LITFL Review 207

Welcome to the 207th 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

Brilliant talk by Roger Harris from SMACCUS weaves the pillars of medical ethics with space-time continuum theorem to explore When to Stop Resuscitation. [JS]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• EMUpdates features an excellent talk from Reuben Strayer on how to use and how not to use opioids. [AS]
• Do you use a checklist for RSI in your ED? The team over at HEFTEMcast discuss the evidence and the potential benefits. [CC]
• RAGE podcast is back with the late and great John Hinds defending direct laryngoscopy over video laryngoscopy in the field[CC]
• Vibha Gupta reviews intravascular complications of CVC insertion by site on Core EM. [SR]
• Courtney Casella reviews the evidence for Age-Adjusted D-Dimer testing on EM Docs. [SR]
• This week’s FOAMcast is all about lacerations. [MG]
• Taming the SRU has another great bread and butter feature, this time on dizziness. [MG]
• This week’s SGEM reviews the evidence for mechanical CPR. Don’t forget to check the recent REBELCast on the same topic. [MG]
• A great blog from emDocs on ED handovers; the problems and what we can do to improve. [SL]
• Ken Milne and Rory Spiegel discuss why the most recent meta-analysis on endovascular treatment for ischemic stroke doesn’t bring us any closer to a definitive answer despite methodological rigor. [SR]
• Justin Morgenstern at First 10 in EM discusses management of status epilepticus in the emergency department…don’t forget to ask about the patient’s glucose 1st. [SR]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Duncan Chamber reviews what happens to patients 80 years and older admitted to the ICU for >24hrs on The Bottom Line. [SR]
• A twofer from Josh Farkas at PulmCrit: (1) why the newest meta-analysis of macrolides still doesn’t show azithromycin increases mortality, and (2) investigation bias in trials where industry chooses to sponsor clinical trials. [SR]
• Scott Weingart talks to Jean-Francois Lanctot on EMCrit about Echo Guided Life Support (EGLS) as a way to assess fluid status in septic patients. [SR]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Don’t Forget the Bubbles has a nice succinct overview of the recent ILCOR pediatric cardiac arrest recommendations. [AS]

The Best of #FOANed Nursing

• Evidently Cochrane Blog has launched a new collection, Evidence for Everyday Nursing. In this post we are encouraged to consider ditching the routine peripheral IV catheter change. Each post has it’s own Blogshot knowledge translation infographic. [JS]

The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim

• ICE Net features a great post by Daniel Cabrera on the role of empathy in medical education. [AS]
• The Intensive Care Network releases a fantastic talk by Ken Milne from SMACC US on Making Knowledge Translation Happen: Is Social Media the Answer? [SR]
• More great stuff on education out of The Teaching Course and St. Emlyn’s. How to be a better learner is a must read for all providers. [AS]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

• #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMres
• #FOAMped – #FOAMtox – #FOAMus
• #FOAMim – #FOANed