LITFL Review 173

Welcome to the 173rd 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 WeekRemember Scott Weingart and Michael Lauria’s podcast on mental toughness? A beautifully nuanced comment was made following it, and it’s worth reading for all present and budding resuscitationists. [SO]The Best of #FOAMed Emergency MedicineExcellent discussion about the (dis)utility of BNP in the evaluation of patients with potential heart failure by Rory Spiegel. [AS]This month’s Annals of Emergency Medicine podcast is out! This edition includes articles on CT decision, Ketamine vs Fentanyl, syncope, EMS handoffs, blunt trauma, ultrasound for fractures, and tourniquets. [MG]Michelle Lin shares excellent tricks of the trade for the management of SVT in the ED via Essentials of EM 2014. [AS]What’s the flow rate for IO access? It depends! Find out more this week at Critical Care Anywhere. [MG]emDocs features a great writeup on acute ataxia in the ED. [MG]How common is deterioration in pulmonary embolism patients? Ryan Radecki turns his critical eye to a retrospective evaluation of the EINSTEIN PE study to help determine who can go home from the ED after the diagnosis of PE. [AS]Do you perform clos...

Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 17, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Anand Swaminathan Tags: Education LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs