LITFL Review 234

Welcome to the 234th 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 Simon Carley shatters our illusions of superiority, making us question whether we are really in the 93% that self-rate as “above average.” Are you as good as you think? [JS] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Some interesting tidbits on pneumothoraces from Andy Neill that may be a surprise to us all. [SL] First 10 in EM site posts its articles of the month for May. [AS] History of Australasian Emergency Medicine is a fascinating interview conducted by Amit Maini with Edward Brentnall, one of the Australian founders of emergency medicine. He recounts the origins and early development of the specialty in Australasia. [CN] Should we avoid venepuncture on the same side as breast surgery and lymph node removal? This and more picks from the literature in Andy Neill & chums in their new inEM for June. [SL] This week, Core EM reviews the true knee and simple patellar dislocations. [AS] Diltiazem IV to PO is explained via Jorge Varela, PharmD [SR] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care The Bottom Line on an evaluation trial of 6 different videolaryngoscopes in simulated difficult airway...
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