The LITFL Review 102 - Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog

Welcome to the 102nd edition!

The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.

The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week

Resus.ME

• Cliff Reid over at?Resus.ME?smashes his way to top spot this week, as he brings us 3 great hot-of-the-press articles, that really tackle the core of what we do. He starts off with?Another argument for ED thoracotomy?- yes that?s right ? we know we don?t often get a meaningful outcome for these patients, but we can give their families and other patients an meaningful outcome through organ donation. Cliff then sheds some light on where EMCC is, and where it should be heading on?Upstairs vs Downstairs: an EPIC Conundrum?- the?comments?on this post are a must read. He finishes the week with a look at ?swallowing a camera in GI bleed - ?it can?only?diagnose and not treat, making its?benefit?questionable?in the unstable patient ? but an interesting concept none the less!

The LITFL Review Top Picks

Emergency Medicine Ireland

StEmylns

EXPENSIVECARE

• David leaves the hustle and bustle of the ICU and takes us on a journey into?What is Palliative Care??A lesson for us all in here!
  

eMeducation

?EMCrit

The Sono Cave

Emergency Medicine Tutorials

SCANCRIT

• SAM?- What?s SAM you ask??SAM stands for Systolic Anterior Motion of the mitral valve and may be seen as a complication of hypertrophic cardiomyopathies (HCM), myocardial infarction and mitral valve repair or dysfunction.
  

The Short Coat

Broome Docs

SOCMOB

The Trauma Professional?s Blog

• The First Law Of Trauma ? Remember:?Any anomaly in your trauma patient is due to trauma, no matter how unlikely it may seem (? until proven otherwise).
  

Academic Life in Emergency Medicine

boringem

Pediatric EM Morsels

• Eyelid Laceration?-Nice Review of a deceptively difficult diagonsis and management problem.
  

Emergency Physicians Monthly

The Poison Review

PHARM

Resus Review

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

• This?episode?focuses on the renal colic shuffle, and can you flush that stone out? Want to know more have a?listen?to -?Stone Me.

empem.org

• ?Headaches in kids?-?In this ?noggin-cast? they explore the causes of headache, including primary headachse like migraine and tension headache, and secondary headaches from viral illness and a few other strangeosities?

thebluntdissection

• in with a chance??- A?superb, simple informative overview by Chris on managing and recognising a trauma patient with a chance fracture.
  

Dr Smith?s ECG Blog

PEM ED

?Practical Evidence

• Episode 12 ? New Trauma Guidelines: ATLS and Spine. Scott brings us up-to-date with the new ATLS guidelines for 2013! Take home point: less clear stuff and more red stuff is the key to resuscitating the haemorrhaging trauma patient.
  

Resus Room Management

EKG Videos

?EMpills

UMEM Educational Pearls

This weeks pearl on Keppra is by Ellen Lemkin:

• Although Keppra has been used more frequently in clinical practice, there is little evidence for its use in status epilepticus.
• It has a wide spectrum of action and few drug interactions.
• Initially, case series appeared to be highly successful in terminating seizures as an add-on agent.
• A review of 2 prospective studies found efficacies of 44% as an add- on agent, and 75% as a primary agent. The studies had markedly different populations.
• In a retrospective study, the treatment failure rates were 3X higher than that of intravenous valproic acid as an add-on agent in terminating status epilepticus.
• Therefore, although it is used frequently, the evidence for use is limited and inconclusive in terminating status epilepticus.

The LITFL Review Shout Out of the Week

EM Journey

Shout this week goes to new Aussie Blog?EM Journey?By Chris Edwards (@EMtravellor). Chris? philosophy?for this blog is:?Given the wealth of blog and podcasts sites available, I am attempting to find a niche by providing a forum for a concept I thought of, called Crowd Learning and Problem Solving (CLaPS).?

The?GMEP?Cases of the week

GMEP Video of the week

Video of the week is By James Rippey on?Emergency Department Surgical Airway Pathway.

GMEP Image of the week

This patient came in septic with hypotension, tachycardia, obtunded mental status.?What?s the Diagnosis?

Twee Dee and Twitical Care

The medical photographer really doesn?t like it when I photobomb her pictures.

News from the Fastlane

The Final Words

• ?Every Turkey has a Terminal Event?

- Billy Mallon

• ?Critical Care should be a Philosophy- Not a Place?

- Haney Mallemat

LITFL Review EM/CC Educational Social Media Round Up

Show Reference list

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