LITFL Review 255

Welcome to the 255th 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 chunk of FOAM. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week A literal ripper of a review on thoracic aortic dissection, covering everything from presentation, symptoms and signs to help us pick up this too frequently missed presentation. [SL] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine The Resus Room reviews the latest update on what we know on Stroke Thrombolysis from this month’s EMA.  There’s Odds Ratios and cans of worms strewn left right and centre…..[CC] REBEL EM urges us to sit down and have a think about the PESIT trial before PE screening everyone who presents with a first episode of syncope. [ML] Training in EM is not without its challenges. Janos Baombe takes on the UK perspective in this thoughtful post from St Emlyns. [SO] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Weingart sits down with Peter Brindley to discuss rudeness and how it affects the way we provide care. [AS] Which is better for non-invasive ventilation: helmets or Facemask? Tom Pratt reviews a recent JAMA paper on the topic for the Bottom Line. [SO] Thomas Woodcock takes on many preconceptions about albumin in intensive care in this very challenging post. He welcomes comments. [SO] Jos...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs