The LITFL Review 141

The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. Welcome to the 141st edition, brought to you by: Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and ALiEM Chris Nickson [CN] from LITFL, iTeachEM, RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC Joe Rotella [JAR] from LITFL Mat Goebel [MG] from LITFL Anand Swaminathan [AS] from LITFL and EM Lyceum The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week Do risk factors matter? They do to us but perhaps not to our patients. Simon Carley discusses the importance of risk factors in emergency presentations. My favorite statement – “I am a probablastician not a diagnostician.” [AS] AmboFOAM links us to an extremely challenging ECG quiz. Slog through all 36 difficult ECGs to see how you stack up against EM physicians and cardiologists, and what ECG features push you toward a false positive or negative. [MG] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Wellens’ waves continue to be a critical but under-recognized ECG finding indicative of proximal LAD stenosis. Stephen Smith recounts an unusual ...
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