LITFL Review 192
Welcome to the 192nd 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
An excellent review from St. Emlyn’s of the NICE guidelines in major trauma. Far more progressive than ATLS. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Neil Long posts a fantastic set of videos on orthopedic splinting on LITFL. [AS]
- Excellent discussion on how to use the EKG when caring for patients with epigastric pain from Stephen Smith. [AS]
- The ALiEM team released a new PV card this week on Palliative Care Screening in the Emergency Department. [MG]
- Are you going to be leading your resus team and greeting the prehospital team? Think about how you receive and use handover. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Bryan Hayes discusses the (dis)utility of acetaminophen levels less than 4 hoursafter ingestion on ALiEM. [AS]
- The Poisons Review team urge us to consider paracetamol (acetaminophen)toxicity in the context of metabolic acidosis and coma! [CC]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Damian Roland shares his thoughts about the use of patient videos to help us learn. After all, history taking involves much more than just the words that come out the patient’s mouth, [TRD]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Latest in the Louisville Lecture series on thyroid disease [ML]
- Ever wondered why we order CRP and ESR and what the results really mean for our patients? This superb review from foam4GP will tell you what you want to know. [SL]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- In case you missed it last week: Excellent guide and resource on getting started on twitter from Injectable 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)
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.