LITFL Review #208

Welcome to the 208th 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 Tim Leeuwenburg’s talk from SMACC US, Coping with Isolation, speaks to those physicians who practice “all alone” in a rural environment. The take-home message: vulnerability is OK; be kind to each other; and we are never alone with FOAMed. Posted in multiple medias on Intensive Care Network.[SR] Read the medical response to multisite terrorist attacks in Paris, amazing insights from a Viewpoint published online in this week’s Lancet. [J The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Video short from Essentials of EM discussing meds that are just as effective if given IV or PO. [AS] Mark Culver and Emily Richards question the use of prophylactic IV ondansetron in preventing opiate-induced nausea/vomiting on Emergency Medicine PharmD. [SR]’ You’ve seen the oxygen mask elastic trick for removing rings. Now, in this video the team at St Emlyns shows you how to bandage a scalp so it stays on!  Basic EM skills at their best. [CC] Simon Carley reviews a study and designs a strategy to rule out ACS using of a single hsTnI <5ng/L at St. Emlyn’s Blog. [SR] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Car...
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