LITFL Review 164

Welcome to the 164th 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 WeekThe journal Critical Care has always been an online source of excellent resuscitation information… and has now become 100% OPEN ACCESS. You heard that right, folks. Dive in! [SO]The Best of #FOAMed Emergency MedicineThe Skeptics Guide discusses the utility of antiemetics in undifferentiated vomiting in the Emergency Department. [AS]Excellent review of CT Coronary Angiogram (CTCA) from ERCast with Rob Orman interviewing Judd Hollander. [AS]Another great case of a developing STEMI and the importance of serial ECGs shared by Amal Mattu from a new location for the ECG Weekly Vidcast. [AS]The Best of #FOAMcc Critical CareRory Spiegel reviews the (lack of) evidence for the use of balanced solutions over normal saline in resuscitation of the critically ill patient. [AS]Gareth Davies and Iain Beardsell discuss brain apnea and some of the nuances of managing these patients on the St. Emlyn’s podcast. [AS]The Bottom Line dissects the CHEER trial (Mech CPR, Hypothermia, ECMO + Early Reperfusion. [AS]What is ischemic conditioning? How might it be used in managing a cardiac arrest patient? Find on on the ED ECMO...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Education LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs