LITFL Review 222
Welcome to the 222nd 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
Josh Farkas explains his top 10 issues/problems with the new Sepsis-3 definitions. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- First 10 EM drops their articles of the month as February comes to a close. [AS]
- Cameron Berg discusses another way to evaluate low risk chest pain using TIMI [SR]
- Ryan Radecki reviews a recent publication on using trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in MRSA prevalent areas for treatment of abscesses. NNT = 14. [SR]
- Janos Baombe reviews a recent meta-analysis on ketofol vs propofol for procedural sedation. [SR]
- Mark Wilson carefully deconstructs level of consciousness assessment, goodbye GCS. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Blair Bigham puts together a nice set of infographics of the 2015 ECC/CPR Updates that all paramedics need to know. [SR]
- Justin Morgenstern walks us through his A, B, C approach to managing laryngospasm. [SR]
- Justin Morgenstern also asks is SIRS really that bad? [SR]
- Jonathan puts us to sleep with an excellent podcast episode, helpful tips for sleep promotion in ICU. [JS]
- A timely reminder from the Bottom Line that Night Shifts Decrease Cognitive Performance in ICU doctors. Be careful everyone… [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Our bros at the Ultrasound Podcast show us how to do peri-arrest Trans-oesophageal echo with this lovely live demo. [SO]
- Here’s another great 5 minute sono vid on quantifying pleural effusions. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- The curious incident of the barking cough in the night, a superb blog from Nikki Abela on croup. [SL]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- A list of lessons accrued over ten years of nursing. Happy anniversary Jess Morton–a must read. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- This week, Louiville Lectures’ Russ Farmer creatively uses MS Paint to illustratecolon cancer. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Ben Azan and the ALiEM Team post part 3 of their How I Podcast Smarter Series. This is an all star cast of podcasters with some very good advice. [SR]
- Simon Carley reminds us that its not talent or hours and hours of practice, but deliberate practice that makes one great. [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.