LITFL Review 192

Welcome to the 192nd 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

An excellent review from St. Emlyn’s of the NICE guidelines in major trauma. Far more progressive than ATLS. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Andy Neill posts a fantastic set of videos on orthopedic splinting on LITFL. [AS]
• Excellent discussion on how to use the EKG when caring for patients with epigastric pain from Stephen Smith. [AS]
• The ALiEM team released a new PV card this week on Palliative Care Screening in the Emergency Department. [MG]
• Are you going to be leading your resus team and greeting the prehospital team?  Think about how you receive and use handover.  [CC]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• Bryan Hayes discusses the (dis)utility of acetaminophen levels less than 4 hours after ingestion on ALiEM. [AS]
• The Poisons Review team urge us to consider paracetemol (acetaminophen) toxicity in the context of metabolic acidosis and coma! [CC]

The Best of #FOAMped Paediatrics

• Damian Roland shares his thoughts about the use of patient videos to help us learn. After all, history taking involves much more than just the words that come out the patient’s mouth, [TRD]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• Latest in the Louisville Lecture series on thyroid disease [ML]
• Ever wondered why we order CRP and ESR and what the results really mean for our patients? This superb review from foam4GP will tell you what you want to know. [SL]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• In case you missed it last week: 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 094 [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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