LITFL Review 178

Welcome to the 178th 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

This week, the EMCrit podcast features part 2 of “Who Needs an Acute PCI” with Dr Steve Smith. This, along with part 1, is a must listen for all providers. [MG]

 

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Does CAP therapy need to included coverage of atypical microbes? PulmCCM reviews the NEJM article bringing traditional care into question. [AS]
• EM Lyceum reviews debatable issues in the management of potential spinal cord injuries. [AS]
• Dave Schriger discusses “Whose Risk are You Managing?” at Essentials of Emergency Medicine. [AS]
• A really useful introduction to pressors and inotropes in the ED from the HEFTEMcast guys this week. [CC]
• St. Emlyn’s journal club covers an article comparing subdissociative ketamine to morphine for acute pain management. Natalie May blogs about the virtues of ketamine as an analgesic and takes the opportunity to discuss the difference between superiority, non-inferiority, no difference and equivalence. Now we just have to wait for the ‘drought to end’….[CC, AS]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Amazing video capture of an open cric performed on an arresting patient via Reuben Strayer using the scalpel, finger, bougie technique. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• Can you predict which of your withdrawing alcohol dependent patients will develop DTs?  There may be some predictive tests out there, but then again…..[CC]

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 078 [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: #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMtox – #FOAMped – #FOAMus – #FOAMim

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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