LITFL Review 188

Welcome to the 188th 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 Unbelievable talk from John Hinds at SMACC US – Crack the Chest. Get Crucified. If you’re unclear why it is that the FOAM world was so saddened at John’s loss, this will quickly jog your memory. [AS] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine The SGEM HOP (Hot Off the Press) features Jeff Kline and Chris Carpenter discussing outpatient management of pulmonary embolism with rivaroxaban. [AS] How do we manage grief in the ED? Liz Crowe and Iain Beardsell discuss how grief affects us as providers and people. [AS] Should we pursue medical management of acute appendicitis and have the studies been framing the question and the data correctly? Rory Spiegel discusses on EM Nerd this week. [AS] What’s the best evidence for administering oxygen to COPD patients? Emergency medicine blog outlines the goldilocks principle. [MG] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Double Punch Defibrillation for refractory VF? A thought provoking discussion on ScanCrit. [CC] EMCrit does a deep dive on the use of High-Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) in hypoxic respiratory failure. [AS] The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology The Po...
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