LITFL Review 228
Welcome to the 228th 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
Another awesome post on Dr Smith’s ECG blog. A must for anyone who sees patients with chest pain. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- An awesome review from Ken Milne and our own Salim Rezaie talking nerdy about a recent paper on HEART score and low risk chest pain in the ED. [CC]
- Jon-Emile Kenny discusses the use of corticosteroids in community acquired pneumonia in this excellent post. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Complimentary posts with differing perspectives from The Elective Rotation Podcast and PulmCrit on using dexmedetomidine to aid liberation of the agitated patient from the ventilator. [JS]
- Fareen Zaver and the ALiEM Team post their Approved Instructional Series Post on Critical Care Part 1. [SR]
- The Bottom Line review a trial looking at different feeding strategies in adults with refeeding syndrome. [SO]
- What would Gattinoni do? Jon-Emile Kenny asks that pertinent question as he summarises the physiology of ARDS in 1000 words. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- A deep dive talk into the use of Ketamine in the prehospital arena from Per Bredmose, with relevance to in hospital practice. [SL]
- More airway goodness from SMACC as Karel Habig leads a panel of experts on the management of a difficult airway in a rural emergency department. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Here’s a useful review on salicylate poisoning and urine alkalinization from those lovely New Yorkers at Sinai EM. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Ditch the X-Ray for confirming CVL placement using RASS (rapid atrial swirl sign) as discussed by Avila, Dawson and Mallin. [AS]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- Nurse educator Joanne deftly describes and demystifies the 12-Lead ECG. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- The Louisville Lecture series has added a talk on Epilepsy for the Internist. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- We’ve all heard the refrain “you can’t trust podcasts (or blog post, etc).” Weingart discusses his thoughts on this, pointing out the need to guide trainees on what sources are good, how to interpret and apply the information and how to seek support for the ideas. [AS]
- Simon Carley discusses How to Integrate #FOAMed into #MedEd. [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.