LITFL Review 241
Welcome to the 241st 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
Rob Mac Sweeney’s Critical Care Reviews will showcase upcoming trials of interest in critical care. Its inaugural podcast is on Paul Young and the ICU-ROX trial. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- The Core EM Podcast reviews the PATCH trial and asks whether patients with ICH on antiplatelet therapy should routinely be given platelets. [AS]
- This should be part of every surgical and EM doc’s induction; why relying on the WCC in a suspected appendicitis is inappropriate. [SL]
- Josh Farkas walks us through a step by step approach to figuring out which patients admitted with pneumonia need MRSA coverage. [SR]
- Scott Weingart answers a post peer review question: Should Nasal Cannula be part of denitrogenation/preoxygentation? [SR]
- The Bottom Line looks at a paper on high flow nasal oxygen in the ED, the HOT-ER trial. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- If you missed it last week: Is there any benefit in intensive blood pressure control for intracranial haemorrhage? Here is the Bottom Line. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Amiodarone is the best anti-arrhythmic. Or is it? Rory Spiegel discusses the data on amiodarone vs procainamide in “the case of the dysrythmic heart”. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Matt and Mike discuss the use of ultrasound in trauma- this time focused on airway and breathing.[SO]
- Phillipe Rola and Jon-Emile Kenny discuss hepatic and pulmonary physiology with a heavy ultrasound focus in their NYC tracks: part 1 and part 2 are available. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Damian Roland reviews the latest NICE sepsis guidance with a focus on young people [CC]
- Great case based review of Pyloric stenosis from the guys over at DFTB [CC]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Louiseville Lectures’ Boot Camp series will cover high-yield, critical topics that are useful to starting interns. This week offers Phase 1, or matters of the heart…the patient’s heart, not ours. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Simulcast has arrived! Victoria Brazil and Jesse Spurr bring us bring us a new podcast helping us to master simulation, starting off with the first episode on; The Future Vision of Simulation in Health Care. [SL]
- More on a great new concept, from a great new blog. ScanFOAM introduces us to ‘How I Sim’. [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)
Reference Sources and Reading List
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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.