You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving. -P. Kalanithi. #FOAMed#MedEd. Tweets mine. 🇵🇭
My 13 y/o sister asked me about the heart. 20 min later
Me: “If the left ventricle is enlarged, which leads will show an increase in the spike (R)?”
Her: “V4-V6”
Realization: No topic is “too hard,” as long as it is broken down and taught well. Also I am too excited to teach.
A lesson in life.
Call from a colleague today…
“Keith, I’ve got a 80 year old man with jaundice and fever from a large 2cm gallstone wedged in the bile duct. He’s on anticoagulation for PE. I just have a bad feeling about him and I think he needs an ERCP today.”
So alam ko na what the issue is about the PGI… well, sana maalala mo na we all started somewhere, I’m sure di ka pinanganak na perfect mag hx/pe at magendorse… at for sure di ka padin perfect ngayon (dahil kung feeling mo eh perfect ka na, good luck talaga…) ❌❌❌
RENAL LIFECYCLE Trial: Efficacy and safety of dapagliflozin 10 mg vs placebo #Nephpearls
✅ eGFR <25
✅ Patients on dialysis with residual diuresis >500 ml/24-hour
✅ Kidney transplant recipients with an eGFR </=45
📌 PRIMARY ENDPOINT: Composite end point of kidney failure, heart failure hospitalization, or all-cause mortality
#VisualGraphic by @deniise_am
👉 https://t.co/BKKRwUmxla
When I took Step 1 the treatment for heart failure was beta blocker and ACEi. Now it’s BB-ACEi-ARB-ARNI-SGLT2-Ivabradine-ICD-BiV pacer. Students today have to MEMORIZE it all for the test plus the outdated stuff like digoxin. And that’s just one disease. Result=burnout.