LITFL Review 176

Welcome to the 176th 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

Brilliant podcast reviewing when to activate the cath lab for emergency PCI, pearls and pitfalls in diagnosing acute MI from Weingart and Steve Smith. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Looking to add in situ simulation to your department? Great podcast from Injectable Orange on the benefits, tips and how to get started. [AS]
• Can fever get so high that it causes brain damage? ERCast features Andy Sloan with his take on cooling and working up fever. [MG]
• Here’s the first of three posts by Richard Body from St Emlyn on improving triage and recognition time of the STEMI patient in the ED. Can you get your door-in door-out (DIDO) time better? [SO]
• Simple but critical pearls in mechanical ventilation management in the emergency department from the University of Maryland. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• The Society of Critical Medicine’s update to Surviving Sepsis Campaignguidelines are online, incorporating the results from ProMISe. [SO]
• Josh Farkas from Pulmcrit trawls through the literature on contrast induced nephropathy, and makes some fascinating discoveries. A must read. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Here’s another neat post and 5 minute video from INTENSIVE on measuring cardiac output using echocardiography. [SO]
• A rather unusual ultrasound of the week. This time it’s penile pain. Oh dear. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Scared of kids? How about neonates? Don’t Forget the Bubbles has an excellent series on Neonatal Resuscitation: Part 1 and Part 2. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• A very sad article about a well-meaning but horribly flawed computer order entry system that, together with a now guilt-ridden nurse, caused the death of a 16 year old. [SO, ML]
• It’s not your imagination, there really is an online lecture on Somatiform Disordersat The University of Louisville’s Louisville Lectures. The sound is quite low on my system. [ML]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

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