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LITFL Review 243

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Welcome to the 243rd 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

Nick Cummins Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week

EM Nerd Rory Spiegel gives us statistical non-nerds an excellent and important education in descriptive statistic in a case of central tendencies. [SO]



The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine


The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

  • PulmCrit puts on his antibiotic steward hat and provides six reasons to avoid fluroquinolones in the critically ill. [JS]
  • Check out the Core EM post on post-intubation sedation with some great tables for clinical reference. [AS]
  • Steve Mathieu discusses the recently published VANISH Trial: Early Vasopressin vs Norepinephrine on Kidney Failure in Patients with Septic Shock. [SR]
  • Phillipe Rola and Thomas Woodcock discuss the glycocalyx and fluid therapy in this excellent podcast. After listening, you might want to rethink using any colloid. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation


The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound


The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics


The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

  • Don’t be sad that there is no new lecture this week, instead view it as a second chance to visit Louisville Lectures’ Treating Depression in the Primary Care Setting. This presentation is applicable for all patient care settings so long as appropriate follow-up can be arranged. [ML]


The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim


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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.

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