LITFL Review 288
Welcome to the 288th 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
Andrew Davies interviews the legendary John Myburgh as part of the “Mastering Intensive Care” series. An absolute must listen from elsewhere in LITFL. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Our own Chris Nickson reposts Mike Cameron’s great tips for a new Emergency Physician that can sustain a long career. [AS]
- To NOAC or not to NOAC in non-valvular AF? CanadiEM has an excellent review comparing NOACs vs. warfarin for this indication. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Alex Psirides’s awesome slide set from his SMACC talk on death and dying are available as FOAMed. Awesome! [SO]
- Josh Farkas makes a compelling argument against testing the gag reflex in awake patients. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Paul Marik writes an impressive polemic, admonishing us to not use IVC Ultrasound as a guide to resuscitation in Sepsis. Especially interesting as Scott Weingart posts a reply straight away…[SO]
- Learn some tips on managing crashing pulmonary oedema combined with a rapid heart rate from Dr Smith’s ECG blog. [SO]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Burnout is a hot topic in all fields of medicine. Listen to Iain Beardsell do an amazing interview with Liz Crowe this week on St. Emlyn’s. [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.