LITFL Review 245
Welcome to the 245th 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
Kidney-directed resuscitation. A flood of wisdom and evidence appraisal from Pulmcrit. Enter the world of renoresuscitation. [JS]
Matthew Mac Partlin gives his own brief take on the VANISH trial on the Intensive Care Network, and asks the question: What will you do? [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- More on the fragility index. This time, Emergency Medicine PharmD takes a look at the ECASS III trial. [AS]
- REBEL EM reviews the very real and likely underdiagnosed euglycemic DKA. [AS]
- The Bottom Line review the Subtle STEMI trial, helping us all better differentiate between early depolarisation and true ST elevation. [SO]
- Emdocs put up a great summary on Non-invasive ventilation, explaining CPAP, BiLevel, and their indications. Nice work! [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- 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
- A great podcast from CRACKcast on Major Trauma, covering everything from primary survey to investigations, management and disposal [SL]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Henry Goldstein discusses a NEW Step by Step Approach to the Workup of the Febrile Infant. [SR]
- Anton Helman has an amazing and simplified approach to treating congenital heart diseases in infants/children. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Here’s some lovely tips from the folks at CanadiEM on history taking in the returning traveller. [SO]
- Boot camp, phase 2 is ready at the Louisville Lectures whenever you are [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Rich Carden gives a short primer on Bayesian thinking and it’s relevance to EM over on St. Emlyn’s this week. [AS]
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.