LITFL Review 255
Welcome to the 255th 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
A literal ripper of a review on thoracic aortic dissection, covering everything from presentation, symptoms and signs to help us pick up this too frequently missed presentation. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- The Resus Room reviews the latest update on what we know on Stroke Thrombolysis from this month’s EMA. There’s Odds Ratios and cans of worms strewn left right and centre…..[CC]
- REBEL EM urges us to sit down and have a think about the PESIT trial before PE screening everyone who presents with a first episode of syncope. [ML]
- Training in EM is not without its challenges. Janos Baombe takes on the UK perspective in this thoughtful post from St Emlyns. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Weingart sits down with Peter Brindley to discuss rudeness and how it affects the way we provide care. [AS]
- Which is better for non-invasive ventilation: helmets or Facemask? Tom Pratt reviews a recent JAMA paper on the topic for the Bottom Line. [SO]
- Thomas Woodcock takes on many preconceptions about albumin in intensive care in this very challenging post. He welcomes comments. [SO]
- Josh Farkas discusses a recent trial looking at HFNC versus BIPAP post- extubation. Maybe we should be using HFNC more often? [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Neonatal resuscitation scares all of us, even the most seasoned peds EM veterans. Justin Morgenstern shares a quick guide to the first 10 minutes of the necessary evaluation. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Philippe Rola presents a great case showing the power of dynamic ultrasound over CT. Great images and video too. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- ALARA and TELE-POC are just some of the awesome acronyms you will be familiar with after this great review of a recent paper on Paed EM POCUS by the guys at DFTB. Are we about to see a new dawn in Paediatric imaging? [CC]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- Is it all about that evidence-base? Jennifer Jackson challenges the premise that only one type nursing knowledge matters. [JS]
- A simple mnemonic for avoiding critical drug errors: APINCH. [JS]
- Is nursing the most unreasonable job? Great podcast and a gateway to other FOANed resources at AUSMED
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Louiseville Lectures presents a video on Statistical Thinking and Significance with 95% confidence. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Brilliant post from our own Chris Nickson on hacking medical education and where we should be moving in the way we think about medical education. [AS]
- St. Emlyn’s features an excellent post on tips in teaching and mentoring trainees in EM. [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.