LITFL Review 287
Welcome to the 287th 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
Aoife Abbey has created a whole bunch of excellent SMACC infographics- all available on https://scribblingdixie.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/first-blog-post/. Enjoy! [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Can’t be at SMACC? Check out reviews of the day from REBEL EM and the St. Emlyn’s crew from day 1. [AS]
- The FOAMcast team have lots of wonderful pearls from DasSMACC- listen here. [SO]
- As the 2017-8 ALiEM is underway, a reminder of the wonderful 2016-7 ALiEM Academic Primer Series and Curator Collections for Educators. From ALiEM’s Faculty Incubator workshop. [ML]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Jon-Emile Kenny takes on one of my favourite topics: the circulation, in an explanation of the Mean Systemic Filling Pressure. [SO]
- The REVIVE trial looking at the effects of a rehabilitation programme following a spell on intensive care is reviewed by the Bottom Line this week. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Such amazing stuff coming out around dasSMACC. Check out Chris Hicks brilliant reflections on simplicity and complexity in resuscitation. [AS]
- If you’re not already doing so, it’s time to embrace US guided femoral lines in cardiac arrest. [AS]
- Is intubation harmful in cardiac arrest? Scancrit give their take on a recent JAMA article. Is it the tube or the positive pressure that is the problem? [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Ultrasound and disco combine in this excellent post on recognising VFib in cardiac arrest using POCUS, thanks to Sonospot! [SO]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Incredible post from Josh Farkas explaining why sensitivity and specifity are not only not helpful but can be misleading and why we need to focus on likelihood ratios instead. [AS]
- Is it okay to openly critique a presenters slides or presentation? Ross Fisher says absolutely yes but listen to the why here. [AS]
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.