LITFL Review 241

Welcome to the 241st 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 Rob Mac Sweeney’s Critical Care Reviews will showcase upcoming trials of interest in critical care. Its inaugural podcast is on Paul Young and the ICU-ROX trial. [SO]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine The Core EM Podcast reviews the PATCH trial and asks whether patients with ICH on antiplatelet therapy should routinely be given platelets. [AS] This should be part of every surgical and EM doc’s induction; why relying on the WCC in a suspected appendicitis is inappropriate. [SL] Josh Farkas walks us through a step by step approach to figuring out which patients admitted with pneumonia need MRSA coverage. [SR] Scott Weingart answers a post peer review question: Should Nasal Cannula be part of denitrogenation/preoxygentation?  [SR] The Bottom Line looks at a paper on high flow nasal oxygen in the ED, the HOT-ER trial. [SL] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care If you missed it last week: Is there any benefit in intensive blood pressure control for intracranial haemorrhage? Here is the Bottom Line. [JS] The Best of #FOAMed Resuscitation Amiodarone is the best anti-arrhythmic. Or is it...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs