Insertion of intrathecal catheter after a wet tap was found to reduce the need of an epidural blood patch in a retrospective Australian study. No significant difference if catheter left in < or > 24 hours. What is your practice? #PDPH #wettap #OBAnes buff.ly/2BH8mc7

Whichever nurses and ER docs have posted about alcohol swabs for nausea, that just worked for a patient with severe PONV. Now she gets to leave the hospital.

Meet the future of anesthesiology! Welcome Penn Anesthesia Class of 2026 and 2025 #Match2022

“Visualize your tip”

"Just an anesthesiologist" should be a rally cry for our specialty I am proud to be a physician who specializes in anesthesiology. I am proud of my colleagues who provide critical care and pain medicine, who fight for patient safety, who don't seek the limelight.

⁦Penn Anesthesia ⁦Audrey Spelde, MD⁩ PennLungRescue How do we cannulate for RVAD MCS in acute right heart failure - The Evolution and Development of a Perc RV MCS program by CV Anesthesiologists - #rvfailure #rvad #cannulation #ecmo Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia jcvaonline.com/article/S1053-…

A nice review on interpretation of ventilator waveforms to diagnose pathologies buff.ly/3HHkM25 Anesthesiology Journals Vivek Moitra, MD

Surgeons on Twitter writing about how they "tricked" anesthesia into doing cases. As if we anesthesiologists are merely road blocks. why can't we all be a "team", trying to do our collective best? If there's a bad outcome, how is that ok? Or is that then "anesthesia's fault"???

A young mom’s remarkable transition from PennLungRescue to lung transplant Penn Trauma Center Penn Transplant Institute Audrey Spelde, MD Asad Usman jacob gutsche pennmedicine.org/news/internal-…

ER doc & CPR professor here - with a second thread tonight to explain what comes next, AFTER CPR.... it seems that Damar Hamlin is alive, in critical condition... so what does this mean, & what happens now? a new thread, below 🧵 #Bills #DamarHamlin #CPR NFL NFL Network

In their recent video publication, John J. Kelly, MD, Jason Han and Wilson Y. Szeto, MD show the removal of not just one, but two prior transcatheter aortic valves! mmcts.org/case-report/17…

Amal Mattu Things I learned 1) Never miss post/rv MI 2) Answer lies in the PR 3) Just get serial ECG 4) RWCT vs RRWCT (r/o K+/tox) 5) Your kids names

60 y/o female w/ T2DM, intermittent CP x1 week at pcp . Hyperacute Ts or have I been watching too much Amal Mattu? Sam Ghali, M.D. Steve Carroll DO MEd

There you are minding your own business looking at the IVC and a tricuspid valve vegetation photobombs your clip! #Endocarditis

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Wanna look at right heart in long axis? From PSL view, fan slightly to shoot under sternum. Great view to look for tricuspid endocarditis!

“The age old adage” George Willis #kidneyweek

This is the bedside Echo of a critically ill young lady who was transferred in profound shock, intubated, and on high-dose pressors. She was on the brink of coding. Her working diagnoses were "SEPSIS" and “NSTEMI”. (thread)

The key to Laryngoscopy is finding the Epiglottis. When the airway is bloody it will often “camouflage”, making it tougher to find. This makes it even more important to always be methodical: 1. Advance incrementally 2. Identify the Epiglottis 3. Expose the Larynx #FOAMed