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Welcome to the 339th 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.
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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
First10EM features an excellent one-stop shop for reading up on the different types of biases that are commonly seen in the literature. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Trying to choose a NOAC giving you headaches? Check out review of apixaban and rivaroxaban from the EMPharmD. [AS]
- How exactly do you manage the airway in a cardiac arrest? ETI? SGA? BVM? The Taming the SRU crew provide a fantastic deep dive into the evidence behind cardiac arrest airway management. [MMS]
- Take a pause next time you decide to prescribe a macrolide for your community acquired pneumonia (CAP) patient. Look at your local resistance patterns and embrace an alternative strategy. [MMS]
- PHEMcast talks about major incidents with providers who were there. Learn from their experiences with response, CISM, and more. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation
- Is there a better way to treat Torsades de Pointes? And does anyone (besides me) use atropine or isoproterenol to increase base heart rhythm rate and shorten QTc? [AJB]
- Jo Davy discusses a now classic trial of balanced solutions vs starch in the critically ill – another great contribution to The Bottom Line. [SO]
- Want to get faster and slicker at ECMO cannulation? A wire assistant is an essential part of the team, and the ED ECMO guys tell us how that works. [SO]
- How asleep should patients be? Bruno Tomazini discusses the adverse associations between deep sedation and mortality in the latest ICU revisited post. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Fantastic post from Tox + the Hounder Meghan Spyres on the osmol gap, anion gap, metabolic acidosis and the KULTS menominic. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Looking for a realistic vascular access simulator? Jason Bowman and Jacob Avila show a simple technique using a chicken breast and penrose drain. [MMS]
- Download the free Google Play store #POCUS app Bulldog Sonobites, by @Yale_EUS, perfect for just-in-time learning [CMD]
- Listen to @nobleultrasound talk about everyday uses of lung #POCUS from the folk at @ultrasoundpod [CMD]
The Best of #MedEdFOAM and #FOAMsim
- Looking to start a wellness project at your shop? The WRaP EM team are developing “How to” guides on this. My personal favorite: the “Staff Resus Trolley”. [MMS]]
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 – #FOAMres #FOAMped – #FOAMtox – #FOAMus – #FOAMim – #FOANed
Brought to you by:
- Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM:RAP, Core EM,REBEL EM and The Teaching Institute)
- Andrew J. Bowman [AJB]
- Bruno Tomazini [BT] (ICURevisited)
- Chris Connolly [CC] (RCEMFOAMed, FOAMShED)
- Chris Nickson [CN] (RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
- Cian McDermott [CMD] (POCUS Geelong, SMACC)
- Craig Wylie [CW] (BadEM)
- Jeffrey Shih [JSh](ALiEM)
- Luke Phillips [LP] (POCUS Geelong)
- Manpreet ‘Manny’ Singh [MMS] (emDOCs.net)
- Marjorie Lazoff [ML] (TandemHealth)
- Mat Goebel [MG]
- Matt Siuba [MS]
- Philippe Rola [PR] (Thinkingcriticalcare)
- Rick Pescatore [RP] (EM News UC:RAP)
- Sarah Newman [SN]
- Salim Rezaie [SR] (REBEL EM, The Teaching Institute)
- Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast, The Bottom Line)
- Thomas C. Neal [TCN]
LITFL Review 339 Marjorie Lazoff, MD
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