LITFL Review 188

Welcome to the 188th 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

Unbelievable talk from John Hinds at SMACC US – Crack the Chest. Get Crucified. If you’re unclear why it is that the FOAM world was so saddened at John’s loss, this will quickly jog your memory. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• The SGEM HOP (Hot Off the Press) features Jeff Kline and Chris Carpenter discussing outpatient management of pulmonary embolism with rivaroxaban. [AS]
• How do we manage grief in the ED? Liz Crowe and Iain Beardsell discuss how grief affects us as providers and people. [AS]
• Should we pursue medical management of acute appendicitis and have the studies been framing the question and the data correctly? Rory Spiegel discusses on EM Nerd this week. [AS]
• What’s the best evidence for administering oxygen to COPD patients? Emergency medicine blog outlines the goldilocks principle. [MG]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• Double Punch Defibrillation for refractory VF? A thought provoking discussion on ScanCrit. [CC]
• EMCrit does a deep dive on the use of High-Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) in hypoxic respiratory failure. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMtox Toxicology

• The Poison Review discusses updated recommendations for hemodialysis in salicylate overdose. [AS]

The Best of #FOAMPed Pediatrics

• Tessa Davis reviews an article on the consequences of missed diagnosis of meningitis in the ‘hot tot’ group, and discusses the effect of those misses on mortality [CC]
• EM Cases welcomes Samina Ali and Anthony Crocco on to discuss pediatric pain management. [AS]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• If you haven’t checked it out already, make sure to go over to Critical Care Horizons and review the first four articles published in this completely Free Open Access journal. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• Check out another jammed packed edition of Research and Review in the Fast Lane 090 [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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