LITFL Review 220

Welcome to the 220th 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 The world is buzzing about Zika Virus. Found out what you need to know this week from emDocs. [MG] Interesting perspective on the Zika virus in this week’s NEJM, describing the “pandemic expansion of multiple, heretofore relatively unimportant arboviruses previously restricted to remote ecologic niches.” [ML]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Interesting trick of the trade from ALiEM on making a TXA paste from tablets for topical application. [AS] The ALiEM Chief Resident Incubator team has put together a MUST READ list of EM Journal Articles. [SR] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Jamie Santistevan reviews Hyperacute T-Waves, deWinter’s T-Waves, and Hyperkalemic T-Waves. [SR] Richard Carden goes over the highlights from the NICE 2016 Major Trauma Guidelines. [SR] Peter Brindley explores the ethics, efficacy and semantics of resuscitation: What’s the Point? [JS] Unavoidable pressure ulcers in the critically ill patient requiring vasopressors? [JS] Rob Orman and Ryan Radecki discuss which chest pain patients can go home, Caveats to the HEART Score, and Delta Troponin Test...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs