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: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
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