LITFL Review 160
Welcome to the 160th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest, and deliver a bite-sized chunk of Global FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
The London Trauma Conference was held this week. If you didn’t get a chance to go, and even if you did, there are some great summaries from Louise Chan on Resus.me and Iain Beardsell and Co. at St. Emlyns. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- EM Lyceum review four debatable issues in the management of seizures in the Emergency Department including status epilepticus, imaging for first time seizures and pseudoseizures. [AS]
- You’ve probably heard of deWinter’s T-waves, but the presentation keeps getting more diverse. Amal Mattu brings us up to speed with this EKG case of the week. [MG]
- Student’s will be interested in St Emlyn’s induction podcast on chest pain in the ED. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Should we start using TEE in cardiac arrest management instead of TTE? emDocs.net reviews some of the advantages and disadvantages of this modality. [AS]
- The UK Intensive Care Society held its yearly State of the Art Conference on the 8th till the 10th of December. The ICS blog has a recap of all the activities. Crit-iq also blogged about it. Enjoy the pearls! [SO]
- Microwave technology, ketamine in agitated psych patients requiring aeromed transfer and more review of the cutting edge discussions from the London Trauma Conference via Resus.me. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Are you ready for ultrasound guided CPR? Matt + Mike discuss how we’re doing CPR wrong and what we can do to improve. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Excellent induction podcast and blog post from St. Emlyn’s on the care of the child with shortness of breath. Contains a nice link to PED EM Morsels (Sean Fox) on bronchiolitis treatment as well. [AS]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- iTeachEM discusses Stress Inoculation Training with Mike Lauria and it’s role in medical student and resident education. [AS]
- Great post on developing the EM Mindset for medical students and junior trainees from Bob Stuntz and emDocs.net. [AS]
- The Road Ahead for FOAM from Aidan Baron on LITFL. [AS]
LITFL Weekly Review Team
LITFL RV brought to you by:
- Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM:RAP, Core EM,REBEL EM and The Teaching Institute)
- Andrew J. Bowman [AJB]
- Bruno Tomazini [BT] (ICURevisited)
- Chris Connolly [CC] (RCEMFOAMed, FOAMShED)
- Chris Nickson [CN] (RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
- Cian McDermott [CMD] (POCUS Geelong, SMACC)
- Craig Wylie [CW] (BadEM)
- Jeffrey Shih [JSh](ALiEM)
- Luke Phillips [LP] (POCUS Geelong)
- Manpreet ‘Manny’ Singh [MMS] (emDOCs.net)
- Marjorie Lazoff [ML] (TandemHealth)
- Mat Goebel [MG]
- Matt Siuba [MS]
- Philippe Rola [PR] (Thinkingcriticalcare)
- Rick Pescatore [RP] (EM News UC:RAP)
- Sarah Newman [SN]
- Salim Rezaie [SR] (REBEL EM, The Teaching Institute)
- Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast, The Bottom Line)
- Thomas C. Neal [TCN] (PulmCCM)
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