LITFL Review 287

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Welcome to the 287th 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 chunk of FOAM.

The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week

Not able to attend #dasTTC? St Emlyn’s have a wonderful blog and podcast delivering an excellent summary of events. Start from day one… and scroll down to the bottom of the page for links to day 3 and 2. [SO] 

The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine

• As the 2017-8 ALiEM is underway, a reminder of the wonderful 2016-7 ALiEM  Academic Primer Series and Curator Collections for Educators. From ALiEM’s Faculty Incubator workshop. [ML]

The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care

• The REVIVE trial looking at the effects of a rehabilitation programme following a spell on intensive care is reviewed by the Bottom Line this week. [SO]

The Best of #FOAMres Resuscitation

• If you’re not already doing so, it’s time to embrace US guided femoral lines in cardiac arrest. [AS]
• Is intubation harmful in cardiac arrest? Scancrit give their take on a recent JAMA article. Is it the tube or the positive pressure that is the problem? [SO]

The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound

• Ultrasound and disco combine in this excellent post on recognising VFib in cardiac arrest using POCUS, thanks to Sonospot! [SO]

The Best of Medical Education and Social Media

• Incredible post from Josh Farkas explaining why sensitivity and specifity are not only not helpful but can be misleading and why we need to focus on likelihood ratios instead. [AS]
• Is it okay to openly critique a presenters slides or presentation? Ross Fisher says absolutely yes but listen to the why here. [AS]

News from the Fast Lane

• Check out what’s new amongst the 1,650+ pages of the Critical Care Compendium in CCC Update 014 [CN]

Reference Sources and Reading List

• Emergency Medicine and Critical Care blog/podcast list
• LITFL Global Blogroll
• FOAMEM RSS feed syndication for global FOAM
• #FOAMed – #FOAMcc – #FOAMres #FOAMped – #FOAMtox – #FOAMus – #FOAMim – #FOANed

Brought to you by:

• Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM:RAP, Core EM,REBEL EM and The Teaching Institute)
• Chris Connolly [CC] (RCEMFOAMed, FOAMShED)
• Chris Nickson [CN] ( iTeachEM, RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
• Jesse Spurr [JS] (Injectable Orange, Simulcast, The Teaching Institute)
• Marjorie Lazoff [ML] (TandemHealth)
• Mat Goebel [MG]
• Salim Rezaie [SR] (REBEL EM, The Teaching Institute)
• Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast, The Bottom Line)

Last update: Jun 26, 2017 @ 6:39 am

LITFL Review 287
Marjorie Lazoff, MD

Article source here:Life in the Fast Lane