LITFL Review 231
Welcome to the 231st 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
Paul Marik, critical care legend, takes on lactate in this incredible podcast from the Intensive Care Network. My brain is still recovering. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Rory Spiegel delves into the intricacies of non-inferiority trials in discussing the ENCHANTED trial. [AS]
- Nicole Vetter and Jesse Sturm have a great review of 10 procedural sedation errors made in the ED. [SR]
- The Skeptics Guide offers a critical appraisal of two recent articles looking at medical expulsion therapy in renal colic. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Josh Farkas explains why fentanyl infusions could be dangerous in prolonged ICU sedation of patients on mechanical ventilation. [SR]
- My new family at the Bottom Line review an old paper on supine position as a risk factor for VAP. Now we can understand one of the reasons why 30-45 degrees head up tilt is used in ICU… [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- A brilliant new FOAM resource from Sheffield ED in the UK with FOAMshed! This first post on perimortem c-section gives a succinct overview on the topic. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Here’s a great little pearl on the use of digoxin antibody in chronic digoxin toxicity,from Bryan Hayes. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Great post from Ben at Ultrasound of The Week. Have a look at the findings in this lady presenting with shortness of breath and see what you think… [SO]
- Kylie Baker puts up a really thoughtful youtube video on how to get good “bat” views while performing lung ultrasound. It really blew my mind! [SO]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- A solid primer on chest x-ray interpretation, from an awesome new nursing education blog. [ML]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- In the Louisville Lecture series, Dr Rosenblum provides a breathlessly exciting talk on Pulmonary Cases for internists. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- SGEM podcast dissects a evaluation of integrating an ultrasound simulator into high-fidelity simulation. Worth a visit just to read the comment thread. [JS]
- From the man that wrote the rule-book on simulation debriefing: interprofessional communication: challenges and opportunities. [JS]
- Damian Roland has a thoughtful post in his WILTW series, challenging us to prevent our information filters from failing– and providing tools to help. [SO]
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.