LITFL Review#210

Welcome to the 210th 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 Excellent interview by Rob Orman of Weingart discussing the management of extravasation of peripheral vasopressors from Essentials of EM. [AS]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine We all know the dangers of hypoxia but how clued up are you on the issues surrounding hyperoxia? PHEMCAST had a great run through the topic. [SL] Free lecture this week from Billy Mallon on alcohol’s effect on the brain, courtesy of Essentials of EM. [AS] The Skeptics Guide welcomes guest skeptic Ryan Radecki to review the ins and outs of the recent NEJM paper on Idarucizumab for dabigitran reversal. [AS] Do prehospital ECGs make a difference? Find out about the latest research on the PEC Podcast. [MG] What’s new with the treatment of SVT? Broome Docs details the best care for this common presentation in 2015. [MG] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Justin Morgenstern walks us through the step by step management of the unstable atrial fibrillation patient. Don’t be scared to cardiovert these patients [SR] Josh Farkas does some mythbusting when it comes to coagulopathy management in the bleeding cirrhotic ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs