The LITFL Review 117

The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. Welcome to the 117th edition, brought to you by: Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and Chris Nickson [CN] from LITFL, iTeachEM and SMACC The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week The Ripper award this week goes to ScanCrit and their blogpost Percutaneous trackies not so safe after all… — a Crit Care systematic review has has the hard numbers and identifies risk factors for trache badness: low tracheostomy site, not using fibrescope guidance, coagulopathy, previous surgery or radiotherapy to the neck, obesity or abnormal anatomy, malpositioned cannula and high cuff pressure.  A great follow-up to their previous post on the Tracman RCT. BTW, how do you spell ‘trache / trachy/ trackie?’ [CN, BT] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Graded Assertiveness is a ‘to the point’ post by Ian Miller at The Nurse Path — everyone needs to know this. Communication is everything. [CN] When the Lex speaks, the wise emergency physician listens....
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs