LITFL Review 268
Welcome to the 268th 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 new Surviving Sepsis guidelines are out and Josh Farkas takes them to task for continuing to purport dogmatic teaching about sepsis care. [AS] Agree, important summary of sepsis myths in need of debunking [ML]
Rob “The Machine” Mac Sweeney’s Critical Care Reviews 2017 book has been released. Summarising all the best critical care trials of 2016, it’s a must read. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- ERCast is back with a quick podcast reviewing mumps: what we need to look for and what we need to do. [AS]
- An incredibly insightful discussion from St. Emlyn’s on stroke thrombolysis and the conundrums that face us when patients present with strokes. [AS]
- EMRAP HD features a fantastic video reviewing the basics of pelvic anatomy and common fracture patterns. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Are RCTs the cornerstone of clinical practice in critical care? Peter Brindley and Jon Myburgh take each other on in a pro-con from SMACC Dub. [SO]
- Is the passive leg raise a life saving manoeuvre, or just an ICU parlour trick? Pulmccm discusses the rationale behind if. [SO]
- Do Vitamin C, hydrocortisone, and thiamine reduce mortality in sepsis? Steve Mathieu dissects this paper for the Bottom Line. Is it truly a “Marik-cle” cure? [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Remember THAT photo: ECMO in the Louvre? ScanCrit discuss the recently published case report. Awesome…or awesome waste of resource? [CC]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Anterograde amnesia and opiate poisoning served up with a warning about causation and correlation for the poison review team. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Patient evaluations for advanced heart failure therapies flows forth from Louisville Lectures [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- The ICENet Blog has an excellent review of naturalistic decision making and the role it plays in Emergency Medicine and medicine in general. [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.