LITFL Review 238
Welcome to the 238th 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
Radiopaedia has the entire SMACC Radiology playlist available to view. All cases, discussion notes—everything! Awesome #FOAMed. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Sydney HEMS have just released a wealth of superb Pre Hospital podcasts on topics including scene time, penetrating trauma, primary survey and airway and oxygenation. [SL]
- The Core EM Podcast features a discussion of anaphylaxis focusing on the importance of epinephrine (adrenaline). [ML]
- Can you LP an anticoagulated patient? The available evidence doesn’t give us a clear answer but Matt DeLaney tries to make sense of it all on ALiEM. [AS]
- Commonly missed findings on CT abdo & pelvis, from EMDocs. [SL]
- Resus.me reviews the rarely used but potentially life saving hilar twist. [AS]
- Rory Spiegel discusses total body CT scanning vs selected, clinically driven scans in a thoughtful EM Nerd post. [SO]
- Interesting Bottom Line on Erythromycin pre-med for RSI and emergency anaesthesia. Beware: not patient-oriented outcomes! [JS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- REBEL has an review of a systematic review on passive leg raise for fluid responsiveness with an excellent peer-review by Haney Mallemat. [AS]
- Josh Farkas attempts to design the perfect crystalloid to replace our current options. A must read post, with excellent follow-on commentary by Thomas Woodcock. [AS/SO]
- Self-care is possibly the most important priority for a critical care physician [Ed note: long term…of course short term the immediate care of critically ill patients is the most important priority.] Iain Beardsell and Liz Crowe give us some excellent thoughts on exactly how to do this in a blog postand podcast from St Emlyn’s. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- St Emlyn’s review a recent journal article on the use of EPO in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest. The conclusions are, frankly, to be expected. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- A razor sharp evidence update on whooping cough from Andrew Tagg. [JS]
- Burns and children, scary. Amie Beattie looks at airway compromise in anterior neck burns. [JS]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- Great review of the 6 habits to improve Medical Emergency Teams. [JS]
- What shift workers should know about sleep! Nearly missed this beauty from Sustainable Nurse. [JS]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- A participant’s summary and resource round-up of SMACCDUB Leave the Sim Lab Behindworkshop. [JS]
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.