LITFL Review 182

Welcome to the 182nd 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 Week Essentials of Emergency Medicine is offering a US resident scholarship in partnership with ALiEM and EMCrit for the October Essentials course in Las Vegas. Check it out and apply now! [AS] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency MedicineGreat pearl from the University of Maryland on the significance of discordant U waves in relation to cardiac ischemia. [AS]Rich Carden reminds us of an often-neglected area of EM with this great blog on St Emlyns; Are we doing all we can for Mental Health? [SL]Are hyperacute T-waves diagnostic of infarction in the setting of a paced rhythm? Find out at Dr Smith’s ECG Blog. [MG]The May edition of the Annals of Emergency Medicine audio summary is now available! [MG]The Best of #FOAMcc Critical CareThe Bottom Line review the STOPAH trial comparing prednisolone or pentoxifylline for alcoholic hepatitis. [SO]Here’s an interesting post by Josh Farkas on apnoeic ventilation using pressure limited ventilation. [SO]The Best of #FOAMtox ToxicologyThe Maryland Critical Care Project has a great talk on toxic haemoglobinopathies, specifically carbon monoxide and methaemoglobinaemia. ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs