LITFL Review 264

Welcome to the 264th 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 Another great set of talks from SMACCDub released this week: John Greenwood discussing assault on the RV and Haney Mallemat on the PEA Paradox. [AS]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Rob Orman talks to a number of EPs about the practice changers in Emergency Medicine from 2016. [AS] Edd Carlton discusses the latest update to the NICE Chest pain guidance, a new dictat or the case of the missed opportunity? [CC] Bryan Hayes and the ALiEM team review the standout EM-Pharmacotherapy papers for 2016. [AS] Excellent review of labs to order and how to interpret those labs after fluid drainage in patients with ascites and pleural effusions from the Taming the SRU site. [AS] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Should we be switching from Vanco-Zosyn to Vanco-Cefepime in sepsis to avoid increased AKI rates? Not so fast. As in EM in Focus points out, the answer isn’t so straightforward. [AS] Bubbles in a chest drain aren’t always a good thing, as Vinay Bharatula and INTENSIVE point out [SO] The Maryland CC Project deliver excellent teaching on haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs