LITFL Review 289
Welcome to the 289th 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
Our own Anand Swaminathan explains why the cognitive response to hypotension should not be to reach for a pressor but to treat the underlying condition in his post on occult causes of non-response to vasopressors. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Incredible podcast from EMCrit featuring Nadia Awad talking NOAC reversal. A must listen for Emergency providers and resuscitationists. [AS, SR]
- Fantastic talk from Essentials of EM and Amal Mattu on avoiding the clean kill in wide complex tachycardias. [AS]
- First10EM offers an excellent review of the recent literature on interventional stroke treatment and asks many of the critical questions in application. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Is high flow nasal oxygen non-inferior to NIV in patients at high risk of re-intubation? David Slessor from the Bottom Line discusses a recent RCT on the topic. [SO]
- Aidan Burrell from the Alfred gives us a little lesson on VADs as part of the “Everything ECMO” series. [SO]
- INTENSIVE also have their inaugural podcast! Listen to David Tuxen discuss ventilation in asthma, and subscribe to the resource. [SO]
- Andrew Davies has yet another excellent podcast with a Master in Intensive Care- this time it’s Professor Imogen Mitchell from Canberra. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- John-Emile Kenny goes through the physiology of IVC collapse and explains why using a simplistic approach to IVC collapse is dangerous in the setting of complex physiology. [SR]
- More on IVC from Rory Spiegel as he reviews a recent paper looking at the accuracy of IVC collapsibility. [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.