LITFL Review 348
Welcome to the 348th 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
Simon Carley delves deep into the world of narrative learning and story-telling in education and why we must add and develop this skill. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Rory Spiegel discusses the consequences of our unending pursuit of the “zero-miss” strategy in the evaluation of chest pain in the Emergency Department. [AS]
- Learn from the noise of ED return visits in the latest EM Cases post focusing on 10 opportunities for reducing missed MIs. [MMS]
- Excellent review of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia by Pendell Meyers in another joint collaboration between Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog and EMCrit. [MMS, MG]
- Monkey Pox has re-emerged… but is it important? Janos Baombe from St Emlyn’s takes us through its features. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation
- The Internet Book of Critical Care keeps producing. This week, GI bleeding – diagnosis, risk stratification and management. [AS]
- The Intensive Care Network continue to upload great talks from the recent cardiac themed CICM ASM in Australia. Here’s some learning on Ventricular Assist Devices and Transplants in non-cardiac conditions. [SO]
- Does discharging patients “out of hours” from ICU affect outcomes compared to patients discharged during routine care? It seems to. Check out this review of a meta-analysis on such patients from The Bottom Line. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Time to clean up our act when performing peripheral US guided IVs. ALiEM discusses best practice and the evidence for probe cleaning and protection. [LP]
- Pneumothorax: an update to this classic POCUS indication! [JSh]
- The SHOC-ED debate rages on! Ultrasoundgel.org dissect this important negative outcome trial[CMD]
- POCUS for pleural effusion – check out the latest update from @5minsono [CMD]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Stormi Gale, PharmD shares a concise review of the three recent trials of aspirin for primary prevention of CV events. Current guideline recommendations are summarized as well as the impact of these results on preventive management in patients with elevated CV risk. [TCN]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- Thought provoking post by Eve Purdy on the “wrong” side of the road and thinking carefully about our biases and beliefs. [AS]
- Stage II of website overhaul in progress
- Latest Library feast – the Top
100150 CXR quiz...try using the NINJA search to find the CXR topics of your choice…majik
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.