The LITFL Review 118

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 118th 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 Dammit, EMCrit continues it’s mortgage on the ‘Ripper of the Week’ spot with Think You Understand Fluids–Cause I don’t have a grasp yet. The reason that this gets here is not because I love the glycocalyx (though I do — it is the basis of such a fascinating hypothesis) but because this is what FOAM is all about. A semi-retired critical care doc from India leaves a comment on one of Weingart’s podcasts, and delivers such a concise,  note-worthy synthesis of the revised Starling approach to fluid flux across capillary beds using the glycocalyx model that it just has to become its own EMCrit post. Love it! [CN] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine Tim Leeuwenburg provides us with an excellent short sharp review on all aspects of ETCo2 monitoring in So mu...
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