LITFL Review 171
Welcome to the 171st 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
Interested in Free Ultrasound Ebooks? Not sure where to find them? Kasia Hampton from Sonokids has an entire list for you right here! [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Should we treat all sore throats with antibiotics in fear of Fusobacterium Necrophorum? Not so fast says EM Lit of Note. [AS]
- EM Lyceum posts its “answers” to debatable topics surrounding infectious disease questions including home management of patients with neutropenic fever and the role of oseltamivir in influenza. [AS]
- Excellent review of serious dermatologic diseases from Stuart Swadron, Mel Herbert and HIPPO EM. [AS]
- EMCrit features an interview with the lead author of the PROPPR trial, John Holcomb. [AS]
- Here’s a good review of opioid overdose in the ED from the St Emlyn’s crew. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Haney Mallemat discusses the care of the critically ill pregnant patient. Free content from Mel Herbert and Essentials of Emergency Medicine. [AS]
- Everyday EBM has a wonderful mini-review of the management of acute right heart failure. (Thanks to the Swami for the heads up) [SO]
- Phillipe Rola and Jon-Emile Kenny join heads to discuss inferior vena cava appearances and fluid status. As people do when they hang out. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- A couple of bits on lipid emulsion therapy from the chaps at the Poison Review- a discussion on its role in treating calcium channel and beta-blocker overdose, and a general overview of the literature on it so far. Worth a read! [SO]
- The Poison Review Podcast team are back with their latest episode where they discuss their favourite posters from the recent NACCT meeting in New Orleans [JAR]
- NZREM recently posted a nice little review on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning – an oldie but a goodie! [JAR]
- How do you manage opiate overdose in the ED? As discussed by the team at St Emlyn’s, no single approach suits every patient. A great read! [JAR]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Truly astounding images from Ultrasound of the week #39. Have a look for yourselves! [SO]
- The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine has a delightful summary offour simple echocardiograph parameters associated with increased mortality in PE. [SO]
- Consider adding the right parasternal view to your echo repertoire- it can be helpful, as Phillipe Rola demonstrates in this case. (I wonder what a suprasternal would have showed?) [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Nice review of the strengths and weaknesses of the Alvarado and Pediatric Appendicitis scores for appendicitis risk stratification from Sean Fox and EMDocs.net. [AS]
- Damian Roland presents a great case (with video) of a scary, often-missed paediatric diagnosis. It’s not “just a fever”– or is it? [SO]
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.