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LITFL Review 290

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Welcome to the 290th 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

Nick Cummins Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week

Portsmouth ICU just updated their free quality and safety materials with a ton of local protocols and checklists. Have a look! [SO] 


The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

  • Excellent review of recent literature on apneic oxygenation for intubation by our own Salim Rezaie on REBEL EM. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care


The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation


The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

  • While we all agree that POCUS is great for determining the presence of a PTX, there are false positives–as James Rippey discusses this week elsewhere on LITFL. [AS]

The Best of #FOANed Nursing

  • A clear and concise overview of post-operative delirium from rehabilitation Clinical Nurse Specialist, Sally Moyle. [JS]

The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim

  • Simon Carley writes a very thought provoking blog post on whether educational supervisors should also have an annual review of competence, just as we do for trainees. [SR]

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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.

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