LITFL Review 175

Welcome to the 175th 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

If you are trained in transcutaneously pacing then you absolutely must read part 1 and part 2 of Transcutaneous Pacing Success, over at the EMS 12-Lead Blog. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• EM Didactic offers a great primer to the concept of cognitive bias in Emergency Medicine. [AS]
• Is there a role for prehospital use of furosemide in acute decompensated heart failure? Should it be given in the field at all? A Medic’s Medicine provides a thoughtful review of the literature. [MG]
• The Blunt Dissection is back, and kicking things off with the case of “a splitting headache.” [MG]
• Taming the SRU (Shock Resuscitation Unit, pronounced Shrew) features another fantastic prehospital trauma management case with thoughtfully curated expert commentary. Spoiler alert: read the case first before jumping ahead to the commentary to maximize your learning! [MG]
• Thinking about setting up an in situ simulation programme? Have a listen to this great podcast via Injectable Orange. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• This years EMCrit Critical Care Conference Blast Winner: Ice Water Baths for Rapid Cooling in Hyperthermia from Adaira Landry. [AS]
• Should we be giving empiric antibiotics post-resuscitation in all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests?  Yes, according to this study. Not so fast, according to Chris Bond’s latest blog entry. [AS]
• How to perform an awake intubation by Scott Weingart from SMACC Gold [AS]
• Haney Mallemat guest-authors a post on emDocs.net detailing how care of the obese patient in the ED is affected by their body habitus. [AS]
• Two new talks from the All NYC EM Podcast: CPR that Saves Lives from Salime Rezaie, and Aortic Dissection from Rob Rogers. [AS]
• Following the publication of the ProMISe trial, the NEJM Forum has featured a running debate with commentaries and answers from experts, including Kathy Rowan, the PI of the study. Check it out, and add your questions here. [SO]
• John Hinds talks about airway management in the ED and gives some great advice on how to develop an EM-delivered service. [SL]
• Listen to The Aikido of emergency sedation podcast, where Minh Le Cong, Casey Parker and Tim Leeuwenberg talk about providing martial arts-level care for acutely agitated patients in remote locations. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• Ever heard of methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV)? No? Oh, wait… how about bath salts? The Poison Review looks at the latest paper from the ToxIC Registry on laboratory-confirmed cases of MDPV toxicity [JAR]
• Did you know that bupropion has cocaine-like effects when you snort it? Neither did the manufacturer, it seems. Check out Leon Gussow’s review on therapeutic drugs that were thought not to have abuse potential, but do. [JAR]
• Suicide and risk assessment goes hand in hand with Toxicology. Casey Parker from broomedocs.com shares his lecture from the recent SWEETS Emergency Medicine Conference in Stockholm [JAR]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Here’s a useful post from the INTENSIVE blog on basic principles in ultrasound. [SO]
• Kylie Baker has a great video on the limitations of lung ultrasound in bullous emphysema. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Top 3 Peds Articles you need to know, with Richie Cantor via Essentials of Emergency Medicine. [AS]
• The SGEM discusses how long before kids with concussions can return to activity. [AS]
• On Paediatric Trauma, Ross Fisher continues the debate on whether pediatric trauma victims should be treated as little adults, on whether our adult skills translate well in caring for children? [SL]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

Just two weeks online and already a slugger’s home run! The University of Louisville’s Louisville Lectures contributes nearly a hundred didactics, grand rounds and other special lectures from their internal medicine residency program archives to the greater #FOAMed community. Their YouTube videos and iTunes/RSS podcasts can be freely accessed by specialty or by posting date.  [ML]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

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• #FOAMped – #FOAMtox – #FOAMus
• #FOAMim – #FOANed