LITFL Review 262
Welcome to the 262nd 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
The Regions EM blog offers a short but important discussion on the reliability of the blood pressure cuff, specifically, the lack of accuracy at lower blood pressures. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- This week’s CrackCast tackles the emergency management of seizures. A great core content review of something the ED sees every day. [AS]
- Tessa Davis talks us through performance anxiety in Emergency Medicine and some strategies to help you overcome them in your practice. [CC]
- Rory Spiegel discusses overdiagnosis in PE (again) with a follow up to his initial discussion on the RESPECT-ED trial. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Celia Bradford from the Bottom line reviews an old classic- the RENAL trial, which compared high and low dose haemofiltration. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Edward Snelson takes us on a tour of some important numbers in paediatrics. They can be useful you know, even if they are made up…..[CC]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- A great evidence-based overview of something that terrifies most nurses outside of oncology units: antineoplastic and chemotherapy drugs. [JS]
- SallyAnne Jones and our own Jesse Spurr are tackling issues of leadership in nursing. This is a very thought provoking podcast on professional organization in nursing. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Louisville Lectures on Incorporating Transgender Care into Every Day Primary Care applies to any kind of care ]ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Why shouldn’t we use text heavy slides? Ross Fisher drops a mini-thesis on us about the weaknesses of traditional lectures and the slidument. [AS]
- Weingart and Brindley hit part II of discussions about rudeness in healthcare and serve up some suggestions in how to set or change culture. [JS]
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.