LITFL Review 169

Welcome to the 169th 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

EMOttawa shares their top EBM papers from 2014 in this really useful blog post. [SL]

A fantastic resource of Paediatric Trauma Pearls and Pitfallsfrom emDocs. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Great new Procedurette video from Whit Fisher on the lost art of osteophony. [AS]
• Excellent Paucis Verbis (PV) card for just in time reminder for POC echocardiography from ALiEM. [AS]
• Has the time for clot retrieval devices in the care of acute ischemic stroke finally come to pass? Ryan Radecki takes a great look at the recent lit and controversial use for carefully selected patients. [AS]
• The Sceptic’s Guide to Emergency Medicine takes on another classic paper in SGEM#106: O Canada: Canadian CT Head Rule for Patients with Minor Head Injury. [MG]
• Major trauma transfusions: plasma, platelets and RBCs–what’s the best ratio? Take a look at these two reviews by St Emlyns and The Bottom Line. [SL]
• Everyday EBM features a great case and summary of Brugada syndrome. [MG]
• Topical for our EDs at the moment: Luke Regan and friends take a look at prioritisation skills in the ED. [SL]
• ERCast features an excellent rebuttal by Rory Spiegel on the utility of CT coronary angiogram (CTCA) in patients with chest pain. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• More discussion of the PROPPR trial from Rory Spiegel in “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier,” from The Bottom Line and St. Emlyn’s blog. [AS]
• Excellent review of how you need to think and execute an awake airway in a patient with a mechanical obstruction from the Maryland CC Project. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• The Poison Review discusses some of the many dangers of tramadolprescriptions. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Are you afraid of pediatric EKGs? Take the Don’t Forget the Bubbles quiz to see what you know and what you don’t. [AS]
• What’s the best way to fix a Pulled (aka Nursemaid’s) Elbow? Read Broomedocs to find out why hyperpronation is preferred to supination-flexion. [AS]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

• #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMres
• #FOAMped – #FOAMtox – #FOAMus
• #FOAMim – #FOANed