LITFL Review 204
Welcome to the 204th 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
Want to be involved in shaping Emergency Medicine research? Find out about the fantastic James Lind Alliance and it’s work with RCEM and how you can get involved in identifying the priorities for further research at St Emlyns. [SL]
Sharing some of the great content from ACEP 15, FOAMcast impressively produced summary podcasts for all 3 days, check them out here. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Ken Milne + The Swami + rapidly beating hearts = FOAMY goodness. These two discuss a recent paper on Diltiazem vs metoprolol for AF with RVR and some nerdy EBM talk on RCTs. [CC]
- A useful summary of influenza and paediatric FB aspiration from CORE EM. [SL]
- Intranasal midazolam for kids in status: how strong is the evidence? Find out at EMJClub. [MG]
- Everyday EBM has a great review on tracheostomy basics and complications. [MG]
- Academic Life In Emergency Medicine has another AIR post, rounding up the best recent FOAMed on environmental emergencies. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- REBEL EM offers an excellent critique of the recent systematic review and meta-analysis of mechanical CPR devices in cardiac arrest. [AS]
- REBEL EM reviews the argument for VSE therapy in in-hospital-cardiac arrest along with and explanation of the potential physiologic rationale. [AS]
- In her SMACC talk, Ashley Shrieves tries to sort out “What is a Good Death”? [MG]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- The Ultrasound of the week site discusses lung US assessment for pneumothorax and a potential cause of misdiagnosis. [AS]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Rolobotrambles this week discusses potential uses of technology to aid in patient safety practices within a consultation, using the analogy of the TMO in rugby…..food for thought. [CC]
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)
Reference Sources and Reading List
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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.