LITFL Review 296
Welcome to the 296th 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
Casey Parker writes a magnificent piece, focusing not only on the science but on the humanity and compassion in medicine. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- A pair of great resources on Delirium in ED, an underdiagnosed life threatening emergency with the awesome CrackCast from the CanadiEM guys and a blog post from the ACCS Survivor. [CC]
- The University of Maryland has a quick read about concussion outcomes. [MG]
- Dr Smith features another case of wide complex rhythm. [MG]
- The August summary of the Annals of Emergency Medicine is out! [MG]
- Get some core content on hypertension from FOAMCast. [MG]
- Learn about troublesome tracheostomies at Taming the SRU. [MG]
- Another trial has been published exploring the efficacy of supplemental oxygen in myocardial infarction- trust Rory Spiegel to talk us through the DETO2X trial. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation
- The Bottom Line discuss a classic trial: the POISE trial which looked at perioperative beta-blockade. Lovely work from Peter Szedlak. [SO]
- The latest Master in Intensive Care to talk to Andrew Davies is Peter Brindley– discussing burnout and being a good person. [SO]
- Michael Allison discusses volume responsiveness in the critically ill via the Maryland CCP. [SO]
- Josh Farkas has a fascinating discussion on brain death, its mimics, and how flow scans can help us. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Do you TAPSE? Learn over at the Ultrasound GEL podcast. [MG]
- Use ultrasound in cardiac arrest better, thanks to a new podcast from the Ultrasound Podcast crew. [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]
Reference Sources and Reading List
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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.