"Welcome to the Best of 2015 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.
2015 Best of the Rest
- SMACC Podcast: Healthcare in Hippocrates’ Shadow (David Newman)
- SMACC Podcast: Optimizing Critical Care in the Emergency Department (Sara Gray)
- EMCrit Wee: Mind-blowing cricothyrotomy video (Scott Weingart and Reuben Strayer)
- EM Nerd: The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (Rory Spiegel)
- EM Cases: Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Crisis (Anton Helman)
- The Ultrasound Podcast: The Summer of Failure (Haney Mallemat)
- St. Emlyn’s: JC The REVERT Trial (Rick Body)
- REBEL EM: The 10 Trauma Commandments (Chris Hicks)
- ER Cast: Torsades de Pointes (Rob Orman and Joe Bellezzo)
Honourable mentions:
- Intensive Care Network: Coping with Isolation (Tim Leeuwenberg)
- FOAM Cast: ACEP tPA Clinical Policy (Jeremy Faust, Lauren Westafer and more)
- St. Emlyn’s Podcast: Lessons Learned from the November Paris Attacks (Youri Yordanov)
- REBEL EM: Do Patients with Strep Throat Need to Be Treated with Antibiotics (Anand Swaminathan)
- SMACC: Lessons from the Princess Bride (Amal Mattu)
- EM Nerd: The Case of the Blind Allocator (Rory Spiegel)
- EMCrit: The PROPPR Trial with John Holcomb (Scott Weingart and John Holcomb)
- Intensive Care Network: Lessons from the Cage (Oli Flower)
- Core EM: Aortic Dissection + Syncope (Anand Swaminathan)
- Essentials of EM: Critically Ill Pregnant Patient (Haney Mallemat)
- St. Emlyn’s: JC: Drinking from the Firehose – Keeping Up with the Literature (Natalie May)