LITFL Review 265
Welcome to the 265th 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
Sergey Motov, Reuben Strayer and Lewis Nelson this week launched the first free, open-access online pain management book for acute care. It’s an absolutely monstrous undertaking with chapters to roll out serially as they become available. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Looking for some great EM orthopedic core content? CRACKCast features a podcast this week on the Knee and Lower Leg and Core EM tackles Calcaneous Fractures. [AS]
- Simon Carley rattles through his ‘top papers’ of 2016. Turns out it wasn’t the ‘worst year ever’!! [CC]
- What is the right IO needle length for obese patients? [JS]
- Excellent review of “hypertensive emergencies” reframing as emergencies with associated hypertension with a focus on what meds for what disease process from EMCrit. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Does hypothermia work for neuroprotection in the management of status epileptics? The Bottom Line reviews the HYBERNATUS study, which doesn’t find a clear benefit. [SO]
- Josh Farkas makes a (further) case for IV olanzapine as a sedative in this week’s Pulmcrit. [SO]
- Dexmedetomidine in post-operative non-cardiac surgical patients, has it come up with the goods again in reducing delirium? Bottom Line – quite possibly. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- It’s the middle of winter in northern Europe, and Scancrit gets topical by taking us through this coolreview of post resuscitation hypothermia. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Ultrasound for skull fractures? Edeblog have a great case with images and some cool references. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Louville Lectures bags Mechanical Ventilation this week [ML]
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.