Welcome to the 270th 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 FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Ashley Liebig delivers a powerful, poignant and thought provoking talk on the golden fleece, the golden hour and the golden rule. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
Moises Gallegos introduces a new mnemonic for the management options of EPISTAXIS. [SR]
Andy Neill reminds us of the importance of taking a temperature and how those dang tympanic thermometers work (or maybe they dont). [SR]
Rory Spiegel explains why evidence on opioid prescription by emergency physicians is only as good as the methodological constructs it is derived from in his post The case of the aimless company. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
Brilliant and inspiring talk from SMACCDub on the challenges of delivering high quality critical care in resource poor areas from Nikki Blackwell. [AS]
Josh Farkas makes an impassioned plea for us to differentiate symptomatic bradycardia based on how sick the patient is and tailor management to the level of sick. Atropine isn’t the answer in the crashing bradycardic patient. [AS]
Does light therapy help to reduce the incidence of ICU delirium? The Bottom line review an interesting trial designed to investigate just that. [SO]
Critical Care Northampton is becoming an increasingly valuable source of FOAMed. Here’s their February roundup of interesting article, featuring some great ultrasound, resuscitation, and critical care tips. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Resuscitation
Great discussion from Peter Brindley and Jon Gatward on real-life out of the OR airway management. Calls for cooperation and communication as much as for technique much needed. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
Is there utility to a < 4 hour acetaminophen level? The Poison Review takes a look at a recent publication questioning its value. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
Looking to become an ultrasound pro? Check out the 10 tips Casey Parker thinks you should embrace on the Ultrasound Podcast. [AS]
Ultrasound of the Week #77 involves an important diagnosis. See: A 46 year old woman develops leg pain [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Paediatrics
Don’t Forget the Bubbles offers a terrific review of challenging patients along with some tips on how to improve these difficult situations. [ML]
A great guest post by Ross Fisher on St Emlyns and the merits of leaving the foreskin well alone. [CC]
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The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
This week’s Louisville Lectures spans hepatorenal syndrome [ML]
The Best of Medical Education and Social Media
A Ross Fisher twofer: First, Ross Fisher explains why data slides in a presentation cannot simply be the table from the scientific document. [SR]
Then, Hysteron Proteron: Putting the cart before the horse. In presentations, as Ross Fisher discusses, this is the act of building your supportive media, before you build your story. [AS]
News from the Fast Lane
Check out what’s new amongst the 1,650+ pages of the Critical Care Compendium in CCC Update 014 [CN]
Reference Sources and Reading List
Emergency Medicine and Critical Care blog/podcast list
LITFL Global Blogroll
FOAMEM RSS feed syndication for global FOAM
#FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMped – #FOAMtox – #FOAMus – #FOAMim – #FOANed
Brought to you by:
Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM:RAP, Core EM,REBEL EM and The Teaching Institute)
Chris Connolly [CC] (RCEMFOAMed, FOAMShED)
Chris Nickson [CN] ( iTeachEM, RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
Jesse Spurr [JS] (Injectable Orange, Simulcast, The Teaching Institute)
Marjorie Lazoff [ML] (TandemHealth)
Mat Goebel [MG]
Salim Rezaie [SR] (REBEL EM, The Teaching Institute)
Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast, The Bottom Line)
Last update: Feb 20, 2017 @ 5:32 am
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