LITFL Review 239

Welcome to the 239th 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 Josh Farkas weaves an elegant web around the NINDS Trial, not debating the therapy, but explaining Fragility Index and introducing the Instability Index. This is truly critical appraisal 2.0. [JS, AS, SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Rory Spiegel dissects the REACT-2 Trial looking at “Pan Scan” vs “Selective Scan” in trauma patients [SR] First 10 in EM highlights their papers of the month for June. A nice smattering of important EM articles with brief analysis. [AS] Excellent collection of induction (aka orientation) resources for new EM trainees via St. Emlyn’s. [AS] Another great article review from FOAMShED, this time casting a critical eye over the DECAF score for COPD exacerbations. [SL] Core EM features a podcast and critical appraisal of the ENCHANTED trial this week. [AS] The Best of #FOAMcd Critical Care Chris Hicks, Mark Forrest, Scott Weingart and Chris Nickson join Anton Helman on EM Cases live from SMACCDub to discuss some hot topics in critical care. [AS] Jon-Emile Kenny gives an excellent summary on the revised Starling Principle and the glycocalyx. [SO] Jon-Em...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs