 Headlines in the thelocal.es Many rumours are going around about Metamizole; most of them are full of fear of potential side effects. Some countries like Ireland and GB have banned this drug due to the rare side effect of agranulocytosis. A fact is too that many other countries like Switzerland continue to use Metamizole on a regular basis and find low incidence rates of 0.46-1.63 cases per million person-days of use (2006-2012). Regarding serious side effects associated with other analgesics used (e.g. acute liver failure with Paracetamol, renal failure with NSAID) it is difficult to understand why Metamizole needs to be banned when the others are available over the counter. Get all the information AND literature you need to be prepared and discuss here: https://icurevisited.com/dipyrone-metamizole/  This site provides a growing number of reliable FOAM-resources, dedicated to provide expert knowledge for health care professionals. A special section has no been added, that provides many links to COVID-19 specific resources. www.foam.education Reference
1. Reid C, Rees V, Collyer-Merritt H. Non-septic hyperlactataemia in the emergency department. Emerg Med J. 2010 May;27(5):411–2 This is an excellent 5 min video on the proper use of a Linton tube in massive bleeding varices!
 "The Critical Care Reviews Book summarises, critiques and puts in context the biggest trials of the year." There is not much more to add. Rob Mac Sweeney and four other intensivists of Northern Ireland try to make the impossible - possible. On 344 pages they have summarised a selection of the maybe most relevant trials concerning critical care of 2016. In regards of all the countless trials published every year this is a fantastic piece of work. Supporting the idea of Free Open Access Meducation this book is free for download and a must for any clinician involved in critial care.
Great job lads! The free download is available HERE  This excellent post by Josh Farkas from Emcrit.org resumes nicely on how our daily work sometimes is influenced by fears and not knowledge. If you are worried to give a patient meropenem after he had an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin in the past... then this reading is for you!
His Bottom Line comes as follows:
Don't miss out this excellent post: PulmCrit mythbusting - Anaphylaxis to penicillins isn’t a contraindication to meropenem This overview comes in very handy when you want to correlate the coronary arteries territories with wall motion abnormalities found on echocardiography. Thanx to Sam Ghali aka @EM_RESUS for this post on Twitter.  This is a picture of an ICU monitor... Question: What is going on here and what would you do first?  For the answer click 'read more'  Doctors get thought many things that must be done in one sort of way and we do many things because we were thought so! Sometimes it is important though to question standard procedures especially as our knowledge grows rapidly over time.
It's only a couple of years ago many anaesthetists were thought to insert central lines 'blindly' by using anatomical landmarks. X-rays confirmed line placement, ideally in the lower part of the superior vena cava, and excluded complications like a pneumothorax. Line placement in the right atrium was said to cause cardiac perforation and accidental placement in the contralateral subclavian vein often led to re-insertions of new lines. But important questions remains: Is this all really true? What actually do we know? PulmCrit.org looked into this issue and just posted an excellent little review. Their bottom line is:
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