LITFL Review 162
Welcome to the 162nd 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
Fantastic new podcast channel from Jesse Spurr, with a gem of an episode with Ross Fisher on presentation skills. If you’re planning a presentation make certain to have a listen…..first! [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- More excellent analysis of the MR CLEAN trial on intra-arterial treatment of ischemic CVA, this time, from Rory Spiegel. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Amal Mattu discusses the identification and treatment of a common problem: Non-sustained Ventricular Tachycardia. [AS]
- Resus.me has a nice succinct critique of the THRIVE study which uses high-flow nasal cannula for apneic oxygenation instead of standard nasal cannula. [AS]
- There’s no sensitive and specific way to predict that a patient will have a difficult airway but trying to do so is still useful, in that it ensures that we think about the airway. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Sean Fox at PED EM Morsels discusses the question of which steroids are better for asthma – dex or pred? [TRD]
- Don’t Forget the Bubbles provides an approach to paediatric knee x-ray interpretation. [TRD]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Amazing tips from Chris Nickson on the ALiEM “How I Work Smarter” series. [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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Marjorie Lazoff, MD FACP. Board certified internist with clinical background in academic emergency medicine, currently the founder of The Healing Red Pen, an editorial consulting company. Dr Lazoff is a full-time editor and strong supporter of FOAMed.