LITFL Review 162

Welcome to the 162nd 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

Fantastic new podcast channel from Jesse Spurr, with a gem of an episode with Ross Fisher on presentation skills. If you’re planning a presentation make certain to have a listen…..first! [SL]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• More excellent analysis of the MR CLEAN trial on intra-arterial treatment of ischemic CVA, this time, from Rory Spiegel. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Amal Mattu discusses the identification and treatment of a common problem: Non-sustained Ventricular Tachycardia. [AS]


• Resus.me has a nice succinct critique of the THRIVE study which uses high-flow nasal cannula for apneic oxygenation instead of standard nasal cannula. [AS]


• There’s no sensitive and specific way to predict that a patient will have a difficult airway but trying to do so is still useful, in that it ensures that we think about the airway. [AS]

#The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics

• Sean Fox at PED EM Morsels discusses the question of which steroids are better for asthma – dex or pred? [TRD]


• Don’t Forget the Bubbles provides an approach to paediatric knee x-ray interpretation. [TRD]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• Amazing tips from Chris Nickson on the ALiEM “How I Work Smarter” series. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• The SMACC 2015 Schedule is now available!! [AS]


• Check out another jammed packed edition of Research and Review in the Fast Lane 063 [ML]

Reference Sources and Reading List

• Emergency Medicine and Critical Care blog/podcast list


• LITFL Global Blogroll


• FOAMEM RSS feed syndication for global FOAM


• Twitter streams for #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMtox – #FOAMped – #FOAMus

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)


• Joe-Anthony Rotella [JAR]


• Kane Guthrie [KG]


• Mat Goebel [MG]


• Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast)


• Simon Laing [SL] (HEFTEMCast)


• Tessa Davis [TRD] (Don’t Forget The Bubbles)


• Marjorie Lazoff [ML]

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