LITFL Review 180

Welcome to the 180th 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

Billy Mallon discusses the role of ketamine in trauma as only Billy Mallon can, via the Essentials of Emergency Medicine best lectures of 2014. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• A great follow up to the Cricothyrotomy podcast last week from EMCrit looking at further airway discussions and online etiquette. [SL]
• The latest episode of FOAMcast is all about burns. [MG]
• Have you seen Wellen’s pseudonormalise? Head over to Dr Smith’s ECG blog for a great case. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• The St. Emlyn’s team reviews the top 10 trauma articles of the last 12 months. [AS]
• The guys at the Bottom Line take on the PREOXYFLOW study looking at high flow nasal oxygen in intubating hypoxaemic patients. Worth a read. [SO]
• Here’s an interesting post by Scott Aberegg on status quo bias in appraising critical care literature. Do you do the same? [SO]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• emDocs’ Zach Radwine has written a nice overview on Carbon Monoxide– an oldie but a goodie! [JAR]
• Synthetic cannabinoids…is anyone keeping track of how many are coming out of the pipeline? The Poison Review definitely is with this review of a paper on MAB-CHMINACA, a high-affinity synthetic cannabinoid [JAR]
• More on the synthetic cannabinoid discussion, ForensicToxGuy contributes his take on MAB-CHIMINACA with a mind-blowing (no pun intended) discussion on the forensic chemistry of these substances…there’s even a GoT reference included [JAR]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Is two point compression scanning really good enough for DVT? The guys at the Ultrasound podcast take us through some recent controversy about this. [SO]
• Josh Farkas discusses cognitive approaches to improve shock diagnosis with ultrasound with
  a blog post and embedded article. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Emergency Medicine Ireland offers a quick review of ITP in Tasty Morsel 048. [AS]
• Should kids be cooled to 33 degrees C or kept normothermic after ROSC? Resus.me reviews the recent NEJM article. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• Dr Lederer’s continues her electrolyte-focused, case-centered lecture-and-slides, this week on Calcium Homeostatis. [ML]

The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim

• EMDocs.net continues its series on the EM Mindset with Reuben Strayer,discussing the 8 responsibilities of the EM doc (public health, resource stewardship, customer service, managing ED flow, disposition and level of care, symptom relief, identification of dangerous conditions and resuscitation). [AS]
• The Teaching Course Podcast is now live and features a number of talks including Rob Rogers on the importance of branding yourself in medicine. [AS]
• Boring EM discusses how learners, teachers and producers of FOAM can improve the content and quality. [AS]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

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