Fridays in the ED UCLA (RR/OV) EM Residency with Christian Hernandez, MD (he said this was the first time he wore his white coat in 3 years lol)

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We are saddened to hear the news of the CHRISTUS Spohn EM Residency closing. As always we support all residents and have and will be reaching out to help them maximize their education either at their current site or with a transfer. (1/3)

Big news! We're excited to announce our partnership with one of Milwaukee's longest-tenured agencies, C-K. We're excited to start developing the brand and name of the club with an agency who truly knows MKE culture. We'll be on WISN 12 at 4:15pm today, tune in!

It always blows my mind how outside hospitals with very capable ED physicians transfer patients out to a hospital 3hrs away for them to be placed in a splint and given an outpatient surgery date. Talk about patient care and cost.

The menace on service today Corydon (Cory) W. Wilson MD, MS

By age 35, every critical care clinician should have six PowerPoint presentations about basic clinical topics with no animations, a set of scrubs stolen from a minimum of three hospitals, and an iPhone video of a SonoSite screen showing cardiac tamponade. #medtwitter

Very excited to be taking my training to the next level starting in Summer 2025 training at the Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship program with USCAnesCCMFellowship . Thankful to Medical College of Wisconsin and UCLA (RR/OV) EM Residency for an outstanding first 8 years of Med-Ed and Emergency training. #ICU #EM

#MedTwitter any AI programs you’ve used that been helpful for literature reviews & research curious to hear. Feel free to DM me 🌞

Similar to a prior 🧵regarding traumatic deaths in 'The Iliad': Here I will examine the deaths in the movie 'Braveheart' to estimate how many of these might have been prevented if modern level 1 trauma centers and surgical care were available in Scotland at the time. (1/)

ICU - POCUS week: Sudden desaturation - hemodynamic collapse - patient with COVID already on the ventilator: R lung:

Here’s the CT Scan of a patient with a history of schizophrenia who presented to the ER with abdominal pain What’s the diagnosis?

#POCUS The words we choose matter This recently published collaborative scientific statement attempts to standardize the nomenclature in cardiac POCUS

(1/x) Intubating a critically ill patients is the most dangerous procedure we do in the ICU (3.1% cardiac arrest rate) not because of hypoxia or tube placement, but hemodynamic collapse 🫀 (Russotto et al. JAMA 2021) A 🧵on making high risk hemodynamic intubations as safe as

Resident: “I’m so happy today is my last day of ICU ever” Makes me sad that residents have lost interest in ICU. Learning physiology and learnimg to take care of critically ill patients will make you a better anesthesiologist

1/ Wild cardiac arrest with #POCUS playing a major role An elderly male was sent from the nursing home in cardiac arrest. Per the prehospital report that we got, the patient was in vfib and refractory to 5 defib attempts. The patient got amio as well as several doses of epi.

2. CVP (central venous pressure) is not a marker of “volume status” since it can be affected by non-volume related disorders (eg, tricuspid regurgitation/stenosis, pericardial pressure etc)

🧵 Albumin in Critical Care: 70 Years, 700 Papers… Zero Benefit 1/ Albumin is the most studied fluid in critical care. Decades of trials. Endless meta-analyses. And yet – not a single clinically meaningful benefit. Here’s why the entire theory collapses once you understand

EMCrit Wee - The RSI Trial - Etomidate vs. Ketamine for RSI Induction in the critically ill. These results are practice changing for many resuscitationists! I know it will change my practice. Listen to this interview with lead authors: Jon Casey and Brian Driver [#FOAMed