LITFL Review 272
Welcome to the 272nd 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 Ultrasound podcast have just released a great series on TEE for crashing patients. Here’s part 1 and part 2. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Our own Anand Swaminathan and Christina Chien discuss fluid resuscitation in the ED. They discuss the nuances of fluid responsiveness and fluid tolerance. [SR]
- CanadiEM offers an excellent review of LVAD patients and the common complications we see in the ED. [AS]
- How do we assess patients who present with mental health issues? Rob Orman discusses his approach to assessing these patients. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Josh Farkas discusses volume resuscitation and abdominal compartment pressures. Under resuscitation is not a good thing, but so is over resuscitation as this can cause multiorgan failure. [SR]
- Does early high flow nasal cannula application improve hypoxaemia compared to conventional therapy after major abdominal surgery? The OPERA trial aimed to answer this question, and is reviewed this week by the Bottom Line. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Another excellent SMACC podcast from Chris Hicks on developing the resuscitative collective unconscious and embracing a flow state. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Jacob Avila shows us how to do a full hand nerve block by anesthetizing the radial, ulnar, and median nerves. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Tim Horeczko reviews supraglottic airways in pediatric patients. They are safe, fast, & reliable. [SR]
- DFTB turns its critical eye on some recent papers in the world of PEM with some new guest reviewers under the bubble wrap. [CC]
- Edward Snelson serves up a PEM morsel of confirmation bias, causation and correlation with a dollop of dogmalysis on the side for good measure. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- This week’s Louisville Lectures breathes life into Sarcoidosis. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Annahieta Kalantari discusses burnout and how to overcome it by telling us her own story. [SR]
- Easy access to senior residents and fellows with the advent of smartphones and rapid response teams may improve patient care but does it enhance or hinder training? A thought-provoking postfrom ICENet. [AS]
- How do we create a “psychologically safe” environment in simulation? Here are some great tipsfrom the Debrief 2 Learn team. [SO]
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.