LITFL Review 315

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 315th 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 Rob Macsweeney of Critical Care Reviews posts the 2 hour livestream of the ADRENAL Trial as FOAM. Fast forward to 1:01:31 to see the beginning of the presentation and save an hour of your time.  This international RCT of 3800 patients in septic shock showed no difference in 90 day mortality, but an improved shock reversal, LOS in the ICU, blood transfusion requirements, and shorter time needed for mechanical ventilation in those given hydrocortisone vs placebo. We still don’t have long term outcomes, however the authors are planning on publishing 6 month outcomes at a later date. See too other notable FOAM on the same study,:EM Lit of Note, EM Crit, and The Bottom Line also analyze the recent ADRENAL trial results. [SR]  Also from Rob Mac Sweeney and the Critical Care Reviews team comes the CCR Book 2018–all the best critical care trials of 2018 distilled and discussed for easy reading. Absolutely essential #foamed. [SO]   The Best ...
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