Nick Mark MD
Intensivist, pulmonologist | Husband, Dad² | made @OnePagerICU @CritCareTime | passionate about MedEd & MedTech innovation | https://t.co/XoJT2T5cFV
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Here’s a critical care puzzle & illustrates some important cardiopulmonary physiology: These two pictures were taken just an hour apart. What intervention was done in between that...
Ok so it’s a vague question, but Elon’s answer is just boneheaded & further obliterates the myth that’s he’s an “engineering genius” A 🧵 with a few examples of “electric rockets”...
Prediction: this tweet will cost $TSLA investors several billion dollars. https://t.co/IcQ8TwWSwy
A man comes to the ICU after uncomplicated cardiac surgery. He is hypertensive and a nicardipine infusion is started. 10 minutes later he becomes hypoxemic. A chest radiograph is o...
New #ACTIV6 results: high dose ivermectin (600 mcg/kg x 6 days) does NOT improve outcomes in COVID19 - n=1206 outpatients randomized to IVM vs placebo - no difference in time to re...
Why do I care about people having the right to use public data sources like ADS-B? Two reasons: 1. I firmly believe that public datasets can help people. I’ve used public data to...
Here's a physiology case that *everyone* who touches a ventilator needs to understand: A 60 yo woman is intubated for hypoxemia from multifocal pneumonia. She has a SpO2 of 89% o...
Important ICU teaching case: A woman with AL amyloidosis presents with hemorrhagic shock from a GI bleed. HR 130, BP 80s/40s, Hb 4.5. She’s been receiving CyBorD-Dara chemotherapy...
This is incremental. During my undergrad @BrownUniversity I remember when researchers did this in *humans*: A man with quadriplegia controlled a computer or robotic limb using a...
Here’s an ECG with a pathognomonic finding that everyone ought to know, especially at this time of year. https://t.co/kiSX1rMfst
Here’s a fun ICU puzzle: what is causing this crazy spiking pattern on the ECG waveform of both an intra-aortic balloon pump & ICU monitor? A #MedEd 🧵 on an important clinical art...
Thousands have made the jump from #MedTwitter to #MedMastodon! One issue I’ve heard is “I can’t get the app to work” or “I can’t find the server” Good news: there are many mobile...