#FOAMed Review 17th Edition
Michael Macias
Welcome to the seventeenth edition of the #FOAMed Review! The idea of the FOAMed review is to give you a digestible selection of reliable content from the online EM/CC world that you can fit into your busy weekly schedule. Each review will include highlights from the highest yield blog, podcast, video and web sources around. Over a year's span we will be sure to include topics from all core EM content areas...even the ones that may not be the coolest. Check out our indexing section #FOAMED REVIEW which allows you to view previous weekly reviews by edition or by selecting from CORD curriculum categories.
Onto the FOAMed.
VENTILATOR MANAGEMENT IN COPD [BLOG]: Normal vent settings can kill your COPD patient. Learn some key points on vent management in the COPD patient at EM Docs.
ECHO DOESN'T LIE [LECTURE]: High Yield SMACC GOLD talk at the Intensive blog on pitfalls and pearls in echocardiography for assessing hemodynamics.
THE CASE OF THE ANATOMIC HEART [BLOG]: EM Nerd is at it again with another convincing and eloquent post on the controversial data regarding PCI in 'anatomic' heart disease.
PRIAPISM EMERGENCY [VIDEO]: Larry Mellick with some clinical known how on an increasingly more common issue we see in the ED.
More FOAMed.
TRAUMA
TRAUMA THOUGHTS [PODCAST]: Scott Weingart discusses some big topics in trauma, with John Hinds, including blunt cardiac arrest, impact apnea and central line placement. Don't miss this.
TRAUMA
BLUNT CHEST TRAUMA & THE NEXUS CHEST CT RULE [BLOG]: Great discussion of the NEXUS chest rule ands its validation. Though not specific, this may help reduce the number of CT scans we're obtaining...at least by a few.
METABOLIC DISORDERS
THE MEANING OF ACIDOSIS [PODCAST]: We all need a little help with our acid base thought process. David Story breaks down some complicated topics in acidosis to help us understand.
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
NONSTEMI THAT NEED THE CATH LAB NOW [LECTURE]: Dr. Smith with a brilliant lecture on NSTEMI subtleties that we should pay attention to, which may may need cath lab sooner than later.
See you next week.
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