Hydrocortisone in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia
➡️ 800 pts
➡️ IV hydrocortisone 200 mg daily for 4 or 8 days or placebo
➡️ D28 mortality: 6.2% vs 11.9% (difference, −5.6%; 95% CI, −9.6 to −1.7; P=0.006)
CCR Journal Watch
https://t.co/Sp06oA6IDG
Please stop ordering nebs on your patients who don’t have obstructive lung disease! SO much work for RTs, and then the patients who actually need them scheduled q4 aren’t able to get them.
I look forward to #CHEST2022 in Nashville and understand moving it at this point is impossible
I am signing this letter urging @accpchest leadership to commit to NOT holding future conferences/leadership meetings in states that limit reproductive freedom
https://t.co/CGCl0FdxRm
💠@WesElyMD and @DrDaleNeedham want you to think daily in the ICU about what you can be doing (or removing!) to keep your patients awake, mobile, and oriented to prevent PICS‼️
The 1st step is learning about PICS. Listen now
🔗➡️https://t.co/ouxDpPEd4B
See our infographics⬇️
#Paxlovid data now in @NEJM & the results are impressive:
- n=2246 high risk outpts randomized to paxlovid vs placebo
- 0.77% hospitalization with paxlovid vs 7.0% in placebo (NNT 16); 0 deaths in paxlovid group vs 7 w/ placebo
- this is a big deal!
📄 https://t.co/nx2qZnBZ4H
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Excited to see one of our @JHospMedicine Editorial Fellows, @blairgolden w/an editorial out this month exploring the question: "What makes a good clinical note?"
https://t.co/HPKR5TeEtg
Can't forget to mention co-authors Michelle Kelly, and JHM Mentor @andrewolsonmd
Don’t forget to check ionized calcium levels on patients receiving significant blood products. The traditional 1gm per 4 units will likely not cut it. 🎩 tip to the authors.
https://t.co/4Ise540F2X
“There is simply not an acceptable number of child deaths when such effective and safe preventive treatments are available. So, for the same reason pediatricians recommend seatbelts and car seats, we are recommending vaccines for Covid.”
#GetVaccinated
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