LITFL Review 184

Welcome to the 184th 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

Here’s an awesome new echo resource from the Nepean Hospital ICU in Penrith, NSW, Australia, containing basic and advanced physics and scanning resources. [SO]

 

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Boring EM reviews the relevance of INR measurements to risk of bleeding during a procedure in patients with liver disease. [AS]
• It’s not just about video versus direct laryngoscopy. It’s about the angulation of the blade. Great slidecast from Reuben Strayer. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Rory Spiegel reviews the recent NEJM article on high-flow nasal canula (HFNC) over non-invasive ventilation or standard oxygen therapy in non-hypercarbic, hypoxemic respiratory failure. Although this article doesn’t provide definitive proof of benefit, Rory discusses how the information can guide clinical care. [AS]
• The Bottom Line has a nice complimentary review to Rory’s post on high-flow nasal canula with some additional critiques and thoughts. [AS]
• As if the top two weren’t enough, both Justin Mandeville (ICMWK)  and Josh Farkas (Pulmcrit)  have further discussions around this trial. Check out Justin’s review here and Josh’s here. Is it time to buy shares in HFNC? [SO]
• Concerned about giving peripheral vasopressors prior to central access? Check out
  this post from Rebel EM. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Emergency Medicine Cases has a journal jam pitting ultrasound against CT for renal colic. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• In this first of University of Louville’s two-part series on spondylarthropathies, rheumatologist Dr. Charles Moore discusses a clinical approach to patients with ankylosing spondylitis,  polymyositis/dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, anti-synthetase syndrome and scleroderma.  [ML]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• EM Mindset from Matt Dawson – Compassion, Humility, Curiosity, Humor, Courage. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• The SMACC 2015 Schedule for the June 23-26th conference in Chicago is online [AS]
• Check out another jammed packed edition of Research and Review in the Fast Lane 085 [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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