Free Open Access Meducation (FOAM)

What is FOAM?

Here is a great summary of what FOAM is from LITFL

Search Tools

• Google FOAM – searches FOAM sites for matching content
• SCGH Library Databases – for Journal References (needs login)
• Trip Database – Medical search engine with emphasis on evidence based medicine (EBM) and clinical guidelines and queries, including content from Cochrane and Bandolier
• FindZebra – This website collates thousands of articles describing rare diseases and then joins them together on a searchable database. You simply type your patient’s symptoms into the search box and press ‘search’.

Overview of current quality FOAM content

• LITFL Review – 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 (produced by our very own Kane Guthrie)

General EM FOAM sources

• LITFL
• Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Blogroll
• EMCrit
• Resus.ME
• Emergency Medicine Updates
• StEmylns
• PHARM
• Broome Docs
• First10EM
• EMRAP
• ALiEM
• EM Literature of Note
• Resus.com.au
• Resus Review
• Better in Emergency Medicine
• Al Sacchetti’s Youtube
• UMEM Educational Pearls
• Dave on Airways
• The Flipped EM Classroom
• HQmeded.com
• The Bottom Line – This site is part of the Wessex ICU website and contains “A compendium of all the landmark papers which are shaping the way we manage our critically ill patients. Each paper has been summarised and critiqued using a standard template and ends with a ‘bottom line’ paragraph to allow a quick reminder of the key points.”
• Critical Care Reviews – Critical Care Reviews is a free, not-for-profit, educational critical care resource run by Rob Mac Sweeney, an intensivist in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The site offers many resources, including a journal watch facility, weekly newsletter, the largest structured collection of accessible critical care review articles on the internet, links to major studies and guidelines, as well as links to free vodcasts, podcasts, and a vast array of societies, groups and websites. Continuing Professional Development articles are provided, as are links to exam resources.

Trauma

• TRAUMA.ORG
• The Trauma Professional’s Blog
• Ortho Bullets
• Closing the Gap Website educational site dedicated to improving expertise of both novice and experienced health care practitioners dealing with acute wound care.

Paediatrics

• Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) Guidelines & Calculators
• Children’s Antimicrobial Mx (ChAMP) Guidelines
• Kids Health WA Paediatric Calculators
• Pediatric EM Morsels
• PEM ED
• PEMLit
• PEMTweets Blog
• Empem.org

Toxicology

• ToxTalk
• The Poison Review
• Toxinz via SCGH Library (need to use your hospital login)
• Therapeutic Guidelines via SCGH Library (need to use your hospital login)
• LITFL Tox Library

Ultrasound

• LITFL Ultrasound library
• Ultrasound Village
• SonoSpot: Topics in Bedside Ultrasound
• Ultrasoundpodcast.com
• Ultrarounds
• Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
• NYSORA – New York School of Regional Anaesthesia – US guided nerve blocks
• Ultrasound of the week
• Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Group Sydney

Cardiology

• Heart Auscultation 

 ECG

• LITFL ECG Library
• Steve Smith’s ECG Blog
• ECG Academy
• ECG Guru

Blood Gas Analysis

• Acid Base Online Tutorial (from the University of Conneticut)
• Acid-Base Physiology

Procedural

• NYSORA – New York Scho0l of Regional Anaesthesia – US guided nerve blocks
• EMProcedures
• Procedurettes
• Emergent Procedures
• Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, Roberts & Hedges – via SCGH Library (login required)
• EDECMO – The ED ECMO Project is the work of 3 resuscitationists to bring extracorporeal life support to EDs and ICUs around the world. This site aims to be the ultimate resource for the background, logistics, and evidence for resuscitative ECMO.

Medical Equipment

• Equipment for Dummies
• Capnography – use and interpretation

Clinical Media / Presentation

• Medical Education Videos

Intensive Care / Retrieval

• LITFL – Critical Care Compendium by Jeremy Fernando & Chris Nickson
• Intensive Care Network
• ICU Rounds
• EMCrit with Scott Weingart
• Wellington ICU education resources
• Greater Sydney HEMS

Radiology

• Radiology Signs
• Radiopaedia
• C-Spine Interpretation – University of Virginia
• C-Spine Imaging – Harvard Medical School
• Thoracolumbar Imaging
• CXR Interpretation – University of Virginia
• Neuroradiology – Thomas Jefferson University
• Paediatric Radiology – image gallery
• X-Ray Risk Calculator – as the name suggests
• Diagnostic Imaging Pathways WA DOH
• Radiology Assistant (The Netherlands)

Numbers/Stats in the ED

• The NNT
• SMART EM
• BestBets
• Practical Evidence

Neurology

• Neurology Examination

Dermatology

• Dermatology NZ

Opthalmology

• Opthalmology videos
• NSW Eye Emergency Manual
• OphthoBook.com – free online ophthalmology book (by Dr Tim Root)
• RootAtlas.com – an online atlas of ocular findings (by Dr Tim Root)

Infectious Diseases

• STD’s – WA DOH guidelines for Mx