LITFL Review 328

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 328th 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 Simon Carley reviews the top 10 trauma papers from 2017 – 2018. He has limited this to studies that would affect our bedside care of trauma patients, though there was a real paucity of these. [SR] Andy Neill and the RCEM team presents us with a gut wrenching review of aortic dissection–the Zebra of the chest pain family. He speaks with a family member of a missed dissection who unfortunately died and with a dissection survivor. Andy then interviews experts on the presentation and management of this uncommon but deadly condition. [LP, MG]  The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Don’t get sick to your stomach over the initial management of patients with undifferentiated GI bleeds! The strength and extent of the evidence behind using octreotide and somatostatin in these patients is reviewed by our own Salim Rezaie on R.E.B.E.L. EM’s latest podcast. [TCN] Ni...
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