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LITFL Review 202

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Welcome to the 202nd 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

Nick Cummins Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week

More superb ophthalmology FOAMed from Andy Neill on eye injuries, with a screencast of the talk he gave at Eusem 2015. [SL] A seriously excellent lecture, delivered with a wonderful brogue [ML]



The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

  • REBEL EM reviews the recently published SPLIT trial on 0.9% saline vs. Plasma-Lyte. [AS]
  • Episode 17 of the CORE EM podcast has a great rundown of asthma and COPDmanagement in the ED. [MG]
  • Have you heard of the NEXUS criteria for chest CT in blunt trauma? Read all about it an Academic Life in Emergency Medicine. [MG]
  • ALiEM also posted part 2 of their AIR series on CHF, PVD, and more! [MG]
  • The new European Resuscitation Council Guidelines are out with an algorithm for management of Traumatic Cardiac Arrest, have a listen to the podcast on this from HEFT EMCAST summarising this. [CC]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology


The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound


The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

  • An excellent review of an article discussing the use of US in bronchiolitis on Broome Docs via the PEMLit Blog. [AS]
  • Natalie May discusses her top peds papers of the year on St. Emlyn’s. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine


The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim


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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.

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