LITFL Review 285
Welcome to the 285th 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
Haney Mallemat shares some cheat codes for central line placement on 5 Minute Sono with Jacob Avila. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Should patients with SBP get albumin infusions? Rick Pescatore dives into the literature on REBEL EM. [AS]
- Ken Milne turns his skeptical eye on the much discussed REACT2 paper and asks if it’s OK not to “scan ‘em” all? Has your practice changed since the publication? [CC]
- Is there a role for Icatibant in ACE Inhibitor induced angioedema? Despite the press around a small 2015 NEJM study, the answer is no—based on recent evidence reviewed here by Bryan Hayes. [AS][SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Josh Farkas has an excellent discussion on a revised analgesic ladder for the critically unwellpatient. Well worth a look! [SO]\
- The TRICOP trial, which looks at liberal vs restrictive transfusion in oncology patients with septic shock, is expertly reviewed by David Slessor for the Bottom Line. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- ALiEM reviews the role of the linear probe in 1st trimester pregnancy. [AS]
- Rory Spiegel discusses the Bayesian use of POCUS in diagnosing pulmonary embolus in “A Case of Shadows Continues” [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.