LITFL Review 256
Welcome to the 256th 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
Assessing oxygenation with an ABG has to be better than simple oxygen saturations, right? Well…Josh Farkas may make you think otherwise with this superb post. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Another excellent list of top articles of the month from First10EM and BroomeDocs. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Jon-Emile Kenny gives his thoughts on the recent LeoPARDS trial which looked at levosimendan in septic shock. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Paramedic vs physician management of out of hospital cardiac arrest. A great look into the topic by Johannes Vopelius. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- A truly fascinating case that I’ve certainly never seen before is the Ultrasound for this Week from Ben Graboyes. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Continuing their Research Series, Annuradha Persaud investigates the use of Diagnostic Tests in this week’s video slide presentation from Louiseville Lectures. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- EM, and medicine in general, is all about diagnostic uncertainty. So why can’t we do a better job of communicating probabilities on diagnoses? First 10 in EM explores the topic 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.