Welcome to the 234th 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 chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Simon Carley shatters our illusions of superiority, making us question whether we are really in the 93% that self-rate as “above average.” Are you as good as you think? [JS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Some interesting tidbits on pneumothoraces from Andy Neill that may be a surprise to us all. [SL]
- First 10 in EM site posts its articles of the month for May. [AS]
- History of Australasian Emergency Medicine is a fascinating interview conducted by Amit Maini with Edward Brentnall, one of the Australian founders of emergency medicine. He recounts the origins and early development of the specialty in Australasia. [CN]
- Should we avoid venepuncture on the same side as breast surgery and lymph node removal? This and more picks from the literature in Andy Neill & chums in their new inEM for June. [SL]
- This week, Core EM reviews the true knee and simple patellar dislocations. [AS]
- Diltiazem IV to PO is explained via Jorge Varela, PharmD [SR]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- The Bottom Line on an evaluation trial of 6 different videolaryngoscopes in simulated difficult airways. [JS]
- Jon-Emile Kenny discusses Saline, Acidity, and the Stewart approach in a great post from PulmCCM. [SO]
- Scott Weingart and Phillipe Rola discuss fluids in sepsis (again). Is using vasoactive drugs earlier better? [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Resuscitation
- ECG Medical Training discusses QI/QA of cardiac arrest calls, after a recent discussion on the EMS Nation Podcast. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- Check out this great rant against the use of POCUS for visualising pills in stomachs. Doesn’t affect management… [SO; this toxicology-and-ultrasound twofer was cited last week by reviewer CC, so this week we’re alerting its other relevant section by a second reviewer.]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Matt and Mike discuss pulmonary oedema with Jacob Avila. Get scanning everyone! [SO]
The Best of #FOAMped Paediatrics
- Tim pulls out the playbook and lays out a mind-map approach to the shocked child. [JS]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- The week, Louisville Lectures searches for the unknowable FUO. [ML]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- Sustainable Nurse is a brilliant new project from Brian Ericson. The latest post drills into the number one tool for improved work performance: listening. [JS]
The Best of Medical Education and Social Media
- Teaching in the ED is hard under any circumstances but near impossible when it’s busy. Rob Cooney discusses way to maximize opportunities even during the busiest of shifts. [AS]
- Why + how I teach by Cliff Reid is a nice inspirational piece for medical educators. [AS]
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
- Twitter: #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMtox – #FOAMped – #FOAMus – #FOAMim – #FOANed
Brought to you by:
- Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM Lyceum, iTeachEM)
- Brent Thoma [BT] (BoringEM and Academic Life in EM)
- Chris Connolly [CC]
- Chris Nickson [CN] ( iTeachEM, RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
- Jesse Spurr [JS] (Injectable Orange)
- Marjorie Lazoff [ML]
- Mat Goebel [MG]
- Salim Rezaie [SR] (REBEL EM, The Teaching Institute)
- Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast)
- Simon Laing [SL] (HEFTEMCast)
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