LITFL Review 220
Welcome to the 220th 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 world is buzzing about Zika Virus. Found out what you need to know this week from emDocs. [MG]
Interesting perspective on the Zika virus in this week’s NEJM, describing the “pandemic expansion of multiple, heretofore relatively unimportant arboviruses previously restricted to remote ecologic niches.” [ML]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Interesting trick of the trade from ALiEM on making a TXA paste from tablets for topical application. [AS]
- The ALiEM Chief Resident Incubator team has put together a MUST READ list of EM Journal Articles. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Jamie Santistevan reviews Hyperacute T-Waves, deWinter’s T-Waves, and Hyperkalemic T-Waves. [SR]
- Richard Carden goes over the highlights from the NICE 2016 Major Trauma Guidelines. [SR]
- Peter Brindley explores the ethics, efficacy and semantics of resuscitation: What’s the Point? [JS]
- Unavoidable pressure ulcers in the critically ill patient requiring vasopressors? [JS]
- Rob Orman and Ryan Radecki discuss which chest pain patients can go home, Caveats to the HEART Score, and Delta Troponin Testing. [SR]
- Here’s a great piece on ventilatory management in the morbidly obese from Jon-Emile Kenny at Pulmccm. [SO]
- The Bottom Line review the DIABOLO study looking at acetazolamide use in mechanically ventilated COPD patients this week. Great work as usual! [SO]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Jeremy Faust and Lauren Westafer review some core content of toxic alcohols. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- 5 Minute sono covers the ins and outs of the supraclavicular nerve block. [AS]
- Matt and Mike discuss the use of gastric ultrasound to prevent aspiration prior to intubation [SR]
- A brilliant summary on the use of ultrasound to confirm endotracheal tube placement. [SO]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- Does serum lactate equal badness? A simple summary for the emergency and critical care nurse. [JS]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Teaching EBM so it doesn’t suck from Ken Milne (@theSGEM) via The Teaching Course. [AS]
- Shahbaz Syed discusses the biases in anecdotal evidence and the potential harms. [SR
- Phil Hyde’s SMACC talk, an inspirational call to arms to ditch the dummies for team simulation for Pediatric Critical Care. [JS]
- The ALiEM Chief Resident Incubator published an excellent list of must read journal articles in EM for junior residents, senior residents and a list on debateable areas in EM. [AS]
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.