LITFL Review 292
Welcome to the 292nd 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
More excellence from LITFL’s own Andrew Davies as he interviews Colin McArthur, another master of intensive care. They discuss feedback and valuing intensive care nurses. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Anand Swaminathan and the CORE EM crew review a very important paper on the timing of intubation in in-hospital arrest. [SR]
- The INTENSIVE podcast continues to grow. Here’s a great discussion from Dash Gantner and Jamie Cooper on decompressive craniotomy. [SO]
- Does low dose furosemide worsen renal function in the critically ill? Celia Bradford breaks down the SPARK trial for us to help us towards an answer. [SO]
- Rory Spiegel carries on deconstructing fluid responsiveness as he discusses a recent meta-analysis on the topic. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Natalie May shares more lessons from her year with Sydney HEMS this week. This post focuses on lessons learned on leadership. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Another great Ultrasound of the Week comes from Sally Graglia- see if you can put the history and picture together. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Tim Horezcko has a great episode on the pediatric surgical abdomen. His general advice: Green Vomit, Vomiting + Distention, and/or Vomiting + Shock = Surgical until proven otherwise. [SR]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- It’s time for us to stop worshiping at the altar of the p value. The Bottom Line has an excellent explanation of what the p value is and what it means. [AS]
- EMCrit features an excellent discussion from Mike Lauria on social capital and the power of social learning and connectivity. [AS]
- Take a listen to Ken Milne’s Legends of EM series featuring Diane Birnbaumer, Joe Lex and this week, Ian Stiell. [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.