidence for usefulness of goal directed therapy in the septic patient.

The lowdown on getting your priorities straight and your doses optimised when tubing a shocked patient.

Matt O'Meara reads the fine print on fluid management in paeds and straight talks on best practice.

Step into the shoes of Mary McCaskill as she walks us through some not to be missed neonatal presentations.