LITFL Review 275

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 275th 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 What is the value of a lecture? How do we get the most out of attending and giving one? Rob Orman discusses with one of the best, Amal Mattu. [AS, SR] Simon and Rob round up the recent trauma care conference in the UK with updates on some really important topics from EBM, PEM and PHEM-US. [CC] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Check out this excellent review and primer on cardiac biomarkers from Taming the SRU. [AS] Ryan Radecki talks high sensitivity troponins.  They are now FDA approved in the US, so get ready. [SR] In this Trick of the trade, Jeffrey Shih shows us how to do a Sphenopalantine Ganglion Block for migraine headaches. No needles needed.  Just a long q-tip applicator and some lidocaine or bupivicaine. [SR] Rory Spiegel tackles another paper evaluating the use of systemic thrombolytics for submassive PE. [SR] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care Can we prevent a disease that may not even exist? REBEL EM reviews the AMACING trial look...
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