LITFL Review 223
Welcome to the 223rd 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
In these times of burnout, strikes, and dissatisfaction, it’s incredibly important to remember the greatness that we are part of and can share in. Simon Carley blogs on this, urging us towards self-actualisation and transcendence. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- In celebration of their birthday, First 10 in EM reviews their top articles of the last year. [AS]
- Should we use TMP-SMX in the treatment of abscesses? Salim Rezaie delves into the topic with expert commentary from Gillian Schmitz. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Scott Weingart interviews lead author Mervyn Synger on Sepsis 3.0 definitions [SR]
- Scott Weingart also interviews co-author Cliff Deutschman on Sepsis 3.0definitions [SR]
- Mike Winters gives an amazing CPR talk at SMACC Chicago on Don’t Forget A&B [SR]
- PulmCCM reviews a recent publicationn on the physiologically difficult airwaystressing how to address hypoxemia and hypotension. [AS]
- The Bottom Line have a great review on ultrasound vs bronchoscopy for percutaneous tracheostomy. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Brian Galovic and Jimmy Fair walk us through the basics of transesophageal echocardiography in TEE part 1 and TEE part 2. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Neonatal rashes? It’s not all Erythem Toxicum…..rashes not to ignore in the neonate. Great post from DFTB! [CC]. [SL]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Prepping a talk with data slides? Don’t make an over complicated slide even worse….avoid the ugly red box! More wisdom from Ross Fisher over on his Prezentation skills blogspot. [CC]
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)
Reference Sources and Reading List
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#FOAMed Updates
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.