LITFL Review 183

Welcome to the 183rd 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

 The Emergency Medicine Educator’s Conference (EMEC) posted the first of its conference videos. Dan Boden shares Derby’s ideas and success on teaching the whole department. Plenty of food for thought….. [SL]

 

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• Bryan Hayes reviews the literature supporting the use of ketamine for rapid sedation of the agitated patient on ALiEM. [AS]
• The utility of medical expulsive therapy in renal colic has been questioned many times. Ryan Radecki highlights a recent large RDCT that may put the topic to rest once and for all. [AS]
• The PHARM featured a talk by our own Mat Goebel on “Killer EKGs (other than STEMI)” geared toward prehospital providers. [ML]
• In case you missed it last week, the May edition of the Annals of Emergency Medicine audio summary is available! [MG]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• EMCrit reviews the treatment of thyroid storm and creates a one-stop spot for all the clinical information required to treat this life-threatening entity. [AS]
• REBEL EM Reviews a new approach to PEA evaluation that is more in tune with the way the resuscitationist thinks. [AS]
• Ashley Shrieves wrote a great article for EP monthly about communicating when the end is near. [MG]
• Josh Farkas makes some great arguments in his top 10 reasons why we shouldn’t cool to 33 degrees anymore. [SO]
• A reminder: the diagnosis and management of traumatic brain injury is available from the kind chaps at the INTENSIVE blog. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Ultrasound to diagnose the cause of AMS? Great case from ALiEM highlighting the role of US in the undifferentiated hypotensive patient. [AS]
• In light of recent discussion on 2-point vs whole leg ultrasound for DVT, the Ultrasound Podcast demonstrates the whole upper leg approach. [MG]
• Essential case from Ultrasound of the Week. Everyone memorise these images from a common scenario of acute shortness of breath. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMPed Pediatrics

• REBEL EM ventures into pediatrics with a post on 7 pediatric hacks for your ED. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine

• Louisville invites you inside the brain of a cardiologist in Bradyarrythmias with Dr Brown. [ML]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• The Teaching Course has two new great podcasts from it’s course in November from Vic Brazil on Asking Great Questions and Bryan Hayes on How to Deliver Feedback. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• The SMACC 2015 Schedule for the June 23-26th conference in Chicago is online [AS]
• Check out another jammed packed edition of Research and Review in the Fast Lane 082 [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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