Emergency Care
33 Threads
(1/x) Want to master hemodynamics in 2025? 🫀🫁 Here's how to integrate organ level perfusion (including considering hemodynamic coherence) into your resuscitation approach. A 🧵
Each year in the USA, more people die of in-hospital drowning than of salt water and fresh water drowning combined ☠️ Here's how to maximize the benefits and minimize harms from I...
The 5 A's of snakebite management include the following components and their mechanisms of action: 1. A - Antivenom: Mechanism of Action: Antivenom neutralizes the venom's tox...
#HeartAttack is a dire life threatening emergency. One needs to be focussed and fast in seeking medical help in order to survive it. Any delay can lead to fatal outcomes. We will...
▪️ ▪️ ▪️ A🧵 on management of hypertensive emergencies. The 𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗛 algorithm for management of hypertensive emergencies and end-organ damage 𝗕 - Brain 𝗔 - Arteries 𝗥 - Retina 𝗞 - K...
A 🧵 on STORMS in medicine. First a question ❓️ PRAZOSIN is helpful in management of which among the following conditions❓️ 💥Electrical storm 💥Cytokine storm 💥Thunderstorm Asthma...
A🧵 on alkali therapy. First a Question❓️ A patient of diabetic ketoacidosis presented in a stupourous state with hypotension. ABG ➡️ pH -7, HCO3 - 9 mEq/L, K-5mmol/L. Along...
Ever been in a situation where your friend started having seizures and you didn’t know what to do? This post teaches what to and what not to do when someone around you starts expe...
1/ A 68 yo woman collapses at a Braves game. Bystander CPR is initiated. AED demonstrates a shockable rhythm, ROSC is achieved after 6 rounds of CPR. She’s found to have a STEMI an...
A patient of diabetic ketoacidosis presented in a stupourous state with hypotension. ABG ➡️ pH -7, HCO3 - 9 mEq/L, K-5mmol/L. Along with other measures a decision was made for alka...
Low platelets 😵 emergency. But when? Patient is actively bleeding. Transfuse platelets irrespectively. Do the further workup after that. Patient is in sepsis. Lactic acid, proca...
You are a #pedsresident in the Emergency room 👶👶 An anxious mother brings her 2 year old child, who has accidentally swallowed a button battery 2 hours back. 😮 How will you proc...
[Thread 1/7] Stay on topic : Male, 63yo, having chest pain for 30min without any effort Initial EKG shows an inferior STEMI (OMI) + conduction impairment of the P wave, compatible...
Which of the following symptoms and signs is most likely present to some degree in many hypertensive emergencies? A. Chest pain B. Global cerebral deficits C. Lethargy D...
1/13 ➡️ REBOA is an exciting "new" therapy for non-compressible torso haemorrhage ➡️ It's used across the world, but without robust evidence ➡️ Does it work? Is it beneficial? ➡️...
36y/o male who went to the hospital emergency room due to sudden SOB. #EPeeps #CardioTwitter Digitized using #PMCardio ❤ https://t.co/x7jePlVg4A
#NeuroPostItPearl #21 1/ Every now and then I'll be on a triage call where a patient is likely peri-herniation and the hypertonic saline or mannitol is "going to come from pharmac...
ICU stories: Eldelry pt w CAD s/p multi-vessel PCI / DM2 / HTN presented to the ED w epigastric "burning". Symptoms much worse with laying down & while eating. No relief w iv famot...
How to help a choking infant! An infant has just choked on a tiny item (even after you had tried to keep it out of their reach), here is what to do. A thread!
You get called to the haemodialysis unit. An 18 yr old man has missed his dialysis all week & today reports weak legs. The dialysis nurse snaps this ECG as he passes out. What do...
Case study : A 48-year-old man with diabetes and he had virus Corona was admitted to the emergency department. He had hypoventilaiom . https://t.co/J9YUJTFdZS
1/🧵 Let’s learn about Ace inh-induced angioedema His lips & tongue swelled up hours after taking a blood pressure med he’d been on 10 years - lisinopril. 📍What’s the treatment?...
ICU stories: Elderly pt w PMHx of CAD/COPD/CKD/DM2/cirrhosis c/b esoph varices + ascites requiring paracentesis (most recent a week earlier)/anemia of chronic dz/”etc” presented to...
1/18 Chest pain is a frequently seen reason for admission. Here's my take on when to consider ACS in patients with chest pain! #MedTwitter #CardioTwitter #MedEd #FOAMed #MedTweetor...
