# Life in the Fast Lane • LITFL: Emergency medicine education and critical care education blog

> Life in the Fast Lane • LITFL • Emergency medicine education and critical care education blog

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## Pages
- [What's In A Name?](https://litfl.com/eponymictionary/whats-in-a-name/): Semantic, etymological analysis on the names of things we commonly use\. Why are they so different around the world? Can we trace it back to a defined origin? 
- [Eponymythology](https://litfl.com/eponymythology/): The myths behind the history \- eponymythology\. The person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named\.
- [Emergency Procedures](https://litfl.com/procedures/): Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: simple, quick and effective, just in time procedures outlined with consent, preparation and evidence outlined
- [Publications and Position Statements](https://litfl.com/ucem/publications-and-position-statements/)
- [October 25 – On This Day in Medical History](https://litfl.com/otd/10-25/): What happened on October 25? Explore notable medical events, breakthroughs, births and deaths from across history in LITFL’s On This Day \(OTD\)

## Posts
- [Paracetamol or Acetaminophen?](https://litfl.com/paracetamol-or-acetaminophen/): Paracetamol or acetaminophen? Discover how one familiar analgesic was made, overlooked, rediscovered and given two different names worldwide\.
- [Alpha\-Gal Syndrome](https://litfl.com/alpha-gal-syndrome/): Alpha\-gal syndrome explained: tick bites, delayed red meat allergy, cetuximab anaphylaxis, and the clues that linked them\.
- [Adrenaline or epinephrine?](https://litfl.com/epinephrine-or-adrenaline/): Adrenaline or epinephrine? Based on the 'usage argument'; 'historical precedent' and 'etymological derivation'\.\.\.
- [History of fluorescein](https://litfl.com/history-of-fluorescein/): Fluorescein: history, chemistry and modern eye uses—corneal staining, Seidel leak test, Jones drainage test and retinal angiography\.
- [Theodore Obrig](https://litfl.com/theodore-obrig/): Theodore Ernst Obrig \(1894–1967\) pioneered cobalt\-blue and fluorescein viewing \(1938\), transforming contact lens fitting and corneal surface assessment\.

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- [Clinical Cases](https://litfl.com/category/litfl/clinical-cases/)

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