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LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 286th 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
Anand Swaminathan goes through the literature on the use of Amiodarone and asks: Is Amiodarone Dead? [SR]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Bryan Haynes shares his EM Pharmacotherapy Guidelines and Position Statements covering many common emergency conditions. No direct full text links, but click on numbered references for links to PubMed citations and abstracts located at the bottom of the page [ML]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Adrian Wong and the ESICM social media team attended their haemodynamics meeting in Athens last week, and produced some excellent blogs. [SO]
- Duncan Chambler has also written some excellent blog summaries after attending the Wessex ICS annual meeting- start with this one on prone ventilation. [SO]
- Can clinicians accurately predict survival and functional outcomes of ICU patients at 6 months? Steve Mathieu dissects a recent trial looking at this in another Bottom Line post. [SO]
- Andrew Davies brings us another delightful conversation with a Master in Intensive Care, this time with Associate Professor Dianne Stephens from Darwin. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- The Ultrasound Podcast features a chock full of pro pearls from Castlefest 2017. [AS]
The Best of Medical Education and Social Media
- Ross Fisher shares some pro last minute tips to keep in mind before a major presentation. [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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LITFL Review 286
Marjorie Lazoff, MD
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