LITFL Review 212

Welcome to the 212th 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 talk from SMACC Chicago on Performance Psychology for Resuscitationists from Jason Brooks. [AS]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Peripheral vertigo and no meclizine? Ryan Radecki tells us not to worry because promethazine is probably better at controlling symptoms. [SR] Do you know the significance of a new T wave inversion in lead aVL? Learn from the EKG master himself, Amal Mattu from his talk at Essentials of EM. [AS] For a patient with a potential C-spine injury, you’d be mad not to use a collar—or would you? Simon Laing and Erika Panaro talk us through the pros and cons of spinal immobilisation with a recap of some useful EBM and decision rules for imaging. [CC] Justin Morgenstern discusses how to manage the palliative ED patient with dyspnea. [SR] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Josh Farkas delves into the neurocritical care of the comatose patient with meningitis. [AS] Steve Smith uses the Modified Sgarbossa Criteria in  a case of chest pain and new LBBB. [SR] Rory Spiegel states maybe we shouldn’t be focusing on continuous vs interrupted CPR, b...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs