LITFL Review 193

Welcome to the 193rd 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

See FOAM4GP’s Simplify the Message on how to explain a medical condition or treatment to a patient using something in their lives they can relate to. Or as Orson Scott Card puts it, “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” [ML]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• TXA in mucosal bleeding, massive hydroceles, night shifts and more on ERCast when Orman welcomes on Haney Mallemat. [AS]
• The Annals of Emergency Medicine audio summary for August is up. (iTunes, Direct) [MG]
• More great stuff from Core EM, this time including some pearls of chest pain assessment. [SL]
• A great summary from Andy Neil on the recently published draft NICE trauma guidelines. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Excellent review of succinycholine versus rocuronium for RSI in the ED from HEFT EM Cast. [AS]
• REBEL EM discusses how to provide sedation and analgesia after intubating a pregnant patient. [AS]
• Scott talks to Tom Bleck and discusses everything Status Epilepticus on the EMCrit podcast. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMped Paediatrics

• A two part series on the importance of the respiratory rate from St. Emlyn’s – Part 1 + Part 2. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• Latest in the Louisville Lecture series on pharmacogenetics. Kristen Reynolds takes a look at adverse drug reactions occurring secondary to identifiable genetic risk factors: the evidence supporting genetic testing, common mutations (CYP phenotypes), and how to decide whom to test. [ML]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• Lucky for us, still available online: an excellent guide and resource on getting started on twitter from Injectable Orange. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• Check out another jammed packed edition of Research and Review in the Fast Lane 095 [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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