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LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 285th 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
Haney Mallemat shares some cheat codes for central line placement on 5 Minute Sono with Jacob Avila. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Should patients with SBP get albumin infusions? Rick Pescatore dives into the literature on REBEL EM. [AS]
- Ken Milne turns his skeptical eye on the much discussed REACT2 paper and asks if it’s OK not to “scan ‘em” all? Has your practice changed since the publication? [CC]
- Is there a role for Icatibant in ACE Inhibitor induced angioedema? Despite the press around a small 2015 NEJM study, the answer is no—based on recent evidence reviewed here by Bryan Hayes. [AS][SO]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Josh Farkas has an excellent discussion on a revised analgesic ladder for the critically unwell patient. Well worth a look! [SO]\
- The TRICOP trial, which looks at liberal vs restrictive transfusion in oncology patients with septic shock, is expertly reviewed by David Slessor for the Bottom Line. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- ALiEM reviews the role of the linear probe in 1st trimester pregnancy. [AS]
- Rory Spiegel discusses the Bayesian use of POCUS in diagnosing pulmonary embolus in “A Case of Shadows Continues” [SO]
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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Anand Swaminathan
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