LITFL Review 290
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
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
- I review a recent study on IVC collapsibility for fluid responsiveness for the Bottom Line this week. Opinions welcome! [SO]
- The Alfred ICU held a recent Advanced mechanical ventilation conference. The tweets have been collated and “storified”. Thanks, Chris! [SO]
- A second Alfred ICU podcast is posted, this time on Training for Stress. [SO]
- Jonny Wilkinson reflects on Early Goal Directed Therapy. Does it really kill? [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]
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]
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.