LITFL Review 270

Welcome to the 270th 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 Ashley Liebig delivers a powerful, poignant and thought provoking talk on the golden fleece, the golden hour and the golden rule. [AS] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Moises Gallegos introduces a new mnemonic for the management options of EPISTAXIS. [SR] Andy Neill reminds us of the importance of taking a temperature and how those dang tympanic thermometers work (or maybe they dont). [SR] Rory Spiegel explains why evidence on opioid prescription by emergency physicians is only as good as the methodological constructs it is derived from in his post The case of the aimless company. [SR] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Brilliant and inspiring talk from SMACCDub on the challenges of delivering high quality critical care in resource poor areas from Nikki Blackwell. [AS] Josh Farkas makes an impassioned plea for us to differentiate symptomatic bradycardia based on how sick the patient is and tailor management to the level of sick. Atropine isn’t the answer in the crashing bradycardic patient. [AS] Does light therapy help to reduce the incidence of ICU delirium? The Bottom line review an in...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs