Welcome to the 169th 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
EMOttawa shares their top EBM papers from 2014 in this really useful blog post. [SL]
A fantastic resource of Paediatric Trauma Pearls and Pitfalls from emDocs. [SL]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Great new Procedurette video from Whit Fisher on the lost art of osteophony. [AS]
- Excellent Paucis Verbis (PV) card for just in time reminder for POC echocardiography from ALiEM. [AS]
- Has the time for clot retrieval devices in the care of acute ischemic stroke finally come to pass? Ryan Radecki takes a great look at the recent lit and controversial use for carefully selected patients. [AS]
- The Sceptic’s Guide to Emergency Medicine takes on another classic paper in SGEM#106: O Canada: Canadian CT Head Rule for Patients with Minor Head Injury. [MG]
- Major trauma transfusions: plasma, platelets and RBCs–what’s the best ratio? Take a look at these two reviews by St Emlyns and The Bottom Line. [SL]
- Everyday EBM features a great case and summary of Brugada syndrome. [MG]
- Topical for our EDs at the moment: Luke Regan and friends take a look at prioritisation skills in the ED. [SL]
- ERCast features an excellent rebuttal by Rory Spiegel on the utility of CT coronary angiogram (CTCA) in patients with chest pain. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care
- More discussion of the PROPPR trial from Rory Spiegel in “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier,” from The Bottom Line and St. Emlyn’s blog. [AS]
- Excellent review of how you need to think and execute an awake airway in a patient with a mechanical obstruction from the Maryland CC Project. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology
- The Poison Review discusses some of the many dangers of tramadol prescriptions. [AS]
#The Best of #FOAMped Pediatrics
- Are you afraid of pediatric EKGs? Take the Don’t Forget the Bubbles quiz to see what you know and what you don’t. [AS]
- What’s the best way to fix a Pulled (aka Nursemaid’s) Elbow? Read Broomedocs to find out why hyperpronation is preferred to supination-flexion. [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 070 [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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