LITFL Review 298
Welcome to the 298th 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
The UK Intensive Care Society recently had a meeting focusing on burnout. All the podcasts have been made #foamed- start with this one by LJ Mottram on the evidence for workplace stress in ICU, and read her accompanying blog post. [SO]
The first podcast from The Don’t forget the bubbles conference is up- listen to Mary Freer talk about compassionate healthcare. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Dr Smith has a wide complex tachycardia case that may surprise you. [MG]
- Emergency Medicine Cases has a great introduction to disaster medicine. [MG]
- How on earth should you repair a tongue laceration? Find out, from another EM:RAP FOAM segment
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Phemcast explore the utility of end tidal CO2 in the prehospital and critical care realms. [MG]
- Scott Weingart discusses intubating the Neurocritical care patient– an excellent compilation of points. [SO]
- I reviewed the recent paper on Time to treatment and mortality during emergency care in Sepsis along with my team mates at The Bottom Line. [SO]
- The Resus Room podcasts explores recent literature on the role of bicarb in cardiac arrest. [MG]
- This blog on the simple topic of cannula extension sets is thought provoking. Marginal gains in the resus room can mean the big difference to outcome. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- EM:RAP has a FOAM segment this month, exploring dextromethorphan overdose. [MG]
- Josh Farkas talks us through a case of ketamine tolerance and looks through the evidence behind it. I’m yet to experience it in my practice. Are you? [CC]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- What’s the evidence for the 60/60 sign in acute PE? David Slessor discusses the original 2002 paper for The Bottom Line. [SO]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- The EM Clerkship podcast has an overview of tachycardia geared toward medical students. [MG]
- This Week’s Roshcast has boards review questions on VF, WPW, TBI and more [MG]
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.