LITFL Review 188
Welcome to the 188th 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
Unbelievable talk from John Hinds at SMACC US – Crack the Chest. Get Crucified. If you’re unclear why it is that the FOAM world was so saddened at John’s loss, this will quickly jog your memory. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- The SGEM HOP (Hot Off the Press) features Jeff Kline and Chris Carpenter discussing outpatient management of pulmonary embolism with rivaroxaban. [AS]
- How do we manage grief in the ED? Liz Crowe and Iain Beardsell discuss how grief affects us as providers and people. [AS]
- Should we pursue medical management of acute appendicitis and have the studies been framing the question and the data correctly? Rory Spiegel discusses on EM Nerd this week. [AS]
- What’s the best evidence for administering oxygen to COPD patients? Emergency medicine blog outlines the goldilocks principle. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Double Punch Defibrillation for refractory VF? A thought provoking discussion on ScanCrit. [CC]
- EMCrit does a deep dive on the use of High-Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) in hypoxic respiratory failure. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- The Poison Review discusses updated recommendations for hemodialysis in salicylate overdose. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Tessa Davis reviews an article on the consequences of missed diagnosis of meningitis in the ‘hot tot’ group, and discusses the effect of those misses on mortality [CC]
- EM Cases welcomes Samina Ali and Anthony Crocco on to discuss pediatric pain management. [AS]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- If you haven’t checked it out already, make sure to go over to Critical Care Horizons and review the first four articles published in this completely Free Open Access journal. [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)
Reference Sources and Reading List
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