LITFL Review 280
Welcome to the 280th 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
What does it take to give the greatest presentation ever? Ross Fisher discusses at SMACCDub. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- EM docs reviews the evidence for head CT before LP in patients with suspected bacterial meningitis. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Josh Farkas puts up a brilliant post on timing of RSI meds: Rocketamine vs Ketoronium. And Scott Weingart puts out a wee reviewing the nuances of this strategy. [SR]
- The resus room reviews their top 10 papers of 2016 – 2017. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- What is Leisurely Laryngoscopy and how do you do it? Reuben Strayer discusses during his amazing talk at SMACCDub. [AS]
- EMCrit talks sequence and timing of RSI meds this week. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Learn chest wall blocks for rib fractures with Matt, Mike and Jacob on the Ultrasound Podcast. [AS]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Have you heard the FeminEM story? Check out the incredible talk from founders Dara Kass and Jenny Beck-Esmay at SMACC detailing why this site furthers equality of the sexes for the benefit of women and men. [AS]
- Justin Morgenstern reflects on the mistakes he has made in medicine and the importance of talking about them. [SR]
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.