LITFL Review 191
Welcome to the 191st 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
St Emlyns take #FOAMed to another superb level with their introductory course for new starters in Emergency Medicine. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- FOAMCast reviews the use of vasopressors delving into the mechanisms of the different agents and the use of peripheral administration. [AS]
- Cool infographics from Boring EM discussing VTE and the new oral anticoagulants (NOACs). [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- The Emergency Trauma Management blog has some great tips on dealing with epistaxis in the ED. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Respect the right ventricle or you’ll have Matt, Mike and guest podcaster Haney Mallemat to deal with. [AS]
- Great review of ultrasound guided femoral nerve blocks from emDocs.net. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- REBEL EM discusses tips on managing kids with fever focusing on clinical assessment and observation. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Latest in the Louisville Lecture series: Dr. Brown discusses Complications of MIs. [ML]
- The Bottom Line tackles the question of 7-day working and mortality effects with another fantastic review of a paper on weekend hospitalisation and additional risk of death. [SL]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Excellent guide and resource on getting started on twitter from Injectible Orange. [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.