LITFL Review 212

Welcome to the 212th 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

Incredible talk from SMACC Chicago on Performance Psychology for Resuscitationists from Jason Brooks. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Peripheral vertigo and no meclizine? Ryan Radecki tells us not to worry because promethazine is probably better at controlling symptoms. [SR]
• Do you know the significance of a new T wave inversion in lead aVL? Learn from the EKG master himself, Amal Mattu from his talk at Essentials of EM. [AS]
• For a patient with a potential C-spine injury, you’d be mad not to use a collar—or would you? Simon Laing and Erika Panaro talk us through the pros and cons of spinal immobilisation with a recap of some useful EBM and decision rules for imaging. [CC]
• Justin Morgenstern discusses how to manage the palliative ED patient with dyspnea. [SR]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Josh Farkas delves into the neurocritical care of the comatose patient with meningitis. [AS]
• Steve Smith uses the Modified Sgarbossa Criteria in  a case of chest pain and new LBBB. [SR]
• Rory Spiegel states maybe we shouldn’t be focusing on continuous vs interrupted CPR, but instead on the way we provide ventilations in OHCA. [SR]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• Anna Pickens reviews TCA Toxicity and its treatment. Bicarb, Bicarb, Bicarb!!! [SR]
• The Poison Review highlights an article covering some carbon monoxide dogmalysis. [AS]

The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim

• Mike Mallin gives a thoughtful talk describing his stress response to a challenging airway, then generalizes psychological and cognitive stress responses for all physicians in all patient care situations. A valuable half-hour vodcast from EMCrit. [SR]
• A new series from the Intensive Care Network on basic sciences, kicking off with a topic relevant to all of us: Oxygen! A great resource for those preparing for basic science exams or even those of us looking for a valuable recap. [SL]
• Charlotte Wills writes a personal reflection on the EM Mindset. Its as simple as being a meteorologist. [SR]
• Sean Fox gives his perspectives on delivering bad news to patients and families. [SR]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

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