The following thread regards how we should be planning for the possibility that nCoV cannot be contained. #2019nCoV (1/x)

Residents & fellows of @VUMCGME, medical students from Vanderbilt School of Medicine and @vumcnursing pitching in for the Vanderbilt Health emergency labor pool to make up shortages from the Nashville tornado! Go #TeamVUMC @KylaTerhune @DrJohnMcP @VUMCMedicineRes @vumcpedsres @VUMCSurgRes Cecelia Theobald, MD MPH FACP (she/her)

Mark Denison, pediatric infectious disease physician & long-time coronavirus scientist, speaking at Vanderbilt Health Medicine Grand Rounds on #COVID19! @DenisonLab @VUMCMedicineRes @vumcpeds @vumcpedsres Vanderbilt MSTP Vanderbilt PSTP/Harrison Society @DMAronoff Kimryn Rathmell

A retrospective study of 90k VA patients who presented with pneumonia found no benefit for empirical anti-MRSA therapy compared to standard therapy in all subgroups studied, even those with +MRSA swabs #AntibioticStewardship ⁦JAMA Internal Medicine⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

1/ Should we use #Remdesivir (RDV) to treat #SARSCoV2? #COVID19 Let’s take a look at the data. Here’s: #HowIReadThisPaper on the @Lancet trial of RDV for COVID19 in humans Wang et al: thelancet.com/journals/lance… (Thread)

Great virtual @VUMC_Medicine Grand Rounds discussing hematologic, cardiac & renal #COVID19 complications with @VUMCHemOnc Colleen Morton, @VUMC_heart Josh Beckman & @VUMCKidney Anna Burgner MD MEHP! Also a touching tribute for Dr. Bill Stone, complete with original COVID19 limerick!

Pleased to share our article on quality of life as reported by patients with Staph aureus & GNR bacteremia. Learned a lot and was lucky to be invited to participate as an MS4 in this important work! academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Good slide from Marc Roth outlining common sites of nodal metastases when generating an initial oncology differential for enlarged lymph nodes. @VUMCMedicineRes @DrJohnMcP @VUMCHospitalMed Vanderbilt School of Medicine Vanderbilt MSTP Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Podcast

#RECOVERY: dexamethasone use in COVID-19 is now peer-reviewed in NEJM. Dexamethasone significantly improved 28-day mortality in hypoxic patients, especially those on a ventilator. A practice-changing study! Full link here: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

New Episode Alert! It's time to meet our @VUMCMedicineRes Chiefs! Meet Lee Richardson, avid fan of Space Jam and Problem Representation, in that order. He discusses resident cases of hypercalcemia in sarcoidosis, HLH and... gold implants?? #Meded tiny.cc/MeetLeeR

1/8 Corticosteroids and COVID19 *Three* RCTs and a new World Health Organization (WHO) meta-analysis add to #RECOVERY trial data that corticosteroids reduce mortality in critically ill #COVID19 patients jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Catch up on recent episodes and meet Chief @BlakeFunkeMD! Here, you can learn about non-HIV PJP, parapneumonic effusions and "downhill" varices: tinyurl.com/ChiefBlake1 Her second episode discusses mucormycosis, hemophilia and high-output heart failure: tinyurl.com/ChiefBlake2

New Episode Alert! In this installment of The Q-Files, @VUMCMedicineRes PGY-2 Trevor Stevens discusses the data that led to the use of corticosteroids in severe COVID-19 and explains how the RECOVERY trial changed practice overnight! Great job, Trevor! open.spotify.com/episode/3P5fiD…

Check out our new Q-Files Episode with PGY2 Ben Palmer covering the #ISCHEMIA trial! Thank you @DrJohnMcP for preparing the analysis with Dr. Palmer and for always supporting our podcast!! @VUMCMedicineRes