The 'hotspots' where kids go unvaccinated, mapped advisory.com/daily-briefing…

Thoughts while reviewing "Clinical Vignette" Submissions. 1. There are an infinite number of ways the finite number of diseases present. 2. Medicine is hard. 3. I will never get bored of clinical medicine.

Nurse-led family-support intervention in the ICU finds no effect on anxiety and depression of surrogates after the patients’ hospitalization, but does improve surrogates’ ratings of the patient-centeredness of care. nej.md/2Ip9d4d

Wow - awesome. A picture is worth a thousand words. Maybe a million, if you've ever seen someone paralyzed and proned. A lot of work went into this moment. Proud to know these guys. x.com/brains_brawn_M…

In this trial, procalcitonin was investigated as a point-of-care test to aid in determining whether antibiotics were needed in the treatment of these illnesses.

Positive outcomes, #mortality, publication bias in #sepsis #shock . Trials with a “positive” outcome (p < 0.05) on the trial primary endpoint had significantly higher control-group mortality than negative trials, but similar intervention-group mortality. rdcu.be/116X

Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment science.sciencemag.org/content/360/63…

We recognize nurses today and every day for the crucial role they play in preventing infections that can lead to sepsis—and acting fast when sepsis is suspected. go.usa.gov/xUXGC #NAHN

Catherine Humikowski, MD - Battles Between Burnout and Balance ja.ma/2JSfRvp @agoodsave "The very words we use—balance burnout self-care—fail to admit that when our professional & personal duties swell in a culture that refuses to align them, it is too much to ask"

Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ They’re suffering from moral injury statnews.com/2018/07/26/phy… via STAT

Turns out drugs kill people. Who’d have thought?

Safest level of alcohol consumption is... none washingtonpost.com/national/healt…

Agreed. It's not the singer, it's the song. Lot's of great intensivists from all specialties.

So proud of Char, a dear colleague and critical care NP who has worked at UPMC for 30 years leading by example! #healthcarehero Pitt Critical Care Medicine

So proud of Charmine Pykosh, MSN, CRNP, one of our senior APPs, who is the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at UPMC. Now that's a #Hero #BeLikeChar

We are witnessing absolute banana republic crap in the United States Capitol right now. @realdonaldtrump, you need to call this off.

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In the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Freedom House Ambulance Service supplanted the police in a role in which they were not effective, reimagined the role of Black citizens in improving community health, and helped establish national standards for emergency medical care.