LITFL Review 300
Welcome to the 300th 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
Flavia Machado is this week’s Master of Intensive care, discussing how she manages things in a low resource setting. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Is Contrast-Induced nephropathy a real thing in CT scans with contrast? REBEL EM reviews a recent systematic review and meta-analysis. [AS]
- Is it allergy or just side effect? This blog editorial from CanadiEM takes us through some common myths and misconceptions. Did someone say dogma-lysis? [CC]
- Dr Smith examines a case with extremely subtle t wave changes. [MG]
- Can the normal reading from an ECG computer be trusted? Find out from Dr Smith [MG]
- The September edition of the Annals of Emergency Medicine podcast is out! [MG]
- Meghan Spyres dives deep into Wernicke’s Encephalopathy to ensure that we don’t miss this life-threatening diagnosis. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation
- An interesting discussion on a paper about the use of iloprost infusions for the ‘big scary’ in sepsis. How mottled is mottled? [CC]
- Taming the SRU looks at flush flow O2 and heads up intubation as the future or airway. [MG]
- A nuanced takedown of U.S. sepsis core measures and regulations, and the slippery slope that could follow, from PulmCCM. [MS]
- Are recruitment maneuvers dead? PulmCCM reviews the just-released ART trial with a case-based discussion. [MS]
- The ESICM LIVES Conference has just completed in Vienna, and #foamed coverage is already available via their scrollable blog. [SO]
- Is fresh blood better to transfuse in the critically ill than old blood? Celia Bradford from the Bottom Line dissects the TRANSFUSE trial to find out. [SO]
- Rory Spiegel reminds us once more that our actions in the ED have (good or bad) consequences. The Case of the Divisive Tincture reviews the recent JAMA study on an early resuscitation protocol for patients in septic shock. [RP]
- The Resus Room podcast looks at cardiac arrest from roadside to the resus bay. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- What happens when kids are on pot? Find out from Tox Now. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Poop Sac 2.0: Ultrasound Podcast’s updated discussion on point-of-care ultrasound for small bowel obstruction. [JSh]
- A Twittercase on urosepsis is a valuable read even without a literature review, particularly when accompanied by an US. From intensivist Phil Rola. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMpeds Pediatrics
- Does your pediatric patient have a non-blanching rash? Based on this Glance, consider assessing using the NBL algorithm. [RP]
- Pediatric EM Morsels provides more than a morsel on managing orbital cellulitis. [RP]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- COPD kills millions of people every year. Review Hiram Perez’s Personalized medicine approach to COPD at Louisville Lectures. [RP]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- The EM Clerkship podcast has a great overview of fluids. [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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#FOAMed Updates
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.