LITFL Review 271

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 271st 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 Get your conspiracy theory on with The Poison Review team and their round up on what we know about VX gas…..[CC] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine False negatives are real when it comes to non-contrast head CTs and SAH but misinterpretation is more of an issue than the imaging modality. [AS] Our own Anand Swaminathan argues for the use of systemic thrombolytics in submassive pulmonary embolism. [SR] Anna Pickens does a great 5 minute review on the approach to headaches on EM in 5. [SR] A painless and engaging piece from Janos of the St Emlyns crew on a recently published RCT on the use of benzos in acute low back pain. [CC] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Ryan Radecki reviews another publication on contrast induced nephropathy: The AMACING Trial. [SR] The Bottom line review a trial looking at inhaled heparin as a tool to prevent VAP. [SO] EM In Focus discusses the disutility of ordering pre-procedure coagulation tests in cirrhotic patients...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs