Here’s another pulmonary physiology question that *everyone* who gives O2 to patients ought to know: What is the primary mechanism by which supplemental oxygen can increase PaCO2 in someone with severe COPD? 1/

Really cool study showing omalizumab (Xolair) effectively treated various food allergies. Omalizumab is a surprisingly versatile biologic, though its utility in asthma is shrinking, with potential uses in: 🫁 Severe allergic asthma 🤧 Environmental aeroallergies 🍄 ABPA And

Congrats @MirnaMohanraj !

One of the best patient education video series by an allergist Vrinda Kumar youtube.com/@Dr.VrindaKuma…

Honored to join the AABIP podcast with Sameer Avasarala and Roger Kim, MD, MSCE, DAABIP, ATSF! Looking forward to continuing to bring educational and entertaining new content 🫁🎧

Verity or Vanity? link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

Very Important Radiological signs- 🫁 Pulmonary involvement in various diseases. 🫁🔷♦️🔥 #radiotwitter #radiology #signs #medtwitter #medx

🌟 Etiologies of pulmonary infections according to CT-scan patterns. From : Diagnosis of severe respiratory infections in immunocompromised patients link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The CT scan shows an example of Triple Density Sign (formerly Headcheese Sign). This finding of areas of normal lung, high attenuation GGOs, and lucent regions of air trapping scattered throughout the lung is a specific, but not sensitive sign for fibrotic HP

COPD - It did HAPPEN JAMA:

JAMA Review authors Scott Flanders and Valerie Vaughn discuss diagnosis and treatment of community-acquired pneumonia with JAMA Deputy Editor Mary McGrae McDermott. Hosted on AMA Ed Hub™. ja.ma/4gumJQ4

Having excellent time at #CHEST2024. Amazing group of people to learn from.

Visual on why 14G = large bore Not 16G, not 18G Ask your team deliberately: “What size IV access do we have?” As opposed to, “Do we have access?” H/T Oren Gottfried, MD

Extubation Readiness: A to L Checklist We're obsessed with safe intubation, but what about taking the tube out? How do we assess extubation readiness? Here's my simple, alphabet-based A to L checklist: 1/17

1/ Time for another #POCUS pitfalls thread 🧵: the infamous IVC 🤩 I have MANY thoughts on the IVC 💭 When I first started teaching POCUS, I actually disliked the IVC because it was often poorly done or incorrectly interpreted ❌ I have now come to love the IVC, BUT you have

Thanks to Oleg Epelbaum, MD, for his contribution Treatment of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis and Preventive and Empirical Therapy for Invasive Candidiasis in Adult Pulmonary and Critical Care Patients: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

Link to pneumonitis video: youtube.com/watch?v=-AU_LQ…

Life Before Internet 🧵 1. I am glad I got to experience all this when I was a kid.

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