Thanks Nida Qadir, MD for this great work!

The prayers for #DamarHamlin are beautiful, but NFL, please also consider spending 2 minutes before tomorrow’s games showing a demo of hands-only #CPR & encouraging viewers to learn. With your audience, this could save lives ❤️🙏🏽 Read on to learn how to do hands-only CPR ⬇️

"The patient already has AKI don't give contrast." Actually it has been studied and giving contrast doesn't make the AKI measurably worse. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New observational study about steroids in septic shock: - analysis of 88,275 people w/ septic shock - adding fludricortisone to hydrocortisone associated w/ lower mortality: 47.2% vs 50.8% (p < 0.001) 📄 jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… Should this change our practice? I think YES! 1/

Had such a great time with mentors and meeting so many amazing colleagues doing such amazing things for our field! ⁦American Thoracic Society (ATS)⁩ ⁦UCLA PCCM⁩ ⁦⁦UCSD Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, & Physiology⁩ ⁦Tisha Wang⁩ ⁦Richard Channick, M.D.⁩ ⁦⁦

Congrats Nida Qadir, MD !

Hydrocortisone + fludrocortisone always 3 reasons: 1️⃣Every RCT that showed a survival advantage used H+F; none of the H alone RCTs did. 2️⃣Multiple large observational studies show survival benefit of H+F over H alone 3️⃣Fludrocortisone is a cheap pill (<$1/day)

ICU Pharmacology Secrets: Some drug side effects, even if relatively rare, are well entrenched in our memory. For example, most intensivists & hospitalists are aware of cefepime-induced neurotoxicity or clindamycin’s association w C difficile infection (or even the seemingly

Wow this is such exciting news for all of our pulmonary patients! Thank you Bernie Sanders !

Second law of medicine= No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. #compassion #empathy

So sad but true and unfortunately hilariously relatable Lawrence Benjamin, MD Christiana Hayward, MD Emily Schwitzer, MD

Massive PE: systemic tPA vs. CDT

Following the latest guideline on antithrombotic therapy for VTE disease, a journal CHEST® Special Feature serves as a unified collection of relevant statements from the preceding 3 guidelines. Read the article in the August issue: hubs.la/Q02LZjN90 #MedEd #JournalCHEST

A RCT for HIGH risk PE? - no way , cant do it , shouldn’t do it , yup we are doing it Robert A Lookstein MD, MHCDL James Horowitz F Mae West, MD MS

🚨🔥NEW EPISODE🔥🚨 Critical Care Time is BACK to talkin’ #PE; covering #CDT, #PERT and more with Dr. Rich Channick - PE expert and past president of The PERT Consortium® ! Thx to Gilad Jaffe, MD for his production help and SeaStarMedical for their continued support! 👇‼️Links Below‼️👇

Was great awesome to catch up with mentor, friend and #aldosterone guru Laboratory of Vivek Bhalla, MD- Stanford!

If you know undergraduates interested in spending time with us for a summer of #KUH , please pass along NIDDK

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One of my favorite UCLA peeps visits SD! Great reunion!