LITFL Review 246
Welcome to the 246th 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
Rory Spiegel again turns his skeptical eye to the dramatic results of the endovascular treatment of stroke studies. This time around he’s discussing why the THRACE study, while positive, gives us cause to restrain our excitement. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- So you’ve read REACT2 which says there’s no difference in mortality between pan-CT vs focused imaging + plain radiographs in assessing injuries from major blunt trauma. So what use is the humble chest X-ray in trauma? The Resus Room discuss a recent paper on the matter.[CC]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- The Intensive Care Network have put up a great podcast by Rob Olver on novel anticoagulants.[SO]
- The Bottom line review a recent trial looking at standardised rehabilitation in ICU. [SO]
- Josh Farkas delivers a thoughtful post on Bayesian statistics and Fragility in another statistics based Pulmcrit blog. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Cliff Reid challenges us to rethink the terminology of the difficult airway. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- A great clinical review from DFTB on Paediatric asthma aimed at the pre-hospital crew discussing some commonly held beliefs on the topic [CC]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Third part of research lecture series, Study Design, quality and performance improvement, is ready for you at the Louisville Lectures [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Excellent post and insights on teaching procedural skills from Casey Parker. [AS]
- More great discussion on how we think and cognitively debias in the BroomeDocs discussion of the Debiasing dance. [AS]
- Alan Grayson reflects on how trainers and EDs can care for their trainees and how to meet the challenges facing EM together, particularly in the UK, whilst revealing his inner Whitney. [CC]
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.