LITFL Review 182
Welcome to the 182nd 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
Essentials of Emergency Medicine is offering a US resident scholarship in partnership with ALiEM and EMCrit for the October Essentials course in Las Vegas. Check it out and apply now! [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Great pearl from the University of Maryland on the significance of discordant U waves in relation to cardiac ischemia. [AS]
- Rich Carden reminds us of an often-neglected area of EM with this great blog on St Emlyns; Are we doing all we can for Mental Health? [SL]
- Are hyperacute T-waves diagnostic of infarction in the setting of a paced rhythm? Find out at Dr Smith’s ECG Blog. [MG]
- The May edition of the Annals of Emergency Medicine audio summary is now available! [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- The Bottom Line review the STOPAH trial comparing prednisolone or pentoxifylline for alcoholic hepatitis. [SO]
- Here’s an interesting post by Josh Farkas on apnoeic ventilation using pressure limited ventilation. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- The Maryland Critical Care Project has a great talk on toxic haemoglobinopathies,specifically carbon monoxide and methaemoglobinaemia. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Excellent vodcast from Matt, Mike and Mike on POCUS for DVT diagnosis with step by step demonstration (feat. Jacob Avila). [AS]
- Even inexperienced trainees can rapidly learn to assess patients for the presence of B-lines on POCUS according the this weeks SGEM podcast. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- The Centre of Evidence-based medicine has put up a wonderful set of video lectures debating the value of evidence-based medicine. All come from the recent “Evidence Live” event, and are definitely worth a listen. [SO]
- Everything you ever wanted to know about urinary tract infections, this week’s Louisville Lecture. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- The EM Mindset series from EMDocs.net continues with Andy Sloas discussing the role of the Emergentologist. [AS]
- Excellent basic overview from BoringEM of a critical statistical concept in decision making: the Likelihood Ratio. [AS]
- Talking about the elephant in the room, Howard Ovens discusses the ‘Free’ in FOAMed and investigates the idea of funding FOAMed to achieve sustainability. [SL]
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)
Reference Sources and Reading List
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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.