CMV in #ICU: be aware!
🩺 pathophysiology
🧫 infection & disease definitions
🔥 reactivation in non-immunocompromised pts
🕯️ CMV in immunocompromised critically ill
⚠️ incidence & risk factors
🔬 presentations & diagnosis
🩺 treatment & prevention
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Awake prone positioning in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure
🔎impact of changes in physiological variables within first 6h of first proning session
🫁relative ⬆️in ROX index + ⬇️ severity scores/⬆️ ROX index associated with ⬇️ risk of IMV and/or death
🔓https://t.co/8OdkAaf5Ga
The Blue Journal thanks Glauco M. Plens, MD, for his contribution to the March 1 issue
Expiratory Muscle Activity Counteracts Positive End-Expiratory Pressure and Is Associated with Fentanyl Dose in Patients with ARDS
@Gicobellani
https://t.co/tryiK88P1G
Expiratory Muscle Activity Counteracts Positive End-Expiratory Pressure and Is Associated with Fentanyl Dose in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Neuromuscular blockade in ARDS makes PEEP more effective
@Gicobellani
🔗 https://t.co/6cOdyqqNL1
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>400 respondents got it wrong 🧐
#POCUS answer: Left pleural effusion. Pericardial effusion wedges anterior to the descending aorta (Ao) & pleural effusion is at/posterior to it, along the chest wall.
Further reading 🔗https://t.co/P0cV2TzEAo
🔗https://t.co/gI3bqQBZ1j
#Nephpearls
ERJ: Anti-IL-5/5Ra therapy leads to a reduction in cumulative oral corticosteroid exposure over a 2-year period. This study suggests that early anti-IL-5/5Ra intervention leads to a better long-term prognosis in patients with severe eosinophilic asthma. https://t.co/yadizfP9P9
New #HistoryOfMedicine from @JoelDHowell@mtlnmd @archives_Rx: From Individualized Interactions to Standardized Schedules: A History of Time Organization in U.S. Outpatient Medicine https://t.co/odGlDtFIE9
🧵on 'French' and 'Gauge'
The 'French' unit of measurement was once known as the 'Charrière', after Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière, a Swiss knifemaker who moved to France in 1820 and became a manufacturer of surgical instruments.
1 Fr = 1/3 mm.
It was renamed because...
Medicine is not just treatments & cures: proximity, simply being with families and bearing witness in times of suffering often mean so much more than we realize. It is a great privilege to share these intimate moments. #FOAMcc#PedsICU#ICMfromtheinside
📎 https://t.co/NVbLcm21iu
Mortality in very old #COVID19 vs non-COVID #ICU pts
⬇️severe illness/frailly at admission - triage??
⬆️aggressive disease trajectory (decisions to limit treatments almost 2x) leading to ⬇️1-month survival
Here full results #FOAMcc https://t.co/nbuMHbRBSl
⬇️Below visual abstract
1/ We just published our full @Cochrane_ACE systematic review and meta-analysis of videolaryngoscopy versus direct laryngoscopy for adults undergoing tracheal intubation.
The full review is here, but first - some of our key takeaways 👇
https://t.co/HxzXhF83ZB
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April 13 15:00 CEST:
#ECMO & infection, when one leads to the other
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🎙moderators: Peter Roeleveld & Jordi Riera del Brio
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@yourICM https://t.co/Agmac4rdb6