LITFL Review 219
Welcome to the 219th 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
Is enhanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) a step too far? Listen to this great debate between two heavyweights from SMACC Chicago. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Anna Pickens puts together a great 5 minute video on the anatomy of the slit lamp. [SR]
- Brilliant discussion of recent EBM and how to make decisions regarding further management when suspecting an SAH following a negative CT head from REBEL Cast. [SL]
- Bryan Hayes and the ALiEMU Team have released their 5th module on procedural sedation and Analgesia in the ED. [SR]
- Joslyn Joseph does an amazing job debunking some myths about long backboards in the prehospital setting. [SR]
- Awesome video from Scancrit on the lateral trauma position. Audio in Norwegian but the technique is clear in the video! [CC]
- Should peripheral IVs be secured with cyanoacrylate? St. Emlyn’s dissects a recent article on the topic. [AS]
- Is it VT or not? Check out this wide complex tachycardia case over at the EMS 12-Lead blog. [MG]
- The latest episode of PHEMcast discusses prehospital amputation. [MG]
- The February edition of the Annals of Emergency Medicine Audio Summary is out! [MG]
- Ken Milne critically appraises the REVERT trial for stable SVT. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Minh Le Cong Interviews lead author John Sakles about his two new studies on apneic oxygenation for emergency intubations. [SR]
- Rory Spiegel reflects on the usefulness of the “Trauma Pan-Scan” in all trauma patients. [SR]
- Jon-Emile Kenny explains some of the mystery behind driving pressure and stress index, in 1000 words, no less. [SO]
- Portsmouth ICU have updated a significant number of the UK hospital’s Portsmouth guidelines and procedures, with standout ones being End of Life Care, and the management of the unconscious cervical spine. [SO]
- Telemedicine in ICM as the future? James Day and Segun Olusanya talk to Tamas Szakmany, an Intensivist in Wales, on this- and more. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- The Geriatric Emergency Medicine Podcast released their part 3 episode on Calcium Channel Blockers and Digoxin. [SR]
- Bupropion poisoning and another reason to love ECMO? A review of two cases from The poisons review. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- What’s the state of prehospital ultrasound? Listen to a great podcast discussion on The Howl, the official podcast of the EMS Wolfpack. [ML]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Anton Helman interviews Dr. Amy Drendel about Pediatric Procedural Sedation. This episode is packed full of useful pearls. [SR]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- Injectable Orange shares a host of resources for evidence based critical care practice. [AS]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Richard Carden writes an amazing post on our cognitive ability to deal with tasks(Our Bandwidth) in the ED. [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.