LITFL Review 197

Welcome to the 197th 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

Want to hear a specific article critically appraised? Submit your picks to The SGEM using their superb Hot or Not process, a fantastic new FOAMed feature. [SL]

A superb new resource collating intensive care case series, with evidenced-based answers to really useful clinical questions: icmcasesummaries.com. [SL]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog discusses the short differential diagnosis list for a large R wave in V1. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Anton Helman welcomes Rich Levitan, Andy Sloas and David Barbic to discuss the management of the critically ill obese patient. [AS]
• Chris Hicks discusses the 10 Commandments of Trauma Resusc on REBEL EM. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• The US of the Week blog highlights a case of necrotizing fasciitis rapidly identified by POCUS. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• Core EM reviews hyperinsulinemia-euglycemia therapy in the treatment of calcium channel blocker overdose. [AS]
• If you missed last week’s News from the Fast Lane: the LITFL team has developed the Toxicology Library! Check it all out here. [ML]

The Best of #FOAMped Paediatrics

• Don’t Forget the Bubbles has teamed up with APLS to release the videos from the 2013 and 2014 Paediatric Acute Care Conference, online and freely available; after this year’s conference in October, the videos from 2015 are promised to appear online as well. Their first video is Gary Williams on Emerging Viral Infections. [TRD]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• As the folks at Louisville Lectures are still on summer break, you have time to catch up on  the specialty list of Grand Rounds-type lectures online posted over the past year.  [ML]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• The Skeptics Guide to EM (SGEM) goes global with new podcasts in French, Spanish and Portugese. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• There are now over 1,600 entries in the Critical Care Compendium… and counting! [CN]

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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