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If - yesterday - you found interesting my recertification journey in Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), please help me read the modules and answer some additional questio...
ICU - Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) Secrets: Did you ever admit to the ICU a patient with COPD exacerbation who came from the ED on NIV? Or who went home on NIV? If you are a pul...
🔴⏬Recurrent Polymorphic VT/Torsades de Pointes - Management Algorithm⤵️ 🔹First line: magnesium sulfate • Adult load: 2-4 gm over 10-15 minutes • Adult infusion after load:...
ICU Nephrology Secrets: 1. The definition of insanity* is to give bolus iv 40 mg of Lasix (furosemide) without seeing any effect and then starting Lasix drip at 10 mg/hr hoping fo...
ICU Hemodynamic Secrets: You have probably seen this excellent study by @siddharth_dugar @AbhiDuggalMD (retrospective cohort study comprising all 3,151 adult patients admitted to...
ICU ID Secrets (following up on my post* from last week): Ten things to remember about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) nasal swa...
🧵 Thread: Enzyme (CYT P-450) Inducers & Inhibitors for USMLE! 📚💊 1️⃣ Understanding enzyme inducers and inhibitors is crucial for the USMLE! Let's break it down with easy mnemonics...
ICU stories (a boring one...) This is a story that everybody working in an ICU will see several times/month. It's so common it deserves a separate textbook chapter. Its title: "Th...
1/One important aspect to stroke care is well, ASPECTS! Here’s a #tweetorial to help you remember this basic #STROKE scoring system. #medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMrad #medstudenttwitt...
1/Is remembering cerebellar anatomy making you dizzy? Need help telling your flocculus from your nodule? Here’s some help, w/an #anatomy #tweetorial on the 9 lobules of the verm...
1/Controversy in radiology can get tense! The Mt Fuji sign for tension pnemocephalus is under scrutiny. When should you call it? A #tweetorial about imaging this important #neuro...
1/ If only there was a way to make hippocampal anatomy memorable! Here is a #tweetorial of the basics of hippocampal #anatomy that will hopefully stay in your #hippocampus! #m...