Erik Petursson MD

Emergency Medicine Doc. EM @ Harbor-UCLA. Former molecular biologist @ UCSD. Triathlete who likes CrossFit and coffee. Icelandic-American 🇮🇸 🇺🇸

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@DocDifferently night clinic ? night rounds ? That would be a first.

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@Hstlinghosptlis @DocDifferently good one

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@DocDifferently Serious question, pan city kaiser isn’t a STEMI center so what does a cardiologist there do at night or weekends?

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@DocDifferently what does a cardiologist do at night ?

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@elonmusk I loved it, but FSD just backed up into a wall and banged up my Cybertruck.. I’m an early FSD adopter, a Cybertruck Foundation Series owner and I have bought full FSD outright on two Tesla vehicles. Tesla won’t help with repair, which makes me feel a certain way.

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@bryan_johnson As an ER doctor that does shift work, I have done this battle many times, Taco Bell has won many battles but not the war.

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@Painfulheal @TiffanyFong That’s just like your opinion man..

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

but honestly malaria is fairly straightforward, there are like 5-6 medicines total to treat it, some more preferable depending on the region you acquired it. Some medicines aren’t readily available at local hospitals but can be acquired from the CDC. It’s not complicated so I don’t understand when you say “staff doesn’t know what to do” . That’s hard to believe. This is stuff even med students are frequently tested on and any ER doctor should be able to easily manage.

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

ER doc here, I had young flight attendant with severe cerebral malaria (worst form) and multi-system organ failure. I called the CDC malaria hotline, my pharmacist then drove herself to LAX to get quite literally the strongest medicine from CDC (not even FDA approved in US) and we saved her life. All in my 10 hour shift. Any competent ER doctor should know what to do, or who to call when they don’t..

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@elonmusk Lisan al-Gaib !!!

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@SantoroSystems @elonmusk You seem poor

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@SakshamSulove @DrAkhilX If pulses present? Clearly you’ve only read about this in books 😂

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@DrAkhilX Adaptogens are good for unstable rhythms, I prefer to use Aschgewanda, 300 mg IV, if unsuccessful, Lions mane PR. CPR can also sometimes be helpful.

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@BioLayne @thegarybrecka Anyone that says anything about nutrition science with absolute conviction should not be trusted…

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@armyemdoc Did the study differentiate between VL vs DL in regards to adverse outcomes? And did the study comment on the experience of intubators? For instance are they trainees? Those numbers seem fairly high, particularly if you have VL as an option..

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@SeeFisch More importantly neither is a shellfish allergy a contraindication to contrast …

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@AlissaMitche11 Pgy-1, checks out… Love the optimism, but let’s circle back in a few years.

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@ross_prager @ArgaizR @NephroP @ThinkingCC @khaycock2 @KiranRikhraj 💯

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@DrToddLee 100 percent agree with that, that’s bad medicine, but in this particular case for instance, reflex UCx did grow >100,000 ecoli couple days later so the patient did have a UTI. My point is sometimes a +UA DOES equal UTI, and sometimes it does not.

[Erik Petursson MD @erikfreyrMD]

@DrToddLee @phlegmfighter Haha well that’s silly, I feel like chronic indwelling catheters always grow some MDR bugs.. seem irrelevant in this case