LITFL Review 326

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 326th 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. Readers can subscribe to LITFL review RSS or LITFL review EMAIL subscription The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week Read this special collaboration between EMCrit RACC and Dr Smith : The OMI Manifesto. This well cited review is a detailed explanation of the false dichotomy between STEMI and NSTEMI, and suggests new terminology consistent with the latest evidence. [MG] A powerful story from Ashley Liebig about the words we use in front of patients, expecting the unexpected, and the negative encounters that can and do happen in patient care. Our jobs are hard and stressful but don’t ever forget the importance of kindness and humanity in the patients you care for. [SR]   The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Are IV antibiotics better than oral antibiotics in cellulitis? Justin Morgenstern takes a deep dive. [AS, SR] Brit Long goes through some common pitfalls in UTI diagnosis. WBCs in the UA are not diagnostic of UTI, Symptoms are important since UTI is a clinical diagnosis [SR] ...
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