LITFL Review 242
Welcome to the 242nd 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
Andrew and the DFTB guys write a touching tribute to Kate Granger. #hellomynameis has changed the world. Rest in Peace Kate. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- A great episode from emcrit on the management of euvolaemic hyponatraemia. [SL]
- Inspired by Reuben Strayer’s great talk at SMACCDUB, CORE EM takes a look at sedation of the agitated patient. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- SCANCRIT turn their critical eye on the ATACH2 trial and ask if we should aggresively lower BP in acute non-traumatic ICH? [CC]
- So, how does targeted temperature management perform in the real world (ie. not in an RCT)? – check out this slick PulmCrit post. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Louiseville Lectures’ Treating Depression in the Primary Care Setting is applicable for all patient care settings so long as appropriate follow-up can be arranged. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- INTENSIVE have a great post discussing systematic reviews and meta analyses. Brush up on your stats with their top tips! [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.