LITFL Review 312

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 312nd 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 SGEM often posts thoughtful “skeptical” reviews on logical-sounding procedures and treatments, as it has this week: discover the non-value of therapeutic hypothermia in convulsive status epilepticus. [MG]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine NSAIDs, acetaminophen or both in minor extremity trauma? St. Emlyn’s reviews a recent article looking at the question. [AS] Crack-Cast is back with an awesome dive into skin infections. We can’t get enough of these clinical pearls. [CC/MG] Beware the unexplained tachycardia…..some learning for us all with case-based quality in EM discussions from EM-Docs! [CC] Ryan Radecki reminds us that while the benefits of antibiotics in upper respiratory infections (strep throat, sinusitis etc) are suspect, the harms are well established and, likely outweigh the benefits. [AS] CoreEM reviews the evidence for pelvic exam in first trimester bleeding, and IVC collapsibility for fluid responsivenes...
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