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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• We’ve known for some time that Kayexalate is generally ineffective in our patients, and comes with some untoward side effects. But an important piece from PulmCCM reveals that sodium polystyrene sulfonate can bind to and inactivate other enterally-administered medications! [RP]
• ERCast podcast on Summer Journal Club  reviews recent articles on abscess, c-spine clearance in intoxicated patients, lytics in PE and much, much more. [AS]
• Evaluating the patient with diarrhea can be pretty crappy. Get a better grasp of the IDSA recommendations with this pearl from the University of Maryland. [RP]
• EM cases has a great two part deep dive on GI bleeds, Part 1 and Part 2. [MG]  [Editor’s note: Two of our own, Swami and Salim, are on the podcast}
• PHEMcast features recent BASICS and FPHC proceedings from the faculty of prehospital care conference. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Pain control and sedation in the mechanically ventilated patient are critically important topics, and this week’s review at PulmCCM is full of critically important practice points. [RP]
• Deranged Physiology have updated a rather excellent and thorough page on central venous catheter insertion. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation

• The Resus Room podcast continues their roadside to resus series looking at what happens after we get ROSC. [MG]
• Neonatal resuscitation is a critical skill that is bound to atrophy when unused. This talk by Helen Liley at Don’t Forget the Bubbles is an outstanding review of a tough topic. [RP]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Ben Smith from Ultrasound of the Week has been busy: he released an updated version of his amazing free clip deidentifier, and a case using POCUS to identify rib fractures. [LP]
• Everything you wanted to know & more about ultrasounding hernias (poop sacks) from the Ultrasound Podcast team. [LP]

The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• You’ve gotta hand it to Sean Fox at Pediatric EM Morsels, who’s done it again with a thorough review of flexor tenosynovitis [RP]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• This week’s Louisville Lectures is on Axial Aching: Polymyalgia, Polymyositis, and Fibronyalgia. [ML]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• Hilarious and poignant post from Nat May discussing the philosophies of St. Emlyn. [AS]
• The EM clerkship podcasts gives a great overview of eye complaints. [MG]
• ROSHcast has a rapid board review of ectopic pregnancy. [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)
• Rick Pescatore [RP] (EM News UC:RAP)
• Matt Siuba [MS]
• Jeffrey Shih [JSh](ALiEM)

Last update: Oct 23, 2017 @ 8:50 am

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Marjorie Lazoff, MD