LITFL Review 194

Welcome to the 194th 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

When is ST elevation not ACS? Read Stephen Smith’s blog for a great case demonstrating that ST elevation = ischemia but not necessarily coronary occlusion. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• A primer on xanthochromia from Boring EM. [AS]
• EM Cases discusses the workup and management of patients with sickle cell disease presenting to the ED with pain. [AS]
• CTPA’s might not be quite the gold standard test you were hoping for, a review of a paper on the topic from emlitofnote is well worth a read. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• How to assemble an ED thoracotomy tray from Scott Weingart. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Excellent case and discussion of the utility of ultrasound in the assessment of vision loss or acute vision change from ALiEM. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• Latest in the Louisville Lecture series on idiopathic interstitial pneumonias, with Dr Roman. [ML]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• Excellent tips from Ross Fisher on overcoming performance anxiety and making your presentation great. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• Check out another jammed packed edition of Research and Review in the Fast Lane 096 [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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