LITFL Review 215
Welcome to the 215th 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
Ashley Shreves talks about the Semantics of End of Life Discussions. [SR]
In the UK, junior doctors (equivalent of interns/residents) have just staged a walkout due to unfair working conditions. Dr Helgi (@traumagasdoc) sums up some of the issues for anaesthetist/critical care trainees in this blog post. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Fantastic podcast on UK Trauma Units from the St Emlyns Team and Tim Coates. [SL]
- Cliff Reid discusses prehospital dogma focusing on our resuscitation approach to crush injuries. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Another great SMACC podcast as Manoj Saxena discusses temperature control in TBI. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Think you know it all about Paracetamol (acetaminophen) poisoning? I bet everyone learns something from this GEMcast on this common poisoning in the old patient. [CC]
- Rejoice! Epinephrine labeling is finally getting fixed. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Patient stepped on glass with a lac and foreign body? Consider the posterior tibial nerve block for excellent anesthesia as posted on the 5min sono web site. [AS]
- Here’s a great video from the ESICM discussing recent advances in POCUS in the ICU. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Should pediatric surgeons be caring for pediatric trauma patients? Ross Fisher, a pediatric surgeon, argues no in this guest post at St. Emlyn’s. [AS]
- Brilliant simple + cheap trainer for IO placement in kids from Don’t Forget the Bubbles. [AS]
- Sean Fox tells us we may not need to admit all children with intussusception after successfully reduced. [SR]
- Damian Rowland reminds us that our demeanour when approaching children is incredibly important in this post on his Rolobot rambles blog. [SO]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- A podcast crash course in trauma and hypovolemic shock for emergency nurses. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- In addition to the (usually) weekly medical grand rounds posted on the University of Louisville web site, there are also three series of TED talks on the business and leadership of medicine. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Cognitive debiasing, situational awareness and preferred error: decision-making analysis in an enthralling EMCases podcast. [JS]
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.