LITFL Review 224

Welcome to the 224th 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 International Symposium on Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) was held this week, with a number of landmark trials presented- as well as some excellent debates. Adrian Wong and Jamie Strachan of Oxford ICM have an excellent series of posts covering all 4 days of the conference, and Rob “the Machine” MacSweeney has a special newsletter covering the key landmark trials presented. New data on high flow nasal cannulation, dexmedetomidine for delirium, and noninvasive ventilation post-abdominal surgery were presented. Game changing stuff! [SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine REBEL EM welcomes Amal Mattu to discuss lead aVR and how we should be using this in the diagnosis of acute MI + cath lab activation. [AS] Simon Carley and Ken Milne talk skin glue to secure peripheral IVs this week on the SGEM. [AS] Excellent review of pacemakers from CandiEM with a focus on pacemaker mediated tachycardia. [AS] Talking all things pneumothorax,Jeremy and Lauren from FOAMcast bring us a great episode on the core content and literature surrounding the topic. [SL] The Best of #FOAMcc Critica...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs