LITFL Review 327
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Welcome to the 327th 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.
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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Rory Spiegel, in his typically eloquent manner, provides a rebuttal to the recent New York Times article on tPA in stroke. He suggests, “The question should not be, is tPA effective for the treatment of acute CVA but rather, why after 23 years do we still not know the answer?” [SR]
If you missed his talks at AAEM (or some other time), then definitely check out Bryan Hayes’s lecture handouts: [MMS]
Deadly Medication Mistakes
Killer Cases in Toxicology
Beyond Benzodiazepines in Severe Alcohol Withdrawal
Settling Controversies in the Management of Hyperkalemia: Focus on Calcium and Insulin
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
Rick Body explores the greys in between the oft-reported black and white of diagnostic tests. [AS, SR]. Another shade of grey: Josh Farkas, does it again…simplifying p values and what they actually mean. The binary cutoff of <0...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
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