LITFL Review 304
Welcome to the 304th 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 Intensive Care Network has uploaded talks from the latest CICM ASM. Start with this one from Charlie Corke on what people value most. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Fantastic post by Justin Morgenstern on Optimizing the Basics of Airway Management prior to intubation. [SR]
- Who needs empiric coverage for HSV Encephalitis? A great question and review via Josh Farkas [SR]
- Should you embrace fixed dosing for PCC? The EM PharmD says yes and gives a nice argument and algorithm this week. [AS]
- The Trauma Professional’s blog is incredibly prolific. This week there are great posts on Trauma Team Activation: What’s It Like For Your Patient? (remember, they hear and feel everything) and When Is A Physician Too Old To Practice? (is it time for mandatory testing of wellness and competency?). [CN]
- Expand your knowledge on thiamine deficiency with an excellent in-depth post from emDocs. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Absolutely incredible video from Philippe Rolle on pericardiocentesis and placement of a pericardial drain in a patient with tamponade. [AS]
- Bruno Tomazini, of Brazillian blog ICU Revisited, spoons in piles of salt on top of the gaping recruitment manoeuvre wound in The ART trial and how lung recruitment died. Hmm, nothing dies an EBM-related death that easy… [CN]
- Paul Marik discusses the rationale behind the CLASSIC trial in another iSepsis post. [SO]
- Fantastic post by Justin Morgenstern on Optimizing the Basics of Airway Management prior to intubation. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Get back to basics with an excellent review of musculoskeletal ultrasound physics & tissue appearance from the Ultrasound Site [LP]
- The World Congress on Ultrasound in Medical Education as held in Montreal last week. There are some great pearls in its twitter feed and listen to this podcast with Dr Danielle Royer as she discusses integrating ultrasound into anatomy teaching. [LP]
The Best of #FOAMpeds Pediatrics
- Take your tech savviness to the next level! Learn about pediatric vagal nerve stimulators, intrathecal pumps and ventricular assist devices from Timothy Horeczko [MMS]
- Thought-provoking blog post from the DFTB guys on the non specific ways in which a brain tumour can present. Do you measure head circumference in persistent vomiting? Now you do. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- The dreaded upper variceal hemorrhage is the subject of this week’s Louisville Lectures. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Canadi-EM turn their eye to the topic of deliberate practice and hand motion feedback in the sim lab for teaching and refining CVC insertion. [CC]
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]
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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.