LITFL Review 336
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Welcome to the 336th 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 chunk of FOAM.
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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Jonny Wilkinson...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 18, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Metformin monotherapy versus dual therapy with the addition of a sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT-2)
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - June 17, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: endocrinology pharmacology Source Type: blogs
Citric Acid Increases Balloon Inflation (aka sour taste makes you more risky)
fromBalloon Analog Risk Task (BART)– Joggle Research for iPadRisk taking andrisk preference1 are complex constructs measured byself-report questionnaires ( “propensity”), laboratory tasks, and the frequency of real-life behaviors (smoking, alcohol use, etc). A recent mega-study of 1507 healthy adults byFrey et al. (2017) measured risk preference using six questionnaires (and their subscales), eight behavioral tasks, and six frequency measures of real-life behavior.Table 1 (Frey et al., 2017).Risk-taking measures used in the Basel-Berlin Risk Study.-- click on image for a larger view --The authors were intereste...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 17, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
" Shark Fin " : A Deadly ECG Sign that you Must Know!
Conclusions:Shark Fin is an electrocardiographic sign of acute coronary occlusion. It is a unique ECG phenomenon consisting of complexes formed by the blurring together of QRS and T-wave as a result of extreme ST-Deviation. These complexes manifest in contiguous ECG leads corresponding with coronary anatomy, and represent transmural ischemia. Shark Fin Sign should be recognized based on its characteristic morphology, and confirmed by delineating the J-point using the technique described above. While there is a paucity of literature on the topic, the presence of this sign appears to be associated with a significant mortalit...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 11, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
