❗️SGLT2i were described a long time ago.
✅They are now popular drugs to treat type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease.
Want to know more? Time for a 🧵
1/20
Literally laughing out loud at the mental image of our porch package thief’s face when they opened up the stolen packages only to find textbooks on public health and cat fountain filters.
Super proud of @EugeneNwankwo1 for discussing how he got his most recent project off the ground with the help of our ASSIST program. Big shout out to @mwschoen @DrBuckholdSLU, @RaviNayakMD and @GkamelMD for helping residents reach their research goals! @im_slu@SLUgastro
Folks, we need to talk about this Vitamin D trial. I have no stake in this game - take Vitamin D if you want but this pre-print is super sus. (THREAD)
https://t.co/QZNp8kOXsv
The biggest irony of home ownership in residency: purposefully buying a house with a garage so I would never have to scrape my car windows in the morning BUT on the two snowiest days of residency I am on night float at the VA without covered parking.
1/9 Started our yearly Critical Appraisal of the Landmark Literature course with the 4th years today (on Zoom, 😬). Seems like a good time for a quick tweetorial on reading RCTs. These are the studies we rely on most in medicine but they can be misleading. What would you add?
1/15
Why can cefepime cause neurological toxicity?
And why is renal failure the main risk factor for this complication?
The answer requires us to learn about cefepime's structure and why it unexpectedly binds to a certain CNS receptor.
#MedTwitter#Tweetorial
1/ Why are hypodermic needles and IV catheters referenced by gauge numbers?
And why does the needle diameter get smaller as the gauge number increases?
Let's explore the obscure history of IV sizing in the following #histmed#tweetorial.