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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week

 The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Is Contrast-Induced nephropathy a real thing in CT scans with contrast? REBEL EM reviews a recent systematic review and meta-analysis. [AS]
• Is it allergy or just side effect?  This blog editorial from CanadiEM takes us through some common myths and misconceptions.  Did someone say dogma-lysis? [CC]
• Dr Smith examines a case with extremely subtle t wave changes. [MG]
• Can the normal reading from an ECG computer be trusted? Find out from Dr Smith [MG]
• The September edition of the Annals of Emergency Medicine podcast is out! [MG]
• Meghan Spyres dives deep into Wernicke’s Encephalopathy to ensure that we don’t miss this life-threatening diagnosis. [AS]

 The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• An interesting discussion on a paper about the use of iloprost infusions for the ‘big scary’ in sepsis.  How mottled is mottled? [CC]
• Taming the SRU looks at flush flow O2 and heads up intubation as the future or airway. [MG]
• A nuanced takedown of U.S. sepsis core measures and regulations, and the slippery slope that could follow, from PulmCCM. [MS]
• Are recruitment maneuvers dead? PulmCCM reviews the just-released ART trial with a case-based discussion. [MS]
• The ESICM LIVES Conference has just completed in Vienna, and #foamed coverage is already available via their scrollable blog. [SO]
• Is fresh blood better to transfuse in the critically ill than old blood? Celia Bradford from the Bottom Line dissects the TRANSFUSE trial to find out. [SO]
• Rory Spiegel reminds us once more that our actions in the ED have (good or bad) consequences. The Case of the Divisive Tincture reviews the recent JAMA study on an early resuscitation protocol for patients in septic shock. [RP]

The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation

• The Resus Room podcast looks at cardiac arrest from roadside to the resus bay. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• What happens when kids are on pot? Find out from Tox Now. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Poop Sac 2.0: Ultrasound Podcast’s updated discussion on point-of-care ultrasound for small bowel obstruction. [JS]
• A Twittercase on urosepsis is a valuable read even without a literature review, particularly when accompanied by an US. From intensivist Phil Rola. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Does your pediatric patient have a non-blanching rash? Based on this Glance, consider assessing using the NBL algorithm. [RP]
• Pediatric EM Morsels provides more than a morsel on managing orbital cellulitis. [RP]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• COPD kills millions of people every year. Review Hiram Perez’s Personalized medicine approach to COPD at Louisville Lectures. [RP]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• The EM Clerkship podcast has a great overview of fluids. [MG]

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

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)

Last update: Oct 2, 2017 @ 3:07 pm

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Marjorie Lazoff, MD