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: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
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