LITFL Review 185

Welcome to the 185th 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 Incredible reenactment videos of the Elaine Bromiley case, “a routine operation that went horribly awry.” From EMCrit, where Nicholas Chrimes’s videos show how things go wrong and how they can go right. [AS]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Ryan Radecki reviews the recent publication in JAMA Internal Medicine questioning the utility of admission for chest pain patients with negative serial troponins. [AS] ALiEM discusses the the dangers of rib fractures and how we can identify patients at high-risk for bad outcomes. [AS] Nice discussion from emDocs.net on the rare, but potentially fatal Arrhthmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia. [AS] Syncope had a very wide differential. What are the vascular causes? Review them at emDocs.net [MG] If you give blood products, you need to hear Emergency Medicine Cases discuss when IV iron is a better option in many patients. [MG] Just in time for the new class of US interns, St. Emlyn’s Induction Series is back discussing Back Pain in the ED. [AS] Another great induction to EM/Critical Care too. HEFTemcast and this podcast on ED led R...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs