LITFL Review 248

Welcome to the 248th 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 Susan Wilcox drops some serious knowledge on pulmonary hypertension and clapped-out right ventricles on EMCrit Podcast. Brilliant guest with excellent clinical applications. [JS] Anatomy is back, Andy Neill returns with more of the superb Emergency Medicine Ireland vodcasts, this time he’s kicking off with a series on the hand. [SL] The RESCUEicp trial looking at decompressive craniectomy has been published and instantaneously summarised by both The Bottom Line and EmNerd.  A must read for all who look after traumatic brain injured patients. [SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Apparently, whippets aren’t benign. Excellent review of N2O abuse by Rich Carden and St. Emlyn’s [AS] Reuben Strayer talks danger, disruption and delirium and the hero of the hour? Ketamine of course……[CC] Ketofol vs Propofol, Local anaesthetic for shoulder reductions and aggressive blood pressure control in intracerebral haemorrhage. Becky Maxwell and chums have a look at recent papers of EM interest. [SL] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Does Idarucizumab work in stemming dabigitran-related bleeding i...
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