LITFL Review 238

Welcome to the 238th 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 Radiopaedia has the entire SMACC Radiology playlist available to view. All cases, discussion notes—everything! Awesome #FOAMed. [SO]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Sydney HEMS have just released a wealth of superb Pre Hospital podcasts on topics including scene time, penetrating trauma, primary survey and airway and oxygenation. [SL] The Core EM Podcast features a discussion of anaphylaxis focusing on the importance of epinephrine (adrenaline). [ML] Can you LP an anticoagulated patient? The available evidence doesn’t give us a clear answer but Matt DeLaney tries to make sense of it all on ALiEM. [AS] Commonly missed findings on CT abdo & pelvis, from EMDocs. [SL] Resus.me reviews the rarely used but potentially life saving hilar twist. [AS] Rory Spiegel discusses total body CT scanning vs selected, clinically driven scans in a thoughtful EM Nerd post. [SO] Interesting Bottom Line on Erythromycin pre-med for RSI and emergency anaesthesia. Beware: not patient-oriented outcomes! [JS] The Best of #FOAMcd Critical Care REBEL has an review of a systematic review on passive l...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs