LITFL Review 187
Welcome to the 187th 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
Incredible talk on vulnerability from SMACC Chicago given by Tim Leeuwenburg. This is a must watch for any physician. [AS]
Did you miss SMACC Chicago? Great podcasts released by St. Emlyn’s and FOAMCast highlighting pearls from the workshops and lectures.[AS]
Anyone lucky enough to have met John Hinds or hear him speak will have been inspired to provide exceptional Prehospital/EM/ITU care. Plus, he was a thoroughly nice man. Tragically he died this week. John was driven to establish a Northern Ireland HEMS service; In memory of John please sign this petition on the PHARM to help drive John’s goal forward. [SL]
In memory of John Hinds, this is a great time to revisit some of his best talks: Cases from the Races and the great Cricoid debate (both from SMACC Gold), and his presence on the RAGE podcast. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- The “walk test” for PE garnered interest last week on social media. EM Lit of Note discusses why we aren’t going to be using it anytime soon. [AS]
- Weingart discusses all things procedural sedation with Jim Miner; a true guru in the field. [AS]
- The ECG Case of the Week is Free Open Access Medical Education this week! Check out Amal’s discussion of killer ECGs that the computer will miss. [AS]
- Part 3 of Any Neill’s review of Eye Anatomy. Check out parts 1 and 2 if you haven’t already. [AS]
- The final ACEP clinical policy on tPA in stroke was released and EM Lit of Note comments that while there are improvements from the prior iteration, there are serious problems as well. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- EM Lit of Note discusses the impact of CPR prior to EMS arrival and the impact of a lay person rescuer activation system. [AS]
- Check out a resuscitation update: Predictors of progression to shock featuring Mike Winters + Amal Mattu. [AS]
- The University of Louiville’s Internal Medicine lecture series offers Shock and Hemodynamics in the CCU with Dr. Brown .Good time of year to review the basics of cardiogenic shock..
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Zack, Joe and Scott are joined on the ED ECMO podcast by Steve Aks and Leon Gussow to discuss the role of ECMO in the management of the crashing tox patient. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- The Ultrasound Podcast welcomes Casey Parker from broomedocs.com to discuss ultrasound in late pregnancy. [AS]
- Ultrasound of the week no. 51 is a useful reminder of how echo can help to supplement the ECG/EKG in cases of suspected ischaemia. [SO]
- Designed for newbie internists not familiar/comfortable with ultrasound technology, but freely available to everyone: Ultrasound Physics with Dr. Nunleydiscusses the basic principles, physics, and concepts behind ultrasound to establish a foundation for moving forward with additional training. Part of the University of Louiville Internal Medicine lecture series. [ML]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Andy Sloas and Rob Orman discuss a blog post from EM Lit of Note on Pediatric C-spine injuries and delve into how we should evaluate pediatric trauma patients for significant C-spine injuries. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- ERCast discusses the management of chronic pain in a two part series here and here. [AS]
- While the rest of us were on vacation, the University of Louville’s Internal Medicine lecture series continued on. Catching up on the goodies: Analyzing the Accuracy of Cardiac Risk Calculators with Dr. Defilippis (see too his Annals of Internal Medicine article on the same topic, published in February 2015); and Spondyloarthropathies Part Two with Dr. Moore. See lectures under Critical Care and Ultrasound, above. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- EM: RAP has launched a new site and with it, has released a ton of free content. Check it out here. [AS]
- The EM Mindset from emDocs.net featuring Pik Mukherji. [AS]
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.