LITFL Review 273

LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Welcome to the 273rd 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 Steve Mathieu from Portsmouth ICU shares his hot topics for the UK FFICM slides, from a great course preparing UK trainees for their Intensive Care Exams. [SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Layla Abubshait and Hyunjoo Lee created a cheat sheet guide to laceration repairs, suture type, and removal time. [SR] Richard Wrobleski and Zachary Repanshak review severe transfusion reactions and their management. [SR] CORE EM reviews two important papers on Toradol dosing and sedation with ketofol. [SR] Bryan Hayes reviews a new publication on how best to use low dose IV ketamine for analgesia in the ED.  [SR] Ken Milne and Ryan Radecki offer two reviews on the Ottawa Heart Failure Scale: for prognosis, and the decision to admit or discharge heart failure patients. [SR, AS] Matt Rogers reviews an interesting paper on high dose NTG vs standard infusion of NTG in acute hypertensive heart failure preventing ICU admissions. [SR] Celia Bra...
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