Emergency medicine is a lifestyle, not just a job.
You’ll see the sickest patients, the worst luck, and the darkest corners of humanity—& still be expected to smile, move fast, and get it right every time. A thread on what they don’t tell you about EM. 🧵
In 2022, asymptomatic bacteriuria is still over-treated!
To help stewards reduce urine culturing and unnecessary treatment for ASB, I made this pilot list of common rebuttals with links to evidence. Would you use this? What would you add?
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Interested in a rewarding but challenging EM PGY2?
🚁 Level 1 trauma
🚑 60K+ visits
🏥 High admission rate
👩🏼⚕️ Amazing preceptors (Rx and MD!)
👧🏽 Attached comprehensive children’s hospital
📝 Unlimited teaching/precepting opportunities @UIPharmacy
We’d love to meet you!
Come check out our PGY2 EM Pharmacy Residency Program at our virtual open house 11/3 and 11/18. Meet our amazing EM pharmacy team and of course our wonderful PGY2 resident @MorganneSindel1. Hope to see you there!
@accpemedprn @ASHP_EMPharm
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Everyone is out here complaining about what their profession is referred to as, while pharmacists are out here still happily responding to
“Hey, you’re pharmacy right?”
#TwitteRx
No difference in anaerobic infections in severe aspiration community-acquired pneumonia vs CAP with aspiration risk factors: https://t.co/uX7gHsgLqH
#journalCHEST
Just 8 years ago, we saw a ton of backlash against expanding pharmacist provided immunizations
Now, pharmacist provided immunizations will end this pandemic
A reminder that the turf wars in medicine are more about power than they are about helping patients
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Our ED Pharmacy Team is working 24/7 so they can play a key role on the Covid Airway Team, getting critically ill patients exactly the right meds, exactly when they need them.
Proud to work with @bfaine1@EMcPharmD@annezepeski
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Taught the @Iowa_EM residents about the evidence behind the mngmt of DKA with a dating app-themed presentation. Initial IV insulin bolus? Swipe left. Sodium bicarb? Swipe left.
SQ basal insulin earlier to facilitate a more flexible transition off the infusion? I’ll swipe right.