Critical Care
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A Tweetorial (rant?) about the PaO2/FiO2 ratio in critical care. (thanks to @laveenamunshi and @caseypark for some input during our discussions on rounds today)... 1/5
I. LOVE. YOU. The way my dying patients wife spoke those words took my breath away. The pause between each word. The emphasis on each word as though willing him to feel the...
1/ Your patient that is “over breathing” the vent may still be dead by brain criteria. A #tweetorial #medtweetorial for providers in #criticalcare #EM #neuro #neurocriticalcare....
ICU stories: Starting a night shift and knowing very little about the pt, I walked in the room (eldelrly, POD #2 "heart surgery", on the vent + on HD) and I saw this on the monitor...
1/ Do data support pt trial off sedation for “SAT” when pt is comfortable on current dose? Yes Shared w permission: “Dr. Ely, yesterday our ICU #nurses went over #A2Fbundle in Ep...
1/9 For #ICUproviders, #neurologyresidents and other providers that don't do brain death testing on the regular, a quick #tweetortial on optimizing your patient! (My first #tweetor...
Dr. Cook begins her #CCC50 Lifetime Achievement Award talk with reflection on her own 1st presentation ever as an #ICU fellow- at an @SCCM Congress! She was struck by the interprof...
"On small numbers and large problems" Imagine that in a given country every day, every 100000 people we admit to an ICU bed 1 patient with pneumonia requiring invasive mechanical v...
1/ There are clinically relevant differences between #COVID19 #Sepsis & typical bacterial sepsis, but they are Quantitative rather than Qualitative. That is, all clinicians have se...
This thread for people who are interested in CRRT and critical care 😓🤦🏽♂️
💊💊Will tackle the literatures for one of the sedatives💉💉in the upcoming Friday thread. Please vote for your team 💪🏻
Keep your eyes on Vent. waveform, you might need to change the tube despite theraputic anticoagulation. Commonly seen in #COVID19 patients. #CriticalCare #Ventilators #ICU https:/...
It's possible in the coming days that specialists may be called upon to help out our critical care colleagues, so I thought I'd share a few tips for my fellow ophthalmologists on h...
Will keep the learning process in ICU rolling! Tonight I’ll write a thread about top 20 important critical care trials in my opinion that any interns/ residents should understand b...
Let's do some ACID-BASE in ICU.... #ESICMphysio #FOAMed **TWEETORIAL** Dr Duska talks to us about conundrums in ICU. https://t.co/ql1WW1bitD