What single question unlocks the mystery of how a patient with hypokalemia had a cardiac arrest 30 minutes after being treated during retrieval?
The LITFL Review 056
February 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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.
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January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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.
Disco still saves lives
January 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
Here’s how to ‘stay alive’ with ‘hands only CPR’ in the UK… Thanks to Vinnie Jones of all people!
Clear!!!
December 27, 2011 By 4 Comments
LITFL’s ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’ Rick Abbott tells us about his personal adventures with ‘hands on’ defibrillation and cardioversion… Are you ready for CPR with no interruptions?
R&R in the FASTLANE 001
November 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
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.
Working in the Sky
October 17, 2011 By 8 Comments
Can you resist the urge to apply for a job with Sydney HEMS after watching this video?
To thoracotomy, or not to thoracotomy?
August 30, 2011 By 5 Comments
A chest trauma patient lies before you. When would you perform an emergency thoracotomy? A case-based Q&A approach to the indications and contraindications.
Noninvasive Ventilation and the critically ill
August 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
LITFL puts you to the test, with 10 of the best Questions and Answer from this months EM Critical Care Article on Noninvasive Ventilation.
It’s up to us
July 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
In the critical care specialties we have to make things happen, sometimes this involves life-saving actions that may have never before performed. We must be ready, after all, in the words of Peter Safar, “it’s up to us to save the world!” Cliff Reid tells us how.
