EM trained @ Cook County. Critical Care trained @ UW Seattle. Tweets = my own opinions. Exploring communication & education in EM and Crit Care! she/her/hers
I think one of the biggest lies we were told in medical school is that the lungs and the urinary tract are sterile... I guess lung and urine microbiomes were not a thing yet...
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I’ve stopped tweeting much about phenobarb for EtOH withdrawal because I’m convinced it’s awesome - so the topic is boring to me at this point.
switching from benzos to PB has been a major improvement in patient care I’ve seen during my career (#1/4)
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Fluid management for sepsis-induced hypotension in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease: a secondary analysis of the CLOVERS trial
Read the full article: https://t.co/rdtAjeTBJc
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EMCrit 377 - Breaking News - The PREOXI Trial changes everything for Preoxygenation in Intubations in the Critically Ill! I interview the lead authors and give my RECs.
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I've been advocating for this for years and now we have a beautiful trial...
https://t.co/xvLuUXCiPm
Interesting paper about peripheral vs central vasopressors in real world sepsis treatment (I LOVE a Sankey diagram):
- wide variation by hospital
- equivalent outcomes
- most received PIV pressors at 6 hrs
- most who still required pressors at day 4 had a CVC (3% still used PIV?)
Angiotensin II in the ICU
After ANGII became commercially available, evidence has been accumulated regarding the renin-angiotensin system in critically ill patients.
World-leading researchers on that topic have summarized what's known & unknown here👇
https://t.co/IRykGS5dRQ