LITFL Review 283
Welcome to the 283rd 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
An incredible and eye opening review of his visit to meet the team at Mitchell’s Plains in South Africa and the stark reality of treating incredibly sick folks in sometimes limited setting really hitting hard for Simon Carley. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Matt Wiles from Sheffield, UK shares his thoughts on traumatic brain injury management in a beautiful document compiled from a recent talk he gave. Great stuff! [SO]
- Core EM reviews the evidence behind the use of Rh Immune Globulin in 1st trimester pregnancy. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Ash Banerjee gives a great overview of mechanical ventilation strategies in a fabulous talk from ICN. [SO]
- The 4th Singapore ANZICS meeting has just been completed, and talks are being uploaded straight to their page as #foamed. Why not start with Mervyn Singer’s talk on sepsis? [SO]
- From the Bottom Line: a review of a trial looking at empirical antifungal therapy in ICU patients at high risk for fungal infection. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- POCUS Geelong is a lovely group, and this week they share pearls on identifying and managing pleural effusions. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Thom O’Neill reviews a recent paper on the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ paeds patients. Real soul searching and enlightening stuff. [CC]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- The Bottom Line features an excellent review of type I + II error, power and some other critical statistical concepts. [AS][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.