The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
Welcome to the 111th edition, brought to you by:
Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL
Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles
Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and
Chris Nickson [CN] from LITFL, iTeachEM and SMACC
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Judging by their previous success (Canadian CT Head Rule, Canadian C-Spine Rule, Ottawa Ankle Rule, Ottawa Foot Rule), when the guys up in Ottawa publish a new decision rule the EM world should take note. The Ottawa SAH Rule is their latest masterpiece and it takes on one of our most formidable enemies. Rory Spiegal was the first out of the gate with an exceptionally well done critical analysis in The Adventures of the Three Students. [BT]
ALIEM is probably the ultimate force in FOAM right now IMO, and this post — MEdIC series: The Case of the Facebook Faceplant — is another reason why. Michelle Lin has an amazing team working on this project, and the MEdIC series created by Teresa Chan and Brent Thoma (hmm, that name rings a bell…) is a great concept. If you’re involved in clinical education or faculty development you’ll want to read the hypothetical case and comments to learn more about the pitfalls of professionalism and social media. [CN]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
It’s hard to keep up with its newest developments in the drug trade that many of our patients are involved with. In a very timely post, Leon Gussow at The Poison Review updates us on the first reports that the drug Krokodil has made its way to North America from Russia. He also provides a link to a disturbing video (not safe for work/children) that explains why this drug is named after an angry reptile. The quote from the video that sums it up: “Heroin is also bad, but Krokodil is terrifying.” [BT]
Are you using fascia iliaca nerve blocks for hip and femur fractures yet? If not, check out this well done review of the practice from the mind on top of The (not so) Short Coat, Lauren Westafer. In her post Blocked – ED Analgesia for Hip/Femur Fractures she synthesizes primary literature, FOAM and tweets in a post that is an excellent resource in its own right. [BT]
Casey teams up with prolific medical writer Justin Coleman to discuss the hard hitting and confronting topic of Overdiagnosis in Medicine. [KG]
The Skeptic’s Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) is back for another season. Ken Milne puts out weekly reviews of relevant EM articles and always incorporates a quality soundtrack. This week he discusses the latest Cochrane review on the use of Haloperidol for agitated ED patients in the podcast Vitamin H. [BT]
Risk is something were all confronted with every day in our practice. Simon Carley gave a fascinating talk on how we Wrestling with Risk at SMACC20133. A must listen to talk. [KG]
Checking for pain response during the GCS check is an assessment – a nice reminder from Ian that this shouldn’t be an assault. [KG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
Just in case you’ve not taken up the free subscription yet, be sure to check out the weekly newsletter from Critical Care Reviews — all you need to know from the medical literature and a bunch of free open-ccess review articles to boot. [CN]
The Maryland Critical Care Project is kicking serious goals right now. They continue to upload high quality talks from their fellow program. Great work by John Greenwood and team in Baltimore. This week they have two great talks online: Cardiac Arrest & Why ACLS May Be Wrong and Trauma Care for the Non-Surgical Intensivist [CN]
Who should manage airways in the critically ill? Do checklists make a difference? More questions than answers in PulmCCM.org’s Intubation Checklists — are theirs bigger than yours? [CN]
ScanCrit present CARDIOVISION — a brief intra-operative video of open heart defibrillation the reminds us that even the routine in critical care is truly amazing [CN]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_sOvF1p36U
The Best of #FOAMPed Paediatrics
Joe Lex’s pick of the week will help you regulate your resuscitation sphincter tone: Ghazala Sharieff – Resuscitating a Newborn [CN]
The team at Don’t Forget the Bubbles is on a tear! 5 authors made 7 posts this week on common pediatrics problems that we need to have down cold. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite sites. My top pick this week was Problems with Ear Piercing.
Sean Fox summarises Cat Scratch disease for us in Pediatric EM Morsels. Lymphadenopathy? – think Bartonella. [TRD]
Some lovely #FOAMPed coming from Chris Partyka at The Blunt Dissection this week – in particular this post about managing a very painful looking spiral fracture in ED. [TRD]
News from the Fastlane
Look out for the FOAM content — including some livestream sessions — coming out of the International Faculty Development and Teaching Course from October 21st to 25th. [CN]
LITFL Review EM/CC Educational Social Media Round Up
Show Reference list
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