LITFL Review 200
Welcome to the 200th 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
Rick Body and the organising crew in Manchester put on a superb RCEM conference in Manchester this week. Check out what happened in podcasts covering all of the action and supporting blogs at St.Emlyns. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- ED Discharge strategies from a new attending featured on emDocs.net. [AS]
- Ken Milne addresses ED trauma care dogma: Is a CXR post-chest tube insertion really going to change your management? [CC]
- There is an absence of evidence that c-collars prevent further spinal damage. EM Lit of Note reviews a recent paper and calls for the retirement of routine spinal immobilization. [AS]
- Can you quickly diagnose isolated posterior MI? Check out emDocs for a great refresher. [MG]
- Emergency Medicine Cases has an excellent review of End of Life Care in EM. [MG]
- ALiEMU has a new CAPSULES module on pharmacology of emergency airway management. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- EM Nerd discusses issues with the recent NEJM randomized study that looked into optimal central line location, and examines what (if any) data we can take away from this study to guide practice. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- What do you know about the N-bomb? The team over at The Poisons Review discuss these blotting paper hallucinogens [CC]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Jacob Avila is featured on the Ultrasound Podcast discussing the use of US in looking for the consensual light reflex. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Should we change the standard diagnostic strategy for pneumonia in kids from CXR to US? Casey Parker discusses a recent article and argues for just that change. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- University of Louisville Lecture Series presents a video lecture, Grand Rounds-style, on Islet Cell Autotransplantation for chronic pancreatitis. [ML]
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.