LITFL Review 221

Welcome to the 221st 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 Sepsis-3 is released, and a fantastic 7 minute vodcast from JAMA on their new consensus definitions for sepsis and septic shock. [SL] Here’s 40 minutes of sepsis goodness–iTunes interviews with the authors. [SO] This is discussed by many in the FOAM community: *Jeremy Faust and Lauren Westafer reveal the new sepsis definitions. SIRS is OUT and qSOFA score are IN. [SR] *Great links to pro/con discussion too by Natalie May and Richard Carden at St Elmyn’s.[SR] *Justin Morgenstern feels that the new sepsis definitions are not ready for primetime. [SR] *Justin Mandeville also summarises Sepsis 3.0 and uses the “rule of 2s” in his post from ICMWK. [SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Brent Thoma does an excellent job discussing palliative care in the ED and a step-by-step way to go about it. [SR] Simon Carley talks about medical error and how it can shape the way we perceive ourselves and others as clinicians, and how we could and should support ourselves and each other. [CC] Low risk chest pain continues to plague the Emergency Physician. Watch this great vodcast from Essen...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs