LITFL Review 251

Welcome to the 251st 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 Ketamine for acute behavioural disturbance, the narrative summary from Andy Neill’s talk from EuSEM16, with a particular highlight of the Neill sedation assessment tool! [SL] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Should you be using the modified Sgarbossa criteria to diagnose acute coronary occlusions in the setting of a left bundle branch block? Core EM reviews the validation study of this approach. [AS] Save more lives, be amazing at the basics.  This is a great blog from RCEM on Parkinson’s patients in the ED. [CC] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Incredible post by Josh Farkas delving into the nuanced management of DKA including the lack of utility bicarbonate therapy in the initial management. [AS] The ETM podcast features a counterpoint opinion on emergency surgical airways (Part 2) with Scott Weingart. See too Part 1 cast with Bruce Paix. A great listen. [AS] qSOFA, we hardly knew ye. Josh Farkas reviews the attempted validation study of qSOFA noting that sensitivity was too low to recommend wide adoption. [AS] The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s annual conferenc...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs