LITFL Review 331

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 331st 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 One of the most challenging blog posts I have ever read is this one on codependency and the (emergency) physician from St Emlyn’s. Food for thought. [SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Fantastic review of the literature on the absence of evidence to support our insistence on fasting prior to procedural sedation from First10EM. [AS, SR] Our own Salim Rezaie reminds us that alcohol may blind us to potential badness in our ER patients. Having served as an expert witness I have seen how costly a missed critical diagnosis in the intoxicated patient can be costly to our patient…and to us [AJB] Don’t get fooled by chest trauma: Pulmonary pearls & pitfalls, from the emDocs crew. [BT] The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation Josh Farkas discusses a simple airway algorithm to deal with intubating a patient who is actively vomiting: ...
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