LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 274th 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
Justin Morgenstern writes about performance under pressure: the problems, what it means for providers in medicine, and mechanisms to cope with pressure at the workplace. He assimilates a huge amount of information, from FOAM, research articles and books, into a valuable one-stop shop on this hot topic. [SR] [CN]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Our own Anand Swaminathan covers a simplified approach to tachydysrhythmias. [SR]
- Lauren Westafer and Jeremy Faust cover back pain and the dreaded spinal epidural abscess. (If you haven’t missed one, you haven’t practiced long enough.) [SR]
- Simon Carley discusses his top 10 (+ 1) trauma articles of the year on the St. Emlyn’s blog. [AS]
- Vibha Gupta puts together a nice post on common tracheostomy issues and how to manage them. [SR]
- Have you blocked 2016 out as the ‘worst year ever’? Don’t fear! Simon Carley has summarised his favourite 10 (+1) trauma papers of the year for you. EBM gold [CC]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Josh Farkas reviews the treatments of Hypertriglyceridemic Pancreatitis on this great post. [SR]
- Arne Diehl at INTENSIVE guides you Q&A style through one of the important puzzles of VA ECMO management: differential hypoxia, a condition that also goes by the exotic names of Harlequin Syndrome and ‘North-South phenomenon’. Enjoy! [CN] [ML: Chris Nickson (CN) served as reviewer to this and the following Intensive post]
- James Day talks us through weaning the patient from VA ECMO in a second great post from INTENSIVE. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Resuscitation
- Janos Baombe from St Emlyn’s talks us through a recent topical paper- the now infamous “intubation in cardiac arrest” retrospective study from JAMA last month. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Jacob Avila & Mike Stone talk upper extremity nerve blocks. [SR]
- Phil Rola has a lovely case demonstrating the use of bedside ultrasound in sepsis. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Paediatrics
- Ken Milne reviews a step by step approach in the evaluation of fever in infants. [SR]
- Tim Horeczko destroys some myths about paediatric care. [JS]
- Anton Helman has put together a very nice post on PALS topics. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Great new podcast, recommended by Casey Parker, is called IMReasoning. The hosts of the show are Nicolas Szecket and Art Nahill. [SR]
- Lorel Brown opens up about Aortic Stenosis in this week’s Louisville Lectures. [ML]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- A quick tip so elegant in it’s simplicity: Ian Miller urges us to ‘own the bed’. [JS]
The Best of Medical Education and Social Media
- Rob Cooney asks, “what would happen to education if we took education evidence seriously?” A great piece on medical education. [AS]
- Erica Howe discusses Ping-Ponging. Not the game but a cooperative approach to teaching different levels of learners. [SR]
- A fantastic post from a legendary emergency physician Judith Tintinalli discussing the style and habits she’s developed over a lifetime in EM. [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)
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Marjorie Lazoff, MD
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