LITFL Review 161

Welcome to the 161st 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 chuck of FOAM.The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the WeekExcellent discussion of the role of Human Factors in medicine from the PHARM podcast featuring Nick Chrimes and Martin Bromiley. [AS]The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine“The Opiate Free ED” –  A better approach to pain control in the Emergency Department. Scott discusses alternative approaches to opiates with Sergey Motov. [AS]Flu season is heating up, at least for those in the Northern Hemisphere. Will you be prescribing neuraminidase inhibitors? The SGEM discusses the tome from the Cochrane Colaborative and EM Lit of Note discusses the parenteral drug peramivir. [AS]Intraarterial therapy for stroke has a new entry (MR CLEAN trial). EM Literature of Note and St. Emlyn’s offer excellent reviews of the article that caution us to not get too excited about the results. [AS]EM Literature of Note also discusses the ICARO-3 study, a real-world efficacy study of intra-arterial interventions in stroke. Another study which also question whether intra-arterial therapy should be embraced. [AS]The Best of #FOAMcc Critical CareThe Bottom Line reviews the use of esmolol in patients with refractory vent...
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