LITFL Review 235

Welcome to the 235th 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

Part 2 of the excellent review from INTENSIVE on what is and what isn’t an RCT. Great basics for the beginner and review for the experienced. [AS

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• EM Cases features a discussion of controversies in radiology with lots of great pearls for guiding management and imaging choice. [AS]
• Delayed presentation head injury, ball-point pens for cric and much more discussed in this edition of papers of the months from HEFTemcast [CC]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Should we be acutely lowering blood pressure in patients with ICH? Rory Spiegel takes on the ATACH-2 trial and puts it in context with other recent literature. [AS]
• Josh Farkas discusses sepsis, haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, and their overlap (oh my!) in a great post that may explain why immunosupression works in some patients and not in others… [SO]
• A really interesting discussion regarding the role and future of Advanced Critical Care Practitionersfrom a panel of experts on the Critical Care Practitioner Podcast. [SL]
• Jon-Emile Kenny discusses the effects of ARDS on the pulmonary vasculature in another elegant 1000 word physiology review. [SO]
• The Australian College of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting recently concluded. Pierre Janin has written a superb summary for the Intensive Care network. Thanks Pierre! [SO]
• The Bottom Line take on the first of two recent studies looking at timing of renal replacement therapy in critical illness. First up: the AKIKI study, which showed no difference. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation

• More great stuff from PHEMCAST, this time on maternal collapse and cardiac arrest. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Do you fancy learning advanced pneumothorax scanning techniques? Matt, Mike and Jacob Avila have an Ultrasound Podcast with your name written all over it. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Top tips for the little nippers surviving the long flight and jet lag to and from #SMACCDub from an out of shape Clark Kent…[CC]

The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim

• Victoria Brazil leads a panel of experts in discussing performance management, education, and doctors in difficulty in this excellent panel discussion from SMACC Chicago. [SO]

LITFL Weekly Review Team

Reference Sources and Reading List

• #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMres
• #FOAMped – #FOAMtox – #FOAMus
• #FOAMim – #FOANed