LITFL Review 193
Welcome to the 193rd 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
See FOAM4GP’s Simplify the Message on how to explain a medical condition or treatment to a patient using something in their lives they can relate to. Or as Orson Scott Card puts it, “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” [ML]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- TXA in mucosal bleeding, massive hydroceles, night shifts and more on ERCast when Orman welcomes on Haney Mallemat. [AS]
- The Annals of Emergency Medicine audio summary for August is up. (iTunes, Direct) [MG]
- More great stuff from Core EM, this time including some pearls of chest pain assessment. [SL]
- A great summary from Andy Neil on the recently published draft NICE trauma guidelines. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Excellent review of succinycholine versus rocuronium for RSI in the ED from HEFT EM Cast. [AS]
- REBEL EM discusses how to provide sedation and analgesia after intubating a pregnant patient. [AS]
- Scott talks to Tom Bleck and discusses everything Status Epilepticus on the EMCrit podcast. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- A two part series on the importance of the respiratory rate from St. Emlyn’s – Part 1 + Part 2. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Latest in the Louisville Lecture series on pharmacogenetics. Kristen Reynolds takes a look at adverse drug reactions occurring secondary to identifiable genetic risk factors: the evidence supporting genetic testing, common mutations (CYP phenotypes), and how to decide whom to test. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Lucky for us, still available online: an 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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#FOAMed Updates
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.