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 129th 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 ALiEM
Chris Nickson [CN] from LITFL, iTeachEM, RAGE and SMACC
Joe Rotella [JAR] from LITFL
Mat Goebel [MG] from LITFL
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
Thomas Dolven from ScanCrit has an enthralling post out titled Code Brown: Emergency Surgical Airway Revisted. He recounts the events of his second emergency cric in a resus that does not have a happy outcome. He incorporates the lessons learned from the first time he performed the procedure and how he has trained to not fail since. A great insight into the ‘Mind of a Resuscitationist’. [CN]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
Everyday risk in EM, a great series at ALIEM, features Is the Patient Sober? Clinical Sobriety versus Blood Alcohol Concentration [CN]
EM Lit of Note always packs a punch. This week we find that we are Still Muddling Through Massive Hemorrhage – uncertainty still reigns in the world of ‘hemostatic resuscitation’. [CN]
EM Nerd laments the pushing of procalcitonin as a biomarker capable of indicating sepsis in “The Adventure in the Valley of Fear” [CN]
Jesse Spur at Injectable Orange reminds us to look at the bigger picture when assessing patients – how to master the End-of-Bedogram. [TRD]
R.E.B.E.L EM gives us a lovely summary of four game-changing studies in Emergency Medicine. [TRD]
Jo Deverill at STEM supplies a quick POP quiz - test your ortho knowledge. [TRD].
When is inferior ST-elevation with reciprocal changes not a STEMI? Find out from Dr Smith. [MG]
Pericarditis or STEMI? Amal Mattu helps you make the subtle call. [MG]
Handshakes are old-fashioned, as Obama showed us, fist bumps are the way forward. And they are far less dangerous. More greatness from ALiEM. [TRD]
Lots of goodies served up by The Trauma Professional’s blog this week: The 8 Hour Rule For Open Fractures: We’re So Over That, Fracture Blisters Demystified, and Can You Reverse Clopidogrel (Plavix) With Platelets? [CN]
The SGEM has said Make it So: BEEM Appraisal Tools – they free for all… awesome! [CN]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
The ED ECMO podcast shares some evidence with us that chest compressions are safe for LVAD patients. [MG]
The perfect warm up to smaccGOLD, Podcast 119 – Rich Levitan on the Surgical Airway, a lecture from EMCrit recent mini-conference [CN]
Just what the doctor ordered from the Maryland CC Project: HIV + Critical Illness: a primer of ICU management followed by an IO update with Intraosseus: when central access isn’t an option [CN]
PulmCCM has an overview of CAP based on a recent NEJM review: Community Acquired Pneumonia (Review, NEJM) [CN]
I’m always happy to see another Jeremy Cohen talk hit the FOAM world — ICN have posted Cohen on The Problem with Sepsis Trials — look out for him at smaccGOLD [CN]
The Best of #FOAMPed Paediatrics
Over at Don’t Forget the Bubbles, Henry Goldstein reviews best practice for managing community needlestick injuries in kids. [TRD]
Anand Swamithan reviews a recent paper and reminds us to tailor our management of acute otitis media according the each patient, particularly if they have tympanostomy tubes in situ. [TRD]
Resus.ME asks Is 4 Joules per kg enough in kids? [CN]
The Best of #FOAMTox Toxicology
TPR has a great round up of #FOAMTox with Sriracha, Zohydro, and more: tox on the web and then there is Central pontine myelinolysis associated with ethylene glycol intoxication [CN]
#MedEd Education
Sound advice from Melane Clothier on what to do if you’re called to give evidence in Court. [TRD]
The MEDiC series is awesome – this one deals with tensions in a multicultural team: MEdIC Series: The Case of the Culture Clash: Expert Review and Curated Commentary [CN]
ICN has a couple of posts supporting next weeks smaccGOLD social media for dummies’ workshop: FOAM: Enjoy the bubbles by Lauren Westafer and Blogs & blogging basics by Matt Mac Partlin [CN]
News from the Fastlane
A personal reflection by Kristin Boyle reminds us why working night shifts are so important. [TRD]
Rick is back with The “Olden Days” and the (o)esophagus and new LITFLer David Denmam revisits post-arrest cooling in We need to talk about TTM…. Again while Kirsty McNamara provides and interesting #FOAMtox Q&A in A Fisherman’s Friend… or Foe? [CN]
It is smaccGOLD week next week, so The LITFL review will be having a week off… If you’re in the Gold Coast, make sure you come up and say ‘Hi’ to the LITFL team. Chris, Michelle, Tessa, Gerard, Ed, John and Joe will all be there! Oh and the entire RAGE team will be there too, including Haney Mallemat all the way from Baltimore. [CN]
LITFL Review EM/CC Educational Social Media Round Up
Show Reference list
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