In this month's EM Quick Hits: Heather Cary on the use and misuse of abdominal FAST in pediatric trauma, Hans Rosenberg and Arleigh McCurdy on the diagnosis and management of Multiple Myeloma in the ED, David Jerome on practice tips for managing the drowning patient, Brit Long and Michael Gottlieb on the diagnosis and management of Alcohol-Induced Ketoacidosis, Navpreet Sahsi on his journey to becoming a humanitarian and global EM doctor...

Topics include: management of postpartum hemorrhage, serotonin syndrome, severe TBI and brain herniation syndromes, ulcerative colitis, pediatric c-spine immobilization controversies, and the difference between humanitarian and development work.