Sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a pericardial effusion is causing tamponade... patient has a HR of 110 and a SBP of 85/50. Is this tamponade? (see next for poll) #medtwitter#echofirst#CardioTwitter#pocus#foamed
Patient with hypotension and dyspnea requiring intubation with brief peri-intubation cardiac arrest. #POCUS post arrest shows the following: what is the most likely etiology? (see next for poll) #echofirst#medtwitter#CardioTwitter
Our next most-cited article of 2020-2021 is this brief communication from Dr Cravedi and Mothi et al., "COVID-19 and kidney transplantation: Results from the TANGO International Transplant Consortium" https://t.co/hEoGshg2Bq
Huge @CDCMMWR study
Out of 1.3 million people fully vaccinated (12/2020-10/2021)
2,246 acquired covid
Of these…
24 (1.1%) admitted to ICU & survived
36 died (1.6%) - 78% had ≥4 risk factors, 15 were DNR
No one without risk factors had severe covid
https://t.co/OJdjGJl7Ve
Brandon Vaughn from Pine Knot, Kentucky is critically ill from COVID and on ECMO b/c his lungs are permanently damaged from the virus. Without a double-lung transplant he won't survive. He is 17. https://t.co/2VkuJN3KsC
And last but not least - this fantastic oral abstract - Renal Graft Outcomes in Simultaneous Kidney-Heart Transplant Recipients: Analysis of the UNOS Database from 1987-2018 - @krishnaadit@hetpatel2006@NikhilRenal and Dr. Francesca Cardarelli
Great job Dr. Pawar and team! Important to show how SOFA score performs in different infections. Check out the difference in observed mortality between different infections in higher SOFA quartiles.
In this RCT, a combination of hydrocortisone, ascorbic acid, and thiamine (the HAT or Marik protocol) did not statistically significantly reduce SOFA score or mortality within 72 hours of enrollment among patients with septic shock https://t.co/cuB6X4fJhi