LITFL Review 248
Welcome to the 248th 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
Susan Wilcox drops some serious knowledge on pulmonary hypertension and clapped-out right ventricles on EMCrit Podcast. Brilliant guest with excellent clinical applications. [JS]
Anatomy is back, Andy Neill returns with more of the superb Emergency Medicine Ireland vodcasts, this time he’s kicking off with a series on the hand. [SL]
The RESCUEicp trial looking at decompressive craniectomy has been published and instantaneously summarised by both The Bottom Line and EmNerd. A must read for all who look after traumatic brain injured patients. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Apparently, whippets aren’t benign. Excellent review of N2O abuse by Rich Carden and St. Emlyn’s [AS]
- Reuben Strayer talks danger, disruption and delirium and the hero of the hour? Ketamine of course……[CC]
- Ketofol vs Propofol, Local anaesthetic for shoulder reductions and aggressive blood pressure control in intracerebral haemorrhage. Becky Maxwell and chums have a look at recent papers of EM interest. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Does Idarucizumab work in stemming dabigitran-related bleeding in the real world? The Emergency Medicine PharmD blog casts even more doubt on the utility of this “antidote.” [AS]
- PulmCrit questions the need for a central line for epinephrine and phenylephrine. Spoiler: the evidence doesn’t support the dogma. [JS]
- Core EM features a video reviewing how a magnet works in AICDs and Pacemakers. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- What should you do when the ventricles don’t stop fibrillating? The clinical question posed in September REBELCast. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Using the linear probe to assess for an IUP? The Ultrasound Podcast discusses the application and why this can help with your assessment. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Here’s an awesome list of FOAMped resources generated by Emdocs. Definitely worth bookmarking. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Louisville Lectures ponders the 5th in their Research series: Research Ethics and Regulatory Considerations
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.