Blogs!

 

Thoracocentesis…how much can you safely remove?

Josh Farkas tells us

 

Salim does snakes!

Great blog on envenomation and treatment from Megan Spyres

 

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***JW’s pick of CCR papers***

Thanks to Rob MacSweeny at criticalcarereviews for all of this again! Here are my top picks:

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Publications and articles

LA toxicity…are we getting our knickers in a twist?!

We all panic about dose / volume etc…but how worried should we be? See this table taken from Amit Pawa’s article. See it here

 

ABCD of quadruple tree echo!

Thanks to Zedu US for the pointers here

POCUS!

PE in transit

Pierre Huette shows us this monster passing through the Tricuspid valve!

Pneumomediastinum!

Amyloidosis

Usama Nasir shows us this echo case

Takutsubo…they can move territory!

Thanks to Daniel Ambinder for these excellent images!

CPR…too low!!

Look at this LVOT obstruction on TEE due to a misplaced Lucas! Thx to Tom Jelic for this.

 

LAD STEMI!

Diaphragm and weaning / extubation

RCA aneurysm

A thoracic aorta you don’t want!

Thx to Phillipe Rola for this

 

Those bugs spread everywhere!

Dilated cardiomyopathy and regurge…everywhere!

Too and fro in SBO

 

Tweets

 

Follow this to learn about Hepatorenal syndrome!

Triad of doom in trauma

Don’t let FAST slow you down!

How to write a research paper!

Thx to WritethatpHD for this

Surgery for those #ribs?!

Seems to be a thing, but only in the first 3 days…no point thereafter.

Post-extubation problems!

 

TIVA….good old TIVA!

 

Diastolic heart failure!

Seems HFpEF is a bad one to have Vs. HFrEF….

 

Well said Salim!

 

Infographics

 

TEG made easy!

Thanks to RebelEM for this

CSF

Vivamatch tell us where CSF is made

 

Check out anti-neoplastic man!

What the chemo drugs can do to you!

Sickle Cell infographic

Thanks to Pastest for this

 

DKA….pathophysiology!

Thanks to Manual of Medicine for this.

 

More on Delirium

Thanks to Linda Dykes for the infographic.

 

Lung masses – CAVITY!

Jehovah’s witnesses!

They can be a difficult management debacle when bleeding. See the association’s take on it in this noice infographic!

 

Manual of medicine and Anti-Anginal drugs!

Thanks to them for this

 

Resources

Emergency and rapid response care!

Check out the Rapid Response Team handbook!

 

Radiology Cafe eBook!

Download and look at this great resource here

Videos

Pleural effusions part 1

Lovely stuff from the brilliant Jacob Avila

 

 

Forthcoming

• 2 book reviews!
• Review of the iVIZ portable POCUS device from Fujifilm Sonosite
• Albumin – a review
• More quality FOAM trawls

Thats all for now

JW (Oct 10th 2018)