LITFL Review 273
Welcome to the 273rd 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
Steve Mathieu from Portsmouth ICU shares his hot topics for the UK FFICM slides, from a great course preparing UK trainees for their Intensive Care Exams. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Layla Abubshait and Hyunjoo Lee created a cheat sheet guide to laceration repairs, suture type, and removal time. [SR]
- Richard Wrobleski and Zachary Repanshak review severe transfusion reactions and their management. [SR]
- CORE EM reviews two important papers on Toradol dosing and sedation with ketofol. [SR]
- Bryan Hayes reviews a new publication on how best to use low dose IV ketamine for analgesia in the ED. [SR]
- Ken Milne and Ryan Radecki offer two reviews on the Ottawa Heart Failure Scale: for prognosis,and the decision to admit or discharge heart failure patients. [SR, AS]
- Matt Rogers reviews an interesting paper on high dose NTG vs standard infusion of NTG in acute hypertensive heart failure preventing ICU admissions. [SR]
- Celia Bradford covers the AMACING Trial: Prophylactic Hydration vs No Hydration to Prevent CIN in “High Risk” Patients. [SR]
- Rory Spiegel reviews The IMPRESSION Trial. Morphine does inhibit the absorption of Ticagrelor, but does this affect patient oriented outcomes (MI, Death, Stroke) or Surrogate Endpoints (Ticagrelor Levels). [SR, AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- George Kovacs discusses emergent awake intubation. In this vodcast he goes through the steps and nuances of how to perform this important procedure. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Should we be designing cardiac arrest centers? The Resus Room discusses the ideas this week on the podcast. [AS]
- Another excellent SMACC podcast from Chris Hicks on developing the resuscitative collective unconscious and embracing a flow state. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Damian Roland talks Pragmatogenesis and dogmalysis in the context of unexplained tachycardia in kids [CC]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Vasculitis is reviewed in this week’s Louisville Lectures. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Cliff Reid shows how he takes time out of a stressful work environment to teach by having a picnicat work. [SR]
- Simon McCormick shares the third in his blog series about his own breakdown, a thought provoking piece that will allow you to hold a mirror up to yourself and maybe gain some insight to colleagues behaviours. [CC]
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.