LITFL Review 202
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
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
- Learn all about salicylate toxicity this week over at emDocs. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- UOTW reviews great pearls and pitfalls in diagnosing ectopic pregnancy. [AS]
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
- Take a look at University of Louisville Lecture Series’s Ocular Manifestions of Systemic Disease [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- The ICE Net Blog discusses clinical reasoning and the fallacy of cognitive debiasing. [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.