LITFL Review 243
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
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
- Ketofol or Propofol for procedural sedation in the ED? Both REBEL EM and St. Emlyn’s review the POKER trial. [AS]
- Will Hare has put together an amazing resource on the reversal of DOAC agents. [SR]
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
- Last week: 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]
- This week: The Bottom Line on PROCAMIO: Procainamide Vs. Intravenous Amiodarone for the Acute Treatment of Tolerated Wide QRS Tachycardia. What is better? What is safer? [JS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- The Ultrasound Podcast focuses on airway ultrasound: intubation, crics and more. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Andrew Tagg reviews the usefulness of pediatric dehydration assessments. [SR]
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
- When we are all finding our EDs swamped with patients, a superb reminder from Cliff Reid about why education really matters. [SL]
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.