💥🆕“Society of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for Evaluating New Fever in Adult Patients in the ICU”
Our new guideline is published⬇️
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👇Free Access
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Share the facts on #COVID19vaccines & #myocarditis:
❤️ Heart health is safer with the vaccine, despite the rare risk of myocarditis https://t.co/7c5fPnpgWh
📄 20 studies that Internal Medicine Residents should read in the first year 👇
1/ 🏃♀️ RACE II trial: Lenient resting HR < 110 was non-inferior to a strict HR < 80 in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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How much do hospitals receive from the government to train residents?
It depends. There are multiple funding streams and the formulae are complicated.
But here, a consulting firm did the math...
…and estimated that, in 2019, the average Medicare subsidy was $145,435/resident.
Check out latest ATS quick hits “Under Pressure”
75 yo F with COVID-19. Intubated in MICU followed by shock requiring multiple pressors. LA > 12 & PaO2:FiO2 ratio of 80. ECG:S1Q3T3 & T wave inversion V1 & V2. Poll⬇️
POCUS: Parasternal long & short axis & Apical 4 chamber views
New ARDS definition🫁
What's new👇
1⃣HFNO ≥30 L/m
2⃣SpO2/FiO2 ≤315 & SpO2 ≤97
3⃣Ultrasound diagnosis of bilateral opacities
4⃣Consideration for resource-limited settings
But it's hard to know the consensus process from one-page abstract🤔
🔗https://t.co/zsLB5GY2XT
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Music 🎶 to my ears…no urine cultures are needed in asymptomatic patients… even if immunocompromised… Utility of urine cultures during febrile neutropenia workup in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients without urinary symptoms https://t.co/zA0QA7Y2Az
#Etomidate and mortality in critically ill patients
Etomidate is a common induction agent but controversy exists about its effects on outcomes
Our meta-analysis found a high probability that etomidate increases mortality (NNH 31)
🧵Thread 1/6 🔗https://t.co/50NLXDPqWR #FOAMcc
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are the gold standard for evidence-based healthcare decision-making.
Here are 6 systematic review and meta-analysis courses you can audit for FREE! 🧵
#Ibrexafungerp is a first-in-class, triterpenoid antifungal agent used to treat vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), and to reduce the incidence of recurrent VVC in adults and adolescent females
It is not active against Fusarium.
https://t.co/c3LuaG5WlU
Great summary of the current therapies, love the stepwise approach, good up to date teaching paper also applicable to other immunosuppressed pts:How I treat and prevent COVID-19 in patients with hematologic malignancies and recipients of cellular therapies https://t.co/NSiIHgonXa