LITFL Review 303

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 303rd 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 Kenneth Palmer from Karolinska shares his 30-plus years of ECMO experience in a podcast from the Maryland CCProject. [SO]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine We’ve known for some time that Kayexalate is generally ineffective in our patients, and comes with some untoward side effects. But an important piece from PulmCCM reveals that sodium polystyrene sulfonate can bind to and inactivate other enterally-administered medications! [RP] ERCast podcast on Summer Journal Club  reviews recent articles on abscess, c-spine clearance in intoxicated patients, lytics in PE and much, much more. [AS] Evaluating the patient with diarrhea can be pretty crappy. Get a better grasp of the IDSA recommendations with this pearl from the University of Maryland. [RP] EM cases has a great two part deep dive on GI bleeds, Part 1 and Part 2. [MG]  [Editor’s note: Two of our own, Swami and Salim, are on the podcast} PHEMcast features recent BASICS and FPHC pr...
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