➡️ The act of breathing has always held a mythical place in human psychology
➡️ Our first breath signals the beginning of life, & the last, death
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Did you know that normal lung water is 600 ml and another extra 300ml is enough to create wet lungs and poor oxygenation. Putting this in perspective to the surface of alveoli this would be like pouring a pint on a tennis court 🎾
#ardstalk@iceman_ex@ventilacionmeca@some4mv
Today's Paper of the Day is by En-Pei Lee on hemodynamic monitoring and management of pediatric septic shock
https://t.co/JKgcYjlUQ5
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🚩 Observational study of low titer group O whole blood vs blood component resuscitation
➡️ 1,051 hemorrhagic shock patients
➡️ Similar mortality at 24 hrs & 28 days
➡️ With ⬆️ prehospital risk: ⬇️ mortality at 4-hr (48%) & 28-day (30%) with whole blood
https://t.co/Sp06oA6IDG
Efter to fremragende oplæg af de kloge mennesker @IdaDonkin og @OveGaardboe er der nu livlig debat. For hvordan sikrer vi at vælge - og vælge fra - på en klog måde, og hvordan skaber vi rum til den svære men vigtige sidste samtale? Tak! #dkpol#sundpol
You can't use ChatGPT for a literature review - it makes up references.
Use Scite Assistant instead. It replies like an academic and only cites real papers.
Here is how and when to use it:
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Fact #1:
In the "average" patient, a dose of 100 mg iv furosemide is safer than 1 liter iv crystalloids
Fact #2:
In every patient, a dose of 100 mg iv furosemide is ALWAYS safer than 1 liter iv crystalloids
#POCUS
Inferior Vena Cava Ultrasonography for Volume Status Evaluation: An Intriguing Promise Never Fulfilled https://t.co/O1icnPr0CW #mdpijcm via @JCM_MDPI
Do you consider metabolic alkalosis from a traditional or a physiochemical approach?
Read our #BJAEd article on acid base disturbances in critical care by @DASidebotham and Dr Park
#Anaesthesia#CriticalCare@yourICM@ICS_updates
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For you "procalcitonin will tell me if this is aspiration pneumonitis or pneumonia" people, here's some new, very limited case control-type data that they may correlate. Take with various grains of salt. #medtwitter https://t.co/7bjYSRbasv
Jeg har støttet dette borgerforslag om at beskytte børn mod digital manipulation. Jeg tænker, at det indebærer, at de i fremtiden ikke udsættes for reklamefilm for børnevaccinationer, mens de spiller spil eller ser video på nettet🙄https://t.co/HLVpcXr3Uo
Lots of good information in a 5 sec clip, I can see three elements that tell me that the patient is not Fluid Tolerant from a pulmonary standpoint as well as a splanchnic standpoint. Takers? @AndromedaShock@ArgaizR@khaycock2