LITFL Review 284

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 284th 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 The EM Nerd eloquently reminds us that simplifying quality care to a simple time metric doesn’t work in STEMI and it doesn’t work in sepsis. Does time to antibiotics matter? Yes. Does it represent quality of care? Not necessarily. [AS] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine ESR + CRP may not be as good as you think for aiding in the diagnosis of septic arthritis. Check out the numbers from CanadiEM. [AS] EM Updates discusses the different ways to confirm an ETT. [AS] Simon and Rob discuss TXA in PPH, OHCA and thrombolysis in PE this month in the Resus Room Podcast. [AS] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care There are lots of airway checklists around but this one from the Alfred ICU is a nice addition to the group. [AS] Josh Farkas discusses the management of post-extubation stridor in an eloquent Pulmcrit post. [SO] The Bottom Line review the INSTINCT trial comparing Intravenous immunoglobulin to placebo in necrotising soft tissue infections. G...
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