LITFL Review 269
Welcome to the 269th 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
Rinaldo Bellomo delivers a mind-blowing talk on glycaemic control in the critically ill. A must listen. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Can we use the d-dimer to rule out aortic dissection? First10EM + EMCases feature a deep dive into the literature on the topic in both blog + podcast form. [AS]
- Glucagon for oesophageal food bolus? Ken Milne and Meghan Groth team up to review this great paper in another victory for EBM and another nail in the coffin of this emetogenic therapy. [CC]
- Are you looking after the big sick neuro trauma patients in your shop? Then this is a must read from EMDOCS. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- How does methylene blue compare against vasopressin in Sepsis? The Bottom line take a look at a study looking at exactly that. [SO]
- Jonathan Downham and Gavin Denton, both Advanced Critical Care Practitioners from the UK, break down 3 recent critical care papers (MACMAN, intubation in cardiac arrest, and low tidal volume ventilation in the UK) in their new podcast. Look out for more! [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- The Sick and the Dead. Chris Hicks and Andrew Petrosoniak dive into the most important trauma literature of 2016 in their SMACCDub talk. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Is there utility to a < 4 hour acetaminophen level? The Poison Review takes a look at a recent publication questioning its value. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Novel therapies for low grade lymphomas in older adults is this week’s novel presentation from Louisville Lectures [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- What is the future of EM Medical Education? It’s anyone’s guess but Simon Carley takes a deep dive into where we were, where we are and where we are moving. [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)
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.