LITFL Review 191

Welcome to the 191st 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

St Emlyns take #FOAMed to another superb level with their introductory course for new starters in Emergency Medicine. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• FOAMCast reviews the use of vasopressors delving into the mechanisms of the different agents and the use of peripheral administration. [AS]
• Cool infographics from Boring EM discussing VTE and the new oral anticoagulants (NOACs). [AS]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• The Emergency Trauma Management blog has some great tips on dealing with epistaxis in the ED. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Respect the right ventricle or you’ll have Matt, Mike and guest podcaster Haney Mallemat to deal with. [AS]
• Great review of ultrasound guided femoral nerve blocks from emDocs.net. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMped Paediatrics

• REBEL EM discusses tips on managing kids with fever focusing on clinical assessment and observation. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• Latest in the Louisville Lecture series: Dr. Brown discusses Complications of MIs. [ML]
• The Bottom Line tackles the question of 7-day working and mortality effects with another fantastic review of a paper on weekend hospitalisation and additional risk of death. [SL]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• Excellent guide and resource on getting started on twitter from Injectible Orange. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• Check out another jammed packed edition of Research and Review in the Fast Lane 093 [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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