LITFL Review 199
Welcome to the 199th 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
PHEMCAST, Prehospital Emergency Medicine Podcast, is here! Providing the latest and greatest FOAMed from PHEM in the UK. Episode one kicks off with a superb line up on laryngeal mask airway (LMA), including PALM, LMA in cardiac arrest and much more. Have a listen and check out the website, and online podcast for those not looking to download the free podcast from iTunes. Great work from Nutbeam and Bosanko! [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- More on natiuretic peptides, likelihood ratios and Bayseian thinking from Rory Spiegel. [AS]
- Think you understand why patients with PE are hypoxic? A really interesting blog from Andy Neill looks at the evidence out there to explain it. [SL]
- Toxic Alcohol poisoning is a difficult diagnosis, but should be a bit easier after reading this great post from emDocs. [MG]
- BoringEM covers the EKG findings associated with syncopeyou can’t miss. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- REBEL EM reviews the evidence (actually lack thereof) for time to antibiotics in sepsis. [AS]
- Are catheter directed lytics the “magic bullet” for submassive PE treatment? REBEL EM discusses a recent article. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- The Core EM podcast features Mike Stone discussing ultrasound guided nerve blocks. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Don’t Forget the Bubbles has an excellent review of Measles this week. [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.