LITFL Review 322

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 322nd 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 The Intensive Care Network have more podcasts from the CICM ASM. A new batch focusing on liver disease have just been released. Here’s the excellent Julia Wendon on “Liver disease: when to stop”? [SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Don’t get blindsided in the ED–check out this review of the basics of globe rupture at EMDaily. [RP] Nice review by EM Docs on the new AHA/ASA Ischemic Stroke Guidelines.  We see patients with stroke on almost every shift and it is essential we are up to date with the evidence as many interventions are time sensitive. [SR] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation Great podcast from the EMCrit crew on fluid resuscitation in critical burn patients.  Don’t bolus fluids, start at 500cc/hr, say goodbye to the parkland formula (Use 2cc/kg for %BSA burned over 24hrs, except in electrical burns use 4cc/kg), Titrate fluids based on UOP of 30 – 50cc/hr.  If UOP >50cc/hr, ...
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