LITFL Review 177

Welcome to the 177th LITFL Review. Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the WeekMichelle Johnston manages to capture, in her superbly eloquent style, the heartbreak of the Wrong type of Swiss Cheese. Errors must be prevented, yes. But not at the cost of our humanity. [SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency MedicineThe April issue of The Annals of Emergency Medicine Podcast is released, and it features a number of great articles on everyone’s favourite subject: airway. [MG]The SETT UP approach to clinical skills training, from LITFL’s own Mike Cadogan. Far better than “see one, do one, teach one.” [AS]EM Cases features Chris Hicks discussing his personal practice-changing Best Case Ever: Taking Action in EM. [AS]Should we be mixing lidocaine and bupivacaine to get both rapid onset and long duration in digital nerve blocks? Great review by REBEL EM. [AS]Are ketamine and propofol really better together? Find out in this week’s Skeptic’s Guide to Emergency Medicine. [MG]Minh Le Cong and a fantastic crew of docs have got together to write some great surviving sedation guidelines to help us manage acutely disturbed patients. [SO]Zafrina Poonja from ALIEM writes the first ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs