LITFL Review 209

Welcome to the 209th 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

The St Emlyns podcast speak to Youri Yordanov in this moving account of managing the mass casualty situation in the recent and tragic events in Paris. There’s lots in here for us all to ponder and reflect on with regards to our setup and ability to deal with such a circumstance.  Most of all, we have the opportunity here to listen, respect and admire the superb care given.[SL]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Rob Orman and Reuben Strayer discuss the Ketamine Brain Continuum. Try to avoid recreational and partially dissociated doses; the only thing worse than a crazy agitated patient is a crazy agitated patient now tripping on Ketamine. [SR]
• EM Lit of Note discusses the slow demise of the role of antibiotics in the treatment of diverticulitis. [AS]
• Is the Art of the Cardiac Physical Exam Lost?  Looks like we have a new #FOAMed resource that begs to differ. [SR]
• Junior doctor podcast, On the Wards, probes the management of bowel obstruction, interviewing general surgeon Dr Rewa Keegan. [JS]
• What’s the evidence to support the use of a regional block for hip fracture?  The SGEM H.O.P. takes us through this recent systematic review. [CC]
• Emergency Medicine Cases has another great episode, this time about the emergency management of Paediatric Seizures. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Scott Weingart helps break down assessment of fluid responsiveness in the critically ill. Two simple questions to ask yourself: 1) Can the RV take it and 2) Can the LV use it? [SR]
• Psychologist Dorothy Wade discusses PTSD in Critical Care on Critical Care Practitioner Podcast. [JS]
• Dr. Smith reminds us why making a differential diagnosis is important in chest pain. Not All  T wave inversions and chest pain = ACS. [SR]
• Oxygen is bad for patients with COPD exacerbations, right? REBEL EM delves into the dogmas, myths and truths. [AS]
• Joe Bellezzo talks all things ED ECMO and  cutting edge resuscitation in a community ED. [SR]
• Maryland CC project features a fantastic look at coma and brain death. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• A shockingly good podcast from Tim at PEM Playbook, electrical injuries in children [JS]

The Best of #FOANed Nursing

• Important evidence round-up of best practice in infection control with central venous catheters [JS]

The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim

• Non-inferiority is not the same as equivalence, and many more pearls on non-inferiority trials from Andy Neill. [AS]
• Natalie May teaches us how to enjoy ourselves to help make us better learners and teachers. [SR]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

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