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Welcome to the 302nd 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
The ALIEM AIR Series delivers another amazing collation of the best resources in FOAM. This week, it’s an in-depth review of immunology emergencies. [RP] {Editor’s note: Our own Anand Swaminathan is on ALIEM Board, and one of his articles is listed among the best!}
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Sumaya Mekkaoui and the team at EMDaily put together an information-packed graphic review on the approach to facial trauma. [RP]
- You’ve gotta hand it to the team at UMEM Pearls and Kathy Prybys, who are back again this week with a discussion of hunan hand syndrome and its terrible cousin, Chili Willie! [RP]
- The Prehospital Emergency Podcast this month takes us back to this year’s NAEMSP conference. [MG]
- CRACKcast this week is covering core content on arthritis. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- Linda Wong uses the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines to explain why it isn’t about sticking to protocols but, rather, about critical thinking. [AS]
- Bala Venkatesh discusses the epidemiology of patients with poor prognosis at ICU admission in a podcast on the Intensive Care Network. Thought provoking… [SO]
- Reconnecting your patient to the ventilator after they successfully complete an SBT seems to reduce their risk of reintubation. Thanks to David Slessor at the Bottom Line for this article review. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- The EM PharmD asks the question not of “can we” but “should we” in a brilliant post this week discussing reversal of heparin to allow for administration of tPA. [AS]
- Missed this post from TPR on establishing brain death in the poisoned patient? Great to get some guidance in this really difficult subset of patients. [CC]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- The team from Ultrasound Gel discuss a recent paper on our ability to interpret cardiac ultrasound in cardiac arrest. Surprisingly we don’t all agree. [LP]
- Ultrasound all the kids! The team at SickKids discuss how to look for intussusception with ultrasound in an archived live-stream. [JSh]
- 5minSono discusses how to ultrasound & identify valve “boogers” in this fantastic presentation on endocarditis [LP]
The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- There’s an acknowledged link between Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease, but the reason why is unclear. The Methods Man helps to clarify a recent study from Pediatrics that suggests it may be an environmental cause, rather than a genetic one. It’s a useful reminder to keep Celiac Disease on the radar in our young diabetics! [RP]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- Don’t faint, but this week’s Louisville Lectures is on Syncope [ML]
The Best of Medical Education and Social Media
- Check out a fantastic talk by Grace Leo discussing how we can change up our teaching style to better engage learners. From this year’s Don’t Forget the Bubbles conference [AS]
- Have you got the right tool for the job? When it comes to using the right one for directly observing your trainees, have a read here for a great summary. [CC]
- For those interested in ED simulations–improvising patient care scenarios for student and emergency staff education–the focus of Simulcast Journal Club Podcast 8 & September Wrap was an article titled “It is time to consider cultural differences in debriefing” – oh yes, it is time! The October article was about best practices for sim with simulated patients, and a recent Pause & Discuss on The Harms Involved in Improving Patient Safety interviewed Ann Mullen from the Foundation of Simulation Safety on myriad ways that simulation can paradoxically cause harm. [CN]
- Doing Gender: An Anthropologist’s look at Gender in #CBME is the pick of recent posts on ICE Net, in my opinion. [CN]
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 – #FOAMres #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)
- Rick Pescatore [RP] (EM News UC:RAP)
- Matt Siuba [MS]
- Jeffrey Shih [JSh](ALiEM)
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Marjorie Lazoff, MD
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