Ten cognitive check points (general rules or heuristics to help guide my practice) I use in the ICU to help make sure I don't get too far off track. A thread🧵👇
1/10: Shock with a narrow pulse pressure (<30mmHg) needs an urgent #POCUS (or echo) to identify occult RV/LV failure, obstructive shock, or severe hypovolemia.
#medtwitter #foamed #echofirst #pocus #MedEd #medicine #FOAMcc
“For the 20 years that we worked together before anybody knew about us or cared it was literally the two of us sitting side by side at a bench and working together.
Usually at 3 or 5am we would be emailing each other with new ideas.”
- 2023 medicine laureate Drew Weissman on his partnership with his co-laureate Katalin Karikó.
Keep an eye out for our telephone interview with Weissman, coming soon!
In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards. Most of them were comatose & dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Others were being placed on extremely strict diets, which inevitably led to starvation.