LITFL Review 167

Welcome to the 167th 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 Week Janu-airway continues over at EMcrit with things Scott Weingart learned at the NYC airway course. [MG]The Best of #FOAMed Emergency MedicineShould men and women have different cutoff values to define a positive troponin? EM Lit of Note discusses a recent article in the BMJ (Free Open Access Article!). [AS]Small bowel obstruction: what do we look for in the history and examination and what does it mean? Brush up on your diagnostic skills with this post from SinaiEM and complemented fantastically by FOAMcast’s post and podcast on the same topic. [SL]St. Emlyn’s discusses an update to the MACS decision instrument for stratifying chest pain patients in the ED. [AS]Prehospital Ultrasound, transfers and prehospital TXA are all discussed in this great podcast from the London Trauma Conference, with David McCreary interviewing Stefan Mazur following the lectures he gave at this conference. [SL]Ken, Matt and Mike discuss the JAMA rational clinical examination on ectopic pregnancy this week on the SGEM. [AS]Scott Aberegg from Medical Evidence blog has a thoughtful article on the Therapeutic Paradox: What’s...
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