A case everyone needs to know:
A man admitted for CHF exacerbation is normoxic on ambient air. POCUS shows bilateral pleural effusions.
He develops Afib w/ RVR (HR 150s). A med is given. Suddenly he develops hypoxemia (SpO2 84% on NC, 94% on NRB).
What med & what happened?
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If a patient is in ICU and needs renal replacement therapy, does it matter if they choose to use CRRT or IHD first?
For an answer have a look at this paper... https://t.co/mncNIUp81d
The classification of penetrating neck trauma location has three zones & I've always had trouble remembering whether it goes upwards or downwards from I-III
The way I remember it is that the top one that goes up to the ear is III because you can see a '3' in some people's ears
new study provides more evidence that hypothermia after cardiac arrest is dead and should not be resuscitated. 🧟♂️
(background reviewed here:
https://t.co/GZbpgHXWoD)
UPenn study shows that vanc-piptazo ⬆️ *creatinine* but actually causes a trend towards ⬇️Cystatin C. this dissociation between Cr vs. renal biomarker implies that piptazo is a pseudonephrotoxin that ⬇️ Cr secretion, w/o hurting the kidney (1/2) @Miano81
https://t.co/Zta5bC7K1v
A reminder of one of the most beautiful etymologies out there: the 'pupil' of the eye is named after the Latin 'pupilla', little doll' - because when we look into the eyes of another, we see a tiny, doll-like reflection of ourselves.
twitter is arguing again about airway meds, ultrasonography, and cerebral salt wasting. nature is healing.
ps- I think cerebral salt wasting is real, but it needs a better name (central aldo deficiency?). both AHA/ACC and NCS guidelines rec fludrocort https://t.co/Vg3YCJh0zB
When a patient requests to drink cold ice water before removing high-flow nasal cannula (to withdraw life support), that will be the last one in his life.
- Don't thicken it.
- Make sure he gets what he wants.
- Don't ask anybody. It won't take long. Go get it by yourself.
I want to share a pre-print detailing findings in a prospective convenience sample of people suffering from dyspnea post-COVID.
The main findings are that we can detect lung perfusion disturbances by using MRI 4- 13 months after non-hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Here's a talk by Jessica Kåhlin about the fundamentals of oxygen sensing in the perioperative and intensive care setting. Enjoy! https://t.co/Yneq6rkFEv