LITFL Review 199

Welcome to the 199th 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 PHEMCAST, Prehospital Emergency Medicine Podcast, is here! Providing the latest and greatest FOAMed from PHEM in the UK. Episode one kicks off with a superb line up on laryngeal mask airway (LMA), including PALM, LMA in cardiac arrest and much more. Have a listen and check out the website, and online podcast for those not looking to download the free podcast from iTunes. Great work from Nutbeam and Bosanko! [SL] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine More on natiuretic peptides, likelihood ratios and Bayseian thinking from Rory Spiegel. [AS] Think you understand why patients with PE are hypoxic? A really interesting blog from Andy Neill looks at the evidence out there to explain it. [SL] Toxic Alcohol poisoning is a difficult diagnosis, but should be a bit easier after reading this great post from emDocs. [MG] BoringEM covers the EKG findings associated with syncopeyou can’t miss. [MG] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care REBEL EM reviews the evidence (actually lack thereof) for time to antibiotics in sepsis. [AS] Are catheter directed lytics the “magic bullet” for submassive PE treatment? RE...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs