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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Fantastic post by Justin Morgenstern on Optimizing the Basics of Airway Management prior to intubation. [SR]
• Who needs empiric coverage for HSV Encephalitis?  A great question and review via Josh Farkas [SR]
• Should you embrace fixed dosing for PCC? The EM PharmD says yes and gives a nice argument and algorithm this week. [AS]
• The Trauma Professional’s blog is incredibly prolific. This week there are great posts on Trauma Team Activation: What’s It Like For Your Patient? (remember, they hear and feel everything) and When Is A Physician Too Old To Practice? (is it time for mandatory testing of wellness and competency?). [CN]
• Expand your knowledge on thiamine deficiency with an excellent in-depth post from emDocs. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Absolutely incredible video from Philippe Rolle on pericardiocentesis and placement of a pericardial drain in a patient with tamponade. [AS]
• Bruno Tomazini, of Brazillian blog ICU Revisited, spoons in piles of salt on top of the gaping recruitment manoeuvre wound in The ART trial and how lung recruitment died. Hmm, nothing dies an EBM-related death that easy… [CN]
• Paul Marik discusses the rationale behind the CLASSIC trial in another iSepsis post. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation

• Fantastic post by Justin Morgenstern on Optimizing the Basics of Airway Management prior to intubation. [SR]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Get back to basics with an excellent review of musculoskeletal ultrasound physics & tissue appearance from the Ultrasound Site [LP]
• The World Congress on Ultrasound in Medical Education as held in Montreal last week. There are some great pearls in its twitter feed and listen to this podcast with Dr Danielle Royer as she discusses integrating ultrasound into anatomy teaching. [LP]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Take your tech savviness to the next level! Learn about pediatric vagal nerve stimulators, intrathecal pumps and ventricular assist devices from Timothy Horeczko [MMS]
• Thought-provoking blog post from the DFTB guys on the non specific ways in which a brain tumour can present.  Do you measure head circumference in persistent vomiting?  Now you do. [CC]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• The dreaded upper variceal hemorrhage is the subject of this week’s Louisville Lectures. [ML]

The Best of #MedEd FOAM

• Canadi-EM turn their eye to the topic of deliberate practice and hand motion feedback in the sim lab for teaching and refining CVC insertion. [CC]

News from the Fast Lane

• The R&R in the Fastlane team needs YOU! [CN]
• Andrew Davies and Alex Psirides have a storming conversation on end of life care. Listen to LITFL’s  Masters of Intensive Care share their thoughts. [SO, CN]
• Doug serves up some more great Jellybeans with the Austin ICU’s Director Stephen Warrilow and VikingFOAMer Sandra Viggers. [CN]
• Big update in the CCC this week: the ICU Ward Round. [CN]

Reference Sources and Reading List

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] (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)
• Rick Pescatore [RP] (EM News UC:RAP)
• Matt Siuba [MS]
• Jeffrey Shih [JSh](ALiEM)

Last update: Oct 30, 2017 @ 9:41 am

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Marjorie Lazoff, MD