Respiratory diseases
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Why do we need to target a lower SpO2 in patients with COPD? - A mini thread 🧵 (1/7) https://t.co/xz1181bYjt
ICU stories: Pt w "severe COPD" (ex-smoker; FEV1 30%) / chronic hypoxic-hypercapnic resp failure on 2-4 l/m O2 @ home / diastolic HF / HTN / HLD was brought to the ED due to "alter...
A patient with #cirrhosis and hepatic hydrothorax was admitted to an ICU 3 times for severe shortness of breath and hypoxia for urgent thoracentesis and diuretics So we put in an...
Teaching and learning points from this case scenario: • No all progressively worsening dyspnea is COPD • COPD requires risk factors, symptoms and post bronchodilator FEV1/FVC <...
🧵on basic #inhaler technique b/c we can all do better educating our #copd #asthma patients 🫁 Studies show inhaler error is common & many pts aren’t taught how to use their inhaler...
Updated 🧵 on pathophysiology of COVID-19: We have had numerous descriptive studies, highlighting what we "see" as different in this disease. Examples include measurements and evol...
1. #GlobalHealth My #ACC21 talk in disparities in global health socioeconomic status important driver of CV and total mortality. Even in UK, excess mortality ⬆️with ⬆️years of life...
This is the chest imaging of a 80M Korean veteran with COPD and chronic smoking who presents with a 2 month history of increasing productive cough, dyspnea and low grade fever. Wh...
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...
