The LITFL Review 154

The LITFL Review is 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 chuck of FOAM. Welcome to the 154th edition, brought to you by: Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM Lyceum, iTeachEM) Brent Thoma [BT] (BoringEM and Academic Life in EM) Chris Connolly [CC] Chris Nickson [CN] ( iTeachEM, RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC) Joe-Anthony Rotella [JAR] Kane Guthrie [KG] Mat Goebel [MG] Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast) Simon Laing [SL]  (HEFTEMCast) Tessa Davis [TRD] (Don’t Forget The Bubbles) The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week What’s the best approach to blunt traumatic cardiac arrest? Learn from Weingart and Hinds in this week’s EMCrit podcast. [MG] If you watch only one lecture on EKGs this year, it has to be Steve Smith’s SMACC talk on “Subtle ECG Signs of Ischemia.” [MG] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine How much does the urine dip affect your pretest probability? Boring EM offers a nice review of the (+) and (-) likelihood ratios for urine dipstick testing. [AS] All antibiotics have the potential to worsen symptoms of myasthenia gravis but some more than others. Bryan Hayes reviews the topic on ALiEM focusing on the fact that we should ensure to use the best antibiotic for the infection that’s affecting the patient...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs