#Patients

During my 6 month ACT/public psychiatry rotation in residency, I had a patient go to jail. Our ACT team continues to visit and support patients in prison. I managed to
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Now that folks have had a chance to digest the two reports on in-hospital cardiac arrest in COVID patients, let’s break them down. Starting with the British study.https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3513 First, a
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Today's Experience-If any patients is very serious + they have some external issue like sugar or BP they should be monitored for oxygen every 30min ystrd same mistake was done
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So Trump is now also receiving dexamethasone. @WHO guidelines very clear that it is to be used only “in patients with severe and critical #COVID19”. Guidelines incl. “conditional recommendation not
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Questions @whpresscorps must ask when Trump touts hydroxychloroquine like its cough drops:1. What dosage should people take?2. How long should people take it?3. What studies are you relying on for
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The use of ventilators are crucial to the care of people with lung failure - one of the complications suffered by patients with severe cases of COVID-19 https://reut.rs/2RVKVBq  1/8 With
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Just spoke to maybe the top ICU doc in Tampa Bay about which patients are still dying (50-70 a day) in FL and he said “it’s mostly 50 year olds
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Are we racist in healthcare? Here’s some evidence about racial bias in pain management (THREAD):#medtwitter #BlackLivesMatter 1/ A 20 year meta-analysis and systematic review revealed black patients were 22%
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Today I #PassTheMic to Dr. Martin Dedicoat to talk to us about #COVID19 & how we can defeat it together. You should listen, he’s an Infectious Diseases Consultant at University
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Copied from a friend:From my physician Brother In Law.Repost from another group. Interesting read."I am an ER MD in New Orleans. Class of 98. Every one of my colleagues have
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Has anybody ever told you "that can't be right" when you told them about your difficulties navigating healthcare/benefits/etc? it's so pervasive. Like:me in 2017: most days I can't stop shaking
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As an Advanced Paramedic in #Ireland I have a few thoughts about the way we are dealing with the #COVID19ireland.In no particular order of importance (serious and funny... hopefully) these
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I’ve been waiting for this day I knew these memes would be useful one day Just imagine seeing patients all day then you come into noon conference and everyone repping
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Really interesting (follows up on the case of two sets of brothers with severe COVID-19)https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/hidden-immune-weakness-found-14-gravely-ill-covid-19-patients We produce interferons in response to infections.
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1/ We recently had a patient on service with B/l lower extremity edema with inflammation which was considered to be cellulitis and received antibiotics. This definitely made for some great
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1/ Why are children safe?"Fetal hemoglobin that binds oxygen more strongly than adult hemoglobin saves children (and sickle-cell patients where it persists longer) from heme-binding (O2 sequestering) proteins of anaerobic
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