Checkout is not a time for chit chatting it is a time for rapid fire transfer of information followed by immediate home going.

🆕 SPECIAL #prescribing WEBINAR 🚨 💊What have we learned about prescribing #analgesics? 💊How should we treat pain when #opioid overdoses have become an intractable epidemic? Speaker: Clinical Pharmacologist David Juurlink Register: ti.ubc.ca/juurlink-analg… #pain #MedEd

Its nurse practitioner week! 🎉If you are interested in diagnostic reasoning, diagnostic imaging, and practice management for nurse practitioners, check out the online blog npreasoning.com created by Vicky Sanderson . Great for anyone interested in clinical problem solving. 🧠

#POCUS Spaced Rep: Beautiful GB stones with shadows extending into the far field. Sludge/polyps/septations will not have shadows. Also, can roll patient onto the LLD to interrogate more

#POCUS Spaced Rep: Oldie but a goodie. I slide from the subxiphoid space along the costal margin while keeping the caudal tip of the liver in view all the way to the anterior axillary line to make sure I don't get faked out. Also follow Dan Kim for all things POCUS!

Come join the 2024 Clinician Educator Incubator! • LITFL EOIs close Feb 2nd 2024. Join us if you want to develop as a clinician educator in the ANZ critical care setting, apply best practices, and help lead 21st century critical care education. litfl.com/come-join-the-…

#POCUS spaced rep: Phrygian cap, a benign variant that can mimic GB pathology. Also, refers the phygrian cap refers to hats some people wore in ancient Greece

#POCUS Spaced Rep: Troubleshooting GB views- hold breath, left decubitus, coronal view, through the ribs, once I got someone to stand Pic courtesy pocus101.com

Welcome back to UltraRounds. Today we're reviewing up the Parasternal Short Axis View today Share with someone who you think would learn from this! #Echo #FOAM #FOAMED #EmergencyMedicine #CriticalCare #Resuscitation

UltraRounds: The Apical 4 Chamber View #FOAM #POCUS #Ultrasouond

#POCUS spaced rep: The Mickey mouse sign on this leg (screen L to R) is GSV-CFV-FA Mickey's ear looks like it has a cerumen impaction here

Paul Williams (definitely not on another site) because you feel unseen. If the management types were actually any good, they would know you and know they didn't have to micromanage you ....but then they couldn't justify their continued employment

A diagnostic accuracy study produces a receiver operator curve (ROC) that shows an AUC of 0.72! So... is that a good test? What is a ROC and why do we need them? How come some of them are jagged and others are smooth? Here's a simple explanation: simplesage.io/blog/roc_curve…

reposting this if one in case anyone missed this legend's tweetorial

Pure gold in this thread

Use of point-of-care ultrasound in rural British Columbia. Read a story of how #pocus went viral? Now in 90% of #ruralBC ERs, influencing care 50% of the time it's used. We need to revamp #ugme and residency with longitudinal POCUS curriculum. cfp.ca/content/70/2/1…

(1/x) Here's our paper on the medico-legal risks of #pocus 🧑‍⚖️ A better title: How not to get sued performing POCUS. A 🧵 Teaser: You can be sued performing #pocus... Please share to help spread best #pocus practices 🙏 theultrasoundjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.11… Robert Arntfield Derek Wu NephroPOCUS

EMCrit Wee - @Ross_Prager on 10 Heuristics for the New ICU Attending. We took an amazing tweetorial and made it into a podcast. Fantastic tips for Resus and Crit Care [#FOAMed] emcrit.org/qus8

Soapbox rant of the day 😤 There is more to an Echo report than EF ‼️ I see far too many patients labelled as "HFpEF" when their reported EF is normal, despite a HOST of other more significant cardiac pathology that is driving their presentation and physiology 🤦‍♀️ 🧵

Mentorship has been crucial for my own development. I realize not all trainees find mentors they connect with. I want to help. I am not sure if this will work... but I am starting a virtual mentor group for trainees (medical students or residents) from anywhere in the world.