LITFL Review 251
Welcome to the 251st 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
Ketamine for acute behavioural disturbance, the narrative summary from Andy Neill’s talk from EuSEM16, with a particular highlight of the Neill sedation assessment tool! [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Should you be using the modified Sgarbossa criteria to diagnose acute coronary occlusions in the setting of a left bundle branch block? Core EM reviews the validation study of this approach. [AS]
- Save more lives, be amazing at the basics. This is a great blog from RCEM on Parkinson’s patientsin the ED. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Incredible post by Josh Farkas delving into the nuanced management of DKA including the lack of utility bicarbonate therapy in the initial management. [AS]
- The ETM podcast features a counterpoint opinion on emergency surgical airways (Part 2) with Scott Weingart. See too Part 1 cast with Bruce Paix. A great listen. [AS]
- qSOFA, we hardly knew ye. Josh Farkas reviews the attempted validation study of qSOFA noting that sensitivity was too low to recommend wide adoption. [AS]
- The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s annual conference, LIVES 2016, began this weekend. The first sessions have already been blogged, thanks to Adrian and the social media team. [SO]
- Tom Woodcock has posted an excellent stash of resources for learning about fluid physiology and the revised Starling principle. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- One of our own, Salim Rezaie, has a great series of posts on resuscitation sequence intubation. Check out part 1 and part 2 (part 3 coming soon)[SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Learn to ultrasound the lungs the right way with this video from 5 Min Sono. [AS]
- Matt and Mike have an update on appendix ultrasound– well worth a listen. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- DFTB walk us through the paediatric airway assessment then the rarely encountered paediatric CICO. Bicycle clips around the ankles? Rehearse. [CC]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Ross Fisher discusses how you can make your teaching session more effective, even on short notice. [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)
Reference Sources and Reading List
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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.