LITFL Update 012

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Latest updates from the #FOAMed world

Looking after patients with non-epileptiform seizures are a challenging, and common, event in the Emergency Department. St.Emlyns bring us a short sharp podcast on recognising and managing these in the ED.

• Non-epileptiform seizures with Steve Warriner

The team at Taming the SRU looks at a recent study on using Etco2 to identify sick patients at triage, its most probably not the gold were looking for, but it seems better than relying on the respiratory rate.

• Etco2 vs standard triage vitals in predicting in hospital mortality and ICU admission.

TTP isn’t the most exciting topic in emergency medicine, but given its infrequence, a quick update is worth a read from the team at CORE EM.

• Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)

Anton is back at Emergency Medicine Case with this month’s quick hits with banging topics from penetrating trauma tips, to using the slip lamp to remove a foreign body in the foot.

• EM Quick Hits 49 Stroke Management Update, Intussusception, 5 Penetrating Trauma Tips, Skin Foreign Body Hack, CT Radiation Risk.