LITFL Review 210
Welcome to the 210th 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
Excellent interview by Rob Orman of Weingart discussing the management of extravasation of peripheral vasopressors from Essentials of EM. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- We all know the dangers of hypoxia but how clued up are you on the issues surrounding hyperoxia? PHEMCAST had a great run through the topic. [SL]
- Free lecture this week from Billy Mallon on alcohol’s effect on the brain, courtesy of Essentials of EM. [AS]
- The Skeptics Guide welcomes guest skeptic Ryan Radecki to review the ins and outs of the recent NEJM paper on Idarucizumab for dabigitran reversal. [AS]
- Do prehospital ECGs make a difference? Find out about the latest research on the PEC Podcast. [MG]
- What’s new with the treatment of SVT? Broome Docs details the best care for this common presentation in 2015. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Justin Morgenstern walks us through the step by step management of the unstable atrial fibrillation patient. Don’t be scared to cardiovert these patients [SR]
- Josh Farkas does some mythbusting when it comes to coagulopathy management in the bleeding cirrhotic patient. [SR]
- Christmas has come early with a bag full of posts from ICS State of the Art Meeting with topics covering everything from ARDS to end-of-life, and critical care myopathy and more. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- 5 Minute Sono reviews the sciatic poplitieal nerve block – how to do it, where it helps and some tips and tricks. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Think twice before you blow: the choking hazard of the rubber glove balloon. [JS]
- Ever wondered what the real hype was surrounding straight blades in kids airways? This superb post from careflight collective challenges this dogma. [SL]
- In a brilliant screencast with stunning slides, Andrew Tagg takes the pain out of assessing pain in children. [JS]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- Wayne Varndell discusses the importance of screening for domestic violence in the ED. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Super detailed Louisville Lecture from Dr. Adam Rojan covering the hypercoagulability associated with cancer. [JS]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Jeremy Faust and Lauren Westafer walk us through the ABCs of positive and negative likelihood ratios. [SR]
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.