LITFL Review 320

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 320th 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 Deep dive into flu controversies on this episode of FOAMcast, including a review of the CDC recommendations and evidence from a 2014 Cochrane Review. [MMS, SR] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Dr. Smith’s ECG blog features a fantastic post on a patient with shoulder pain. The specifics, while important, aren’t the big takeaway. Rather it is the focus on being an advocate for your patient and not succumbing to believing that the specialist knows all. [AS, SR] This great review from CanadiEM is a timely reminder on the assessment and management of suspected DVT in ED. [CC] In case you missed last week’s 2018 changes to the ATLS 10th Edition text, here’s a second pictorial summary of a review of the updates you need to know about. [MG/ML] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation You won’t want to miss “The Great Lactate Debate” Part 1 and Part 2, where Jon-Emile Kenny explains the incredibly complex interplay...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs