LITFL Review 196

Welcome to the 196th 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

The Best Case Ever series features Rich Levitan this week discussing the benefits of slowing down how we think, move and perform in order to perform like an expert. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Young people can have MIs too. Think STEMI if there are any reciprocal changes and remember that Kawasaki’s disease markedly increases risk of early MI. [AS]
• Taming the SRU has a comprehensive summary of STEMI and STEMI equivalents. [MG]
• The Bottom Line offers a critical review of an NEJM article looking at Idarucizimab for dabigitran reversal. [AS]
• What’s the best way to treat calf clots? ERCast has a deep dive into the topic. [AS]
• Great stuff from Rich Carden at St Emlyns on Lactate, clearing up some thoughts after the SMACC Sepsis panel discussion. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Check out the new Capsule series from ALiEMU module on vsaopressors and inotropes. [AS]
• Great tips from University of Maryland on paracentesis in hypotensive ESLDpatients. [AS]
• INTENSIVE is now posting weekly CICM Part 2 Exam practice questions from The Alfred ICU exam preparation programme, starting with 02092015 and questions on frailty, hypothermia and drowning and multi-organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). Links to the Critical Care Compendium are provided for further reading.  [CN]
• Peter Viccellio discusses the why, when and how of using epinephrine in the Emergency Department on the All NYC EM Podcast. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• ALiEM give a great overview of best management of migraines in kids. [TRD]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• As the folks at Louisville Lectures take a summer break, this is a good time to review the specialty list of Grand Rounds-type lectures online posted over the past year.[ML]

The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim

• REBEL EM discusses the Columbo Tactic in bedside education. [AS]
• The LITFL team delivers again with the Toxicology Library. Check it all out here. [AS]
• The SGEM carry on their superb work decreasing the knowledge-translation time. If you’ve got an article you want to hear them review then submit it here, it’s almost too easy! [SL]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

• #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMres
• #FOAMped – #FOAMtox – #FOAMus
• #FOAMim – #FOANed