LITFL Review 258
Welcome to the 258th 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
Nearly missed this one: Ryan Radecki goes audio in a podcast reformatting of EM Lit of Note posts from the month of October. Slick brief critical appraisals, quality audio–a must add to your podcast library. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- EMCrit goes straight to the (man who wrote) the textbook for a mental model for the assessment and diagnosis of the comatose patient [JS]
- A thorough GEMcast overview of eye emergencies in the elderly. [JS]
- Everything you ever wanted to know about chest drains highlighted by Simon Carley and the St Emlyn’s blog. [AS & SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- The Maryland CCProject have a great podcast summarising the recent SCCM guidelines on ICU nutrition. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Core EM features a great review of fluid resuscitation and responsiveness based on this article from Paul Marik. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- The Poison Review looks at the spread of a messy problem: the misuse and abuse of anti-diarrheal medication Loperamide. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- The Bottom Line has had a ultrasound-tastic week, with papers covering acute respiratory failure, IVC scanning for fluid responsiveness in SAH, finding the cricothyroid membrane in obese patient and more! [SL& JS]
- 5 minute Sono have just updated their DVT video. Check out Jacob’s compression US skills, and adopt, practice and master! [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Life Can Be Cruel is another worthwhile read from Don’t Forget The Bubbles. Spare a few minutes for this one. [ML]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Basics of HIV Medications in a basic slide show presentation, from Louisville Lectures [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- One of the best SMACC Dub talks is finally up- Richard Smith discusses the Perils of Peer Review.Listen, comment, and share, everyone… [SO]
- Anton Helman describes the route to sustainability for EM Cases Podcast, with a description of his route to funding the ‘free’ of FOAMed. [SL]
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.