The LITFL Review 143

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 143rd 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 Ripper this week is smashed out by Amal Mattu as he reminds us why amiodarone is dangerous in the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation with WPW. Avoid drugs (except procedural sedation agents) and proceed to cardioversion instead. [AS] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine What is an appropriate gold standard? Can we use an age-adjusted d-Dimer to risk stratify PE? Does our decreased tolerance for missed PE and low incidence of disease in studies affect the utility of our tests? All of these questions addressed by Rory Spiegel in “The Adventure of the Golden Standard.” [AS] More costs and no benefits. Not a great slogan but the clear truth abou...
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