LITFL Review 189

Welcome to the 189th 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

The American College of Emergency Physicians made some pretty significant changes to its tPA clinical policy. Find out what they were and get comments from the experts on this week’s FOAMcast. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• How does eliminating the “zero-miss rate” for chest pain affect admission versus discharge decisions in the ED? EM Lit of Note discusses a recent article from Academic Emergency Medicine. [AS]
• If you’ve heard of giving steroids instead of antibiotics for strep throat, you’ll want to read this thoughtful review of the evidence at Emergency Medicine PharmD. [MG]
• What constitutes a “large bore IV”? Look at some real data at the ETMCourse. [MG]
• Find out the details and background about Jehovah’s Witnesses beliefs regarding blood products at The Trauma Professional’s Blog. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Not convinced that ATLS is for amateurs? Check out this post from ScanCrit on the many weaknesses of ATLS. [AS]
• REBEL EM reviews the new ACC/AHA recommendations on which patients should go to cardiac catheterization post-ROSC. Excellent editorial highlighting major issues with this algorithm. [AS]
• EMUpdates discusses a better way to place a central line with the wire through catheter technique. [AS]
• Another step beyond basic ACLS: Cliff Reid discusses the role of inhaled nitric oxide in cardiac arrest patients with pulmonary hypertension. [AS]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• Academic Life in Emergency Medicine University has launched! The first free online learning module is in the Capsule series – The Pharmacology of Sepsis. [AS]
• Looking for your next #FOAMed conference fix? Have a read of what Rick Body has install for the RCEM September conference and dust off those post-SMACC-blues! [SL]

News from the Fast Lane

• Check out another jammed packed edition of Research and Review in the Fast Lane 091 [ML]

Reference Sources and Reading List

• Emergency Medicine and Critical Care blog/podcast list
• LITFL Global Blogroll
• FOAMEM RSS feed syndication for global FOAM
• Twitter: #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMtox – #FOAMped – #FOAMus – #FOAMim

Brought to you by:

• Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM Lyceum, iTeachEM)
• Brent Thoma [BT] (BoringEM and Academic Life in EM)
• Chris Connolly [CC]
• Chris Nickson [CN] ( iTeachEM, RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
• Joe-Anthony Rotella [JAR]
• Kane Guthrie [KG]
• Mat Goebel [MG]
• Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast)
• Simon Laing [SL] (HEFTEMCast)
• Tessa Davis [TRD] (Don’t Forget The Bubbles)
• Marjorie Lazoff [ML]

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