Happy #NationalDoctorsDay! 🩺 Thank you for your unwavering dedication to keeping us all healthy and safe. Please retweet to show your appreciation and tag a doctor who has made a difference in your life.

Grateful for the past 5 years of growth and learning at @akuglobal. A special thanks to my family, friends and mentors for their belief and constant support. Alhamdulillah for everything🙏

Join us in welcoming our new interns for the Department of Medicine's 2024 Match Day! We are so excited to have such talented and dedicated individuals joining our team, and can't wait to see what they will accomplish. 👏🎉 #2024MatchDay #BCMDoM

The Texas Heart Institute, BiVACOR, Baylor St. Luke’s, and Baylor College of Medicine celebrate the first human implantation of the Total Artificial Heart! This device offers new hope for patients with severe heart failure. 🌟🤝 #BCMDoM #BCM Read more: buff.ly/3YvsAOS

Empiric inpatient antibiotic selection simplified: 3 things to know as a start 1. Ceftriaxone has an impressive spectrum 2. What's up with "vancopeme"? Vanc targets MRSA. Cefepime is CTX + pseudomonas. 3. Which remaining holes metro and doxy cover

Closing out Block 2 feeling incredibly humbled!! BCM IM Residency BCM Department of Medicine

Outpatient pulm: let’s figure out how we can get you coughing less. Inpatient pulm: let’s figure out how we can get you coughing more.

#TBT to our #BeyondJournalClub episode on the CAPE COD Trial: steroids in community acquired pneumonia 🔑 takeaways: - Steroids appear to benefit patients who are: ◦Sick with severe pneumonia  ◦More inflamed (higher CRP) 🖥️: coreimpodcast.com/2023/12/06/do-…

Congratulations to our residents on an outstanding fellowship match!! Excited for many to stay around, many to branch out, and for all to have wonderful experiences as they continue their training.

1/ 🚨 NEW #BeyondJournalClub with NEJM Group: REVISE Trial Do PPIs reduce the risk of clinically important upper GI bleeding? ⤵️ 🖥️: coreimpodcast.com/2024/12/11/str… Sponsor: @FreedMedicalAI

Breakthroughs in Preventive Cardiology: Key Clinical Trials of 2024 #cvprev Michael J. Blaha Roger Blumenthal

1/ 🚨 NEW #5Pearls: Lp(a) and ASCVD Risk Lp(a) is a lipoprotein similar to LDL but a different entity! Lp(a) has important implications for cardiovascular disease ‼️ 🖥️: coreimpodcast.com/2025/04/02/lpa… Sponsor: Freed AI

Bowel regimen, anyone? What’s the difference between different laxatives? Take a look at this great graphic to learn more ⤵️

Dual Antiplatelet Therapy (DAPT) in CAD - SIHD with PCI: Clopidogrel + aspirin for ≥6 months - ACS with PCI: Any P2Y12 inhibitor + aspirin for ≥12 months - CABG: Resume or start P2Y12 + aspirin for 12 months if recent ACS - Fibrinolysis (STEMI): Clopidogrel + aspirin for ≥14

Listen to our latest episode about ICU Acquired Weakness out today with Kalaila Pais and Jim Devanney. Infographics about ICUAW below 👇 WesElyMD Dale Needham, MD, PhD Critical Care Reviews BIDMC IM Residency Assoc. of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) ATS Crit Care CHEST Critical Care Network

Today's Paper of the Day is: Diagnosis and Management of Acute Respiratory Failure criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidenc… Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025

🆕 ACC scientific statement on the Dx & management of #pericarditis addresses diagnostic & therapeutic advances in acute & recurrent pericarditis & their complications, employing a multimodality imaging-guided therapeutic approach. Get the details: jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #JACC

#CardioNugget: Avoid Amiodarone in TdP! 🌀 Torsades de Pointes is a polymorphic VT triggered by QT prolongation. ⚡️ Amiodarone, a class III antiarrhythmic, further prolongs QT by blocking K⁺ channels → can worsen or trigger more TdP. 🚫 Don’t use Amio in TdP — even though

💡 2025 Hypertension Guideline Simplified: 10 Takeaways from the Ciccarone Team. Roger Blumenthal Aaron Troy, MD MPH Johns Hopkins Cardiology #CVprev