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Cystatin C is a better marker of renal function than serum creatinine in early stages of AKI and is less affected by age, gender, muscle mass, and ethnicity. Is concomitant use of vancomycin and beta-lactam associated with changes in Cystatin C? Great question, glad you asked!

@CDHsurvivor Doodz And that's why i made an educational video about it! youtu.be/4cNr9eSXEWA

Happy day-after-Match-day! Is your #PGY program going into Phase 2? Drop your info here 👇🏻 for me to share with our students! #TwitteRx #PharmEd

albumin-corrected calcium level is *less* accurate than the uncorrected total calcium level 🤯 I think we all know that that albumin-corrected calcium is junky and you need an iCal to really know the biologically active calcium level... but I didn't realize how bad it is 😬

You've probably heard that Bicarbonate has to turn into CO2 to raise the pH. “Don’t give bicarb if you can’t increase ventilation.” But how much CO2 is there in an amp of sodium bicarbonate? A bicarb 🧵 1/

🦠Guidelines: Diagnosis & Management of Infective Endocarditis in Adults JAMA Network Open #Cardiology #CardioEd #enarm #FOAMed

This is big. The drug phenylephrine - a common ingredient in almost every "Cold/Flu" oral medication available in the market as a "nasal decongestant" will soon be confirmed useless and hence will be asked by the USFDA to be removed from shelves. In India, these products

The TICH-NOAC trial provided 1g TXA to patients with non-traumatic ICH within 12 hours from onset and who had their last NOAC dose within 48 hours. TXA did not provide a statistically significant difference in hematoma expansion. Rates of death and disability were similar.

It’s embarrassing that in a specialty where pharmacists and physicians work side-by-side caring for patients at the beside, we continue to see disparaging of other professions. It’s disheartening because many have worked tirelessly to build collaboration and teamwork.

At last month's House Oversight Committee hearing on PBMs, arguably no congressman stood out more than Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧, who clearly has an exceptional grasp on how drug pricing actually works and how PBMs exacerbate affordability problems for plan sponsors and patients. A+

📃Upcoming Guidelines Spoilers #IDWeek2023 First-ever IDSA guidelines for complicated Urinary Tract Infection (cUTI) #UTI

Planning to complete your recertification requirements in 2024 or beyond? Beginning in January, #BPS will allow certificants to complete a specialty review/recertification course any number of times during their recertification cycle. Learn more here: bpsweb.org/recertificatio…

If anyone is bored at work, bring this up to literally anyone in the ED and you'll be laughing for the rest of your shift "A banana has about 1 mEq of potassium per inch"

Amazing that after years of searching and collating, people (usually @absteward!) still find Shorter Is Better studies we didn't know about! 2 more Lyme disease studies added to table thanks to Dr. Ghanem. One from 1983! Who knew!? References at bradspellberg.com/shorter-is-bet…

📢 Magnesium has shown to decrease the need for hospitalization in asthma exacerbations, superior for seizure prevention in pre-eclampsia, effectively treat atrial fibrillaton and TdP, and reduces migraine attacks/severity. #TwitterX #Medtwitter

🇺🇸 HealthCare: In case you wondered, Becton Dickinson, the manufacturer of BACTEC™ blood culture bottles has announced a significant shortage of these bottles.  It is not known how long this shortage will last. CDC recommended practices to optimize use of blood culture bottles

Please see this great post from Medicine Master Academy . I want to make sure you know the creator is Medicine Master Academy

Paul Skenes, 100mph Fastball, 95mph Splinker, 85mph Sweeper and 88mph Changeup, 4 Pitch Overlay

ICU Snaphots: One of the common scenarios in the ICU: the patient with known systolic heart failure who is admitted to us either from the ED or from the ward because she is "diuretic-resistant". There are some nice algorithms to follow: