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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

Stayin Alive

Here’s how to ‘stay alive’ with ‘hands only CPR’ in the UK… Thanks to Vinnie Jones of all people!

Clear!!!

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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?

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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

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Can you resist the urge to apply for a job with Sydney HEMS after watching this video?

To thoracotomy, or not to thoracotomy?

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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

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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

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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.

Own the FEAST!

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We recently featured a video on what could turn out to be the emergency medicine/ critical care ‘Trial of the Year’… That’s right, the FEAST Trial:

A Surprising FEAST

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A surprising FEAST: “Fluid boluses significantly increased 48-hour mortality in critically ill children with impaired perfusion in… resource-limited settings in Africa.”