According to an editorial in the NEJM, decompressive craniectomy “has a proven benefit in the management of malignant cerebral edema after ischemic stroke”… We point out the caveats to this assertion.
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LITFL Review 253
Welcome to the 253rd 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. The Most Fair […]

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 162
By Neil Long
Be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 162
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 155
Welcome to the 155th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature. […]

LITFL Review 252
Welcome to the 252nd 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. The Most Fair […]

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 161
By Neil Long
Be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 161
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 154
154rd edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media

JellyBean 050 with Sara Nikolić
By Doug Lynch
Sara Nikolić with a little celebration of everyone in the #FOAMed world because we are more than clinicians. We are people. We have feelings and we get sad…


