The best (and fastest) way to evaluate for 2️⃣ & 3️⃣ is with point of care ultrasound.
Looking for bubbles in the LA after agitated saline can help spot a PFO. Measuring LVOT VTI at different PEEPs can be very helpful in titrating.
It's also worth remembering that anyone who worsens on mechanical ventilation, could have developed a pneumothorax. Yet another good reason to use POCUS in your workup of someone with worsening hypoxemia!
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Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe. It's done to death these days but you can't beat a little sunrise with conditions like this. #Scotland #castle #landscape #photography #reflection
The United States owes a deep debt of gratitude to Dr. Anthony #Fauci. The states that made the best attempts to follow Fauci's advice in relation to the pandemic have a much lower COVID death rate than those states that did not. #TheDataDoNotLie, but the owner of the #BirdSite does.
So much nature in people's homes: shells, cones, dried flowers, images, wood, houseplants... It's as though we yearn to reconnect; to bring closer what we detached ourselves from and destroyed. It's time to go home now.
#BiodiversityCrisis #extinction #reforestation #rewilding
Since you guys like this tree as much as I do, here it is in Summer, the gnarly trunk leading us up to a canopy of leaves that are shrouded in mist.
#Trees #Woodland #Beech #Nature #iPhonePhotography #Photography
Brilliant walk through of revascularisatiob/cath for MI: in stable disease no improvement in outcomes over medical therapy// revasc may have role in severely symptomatic ischaemia but must exclude resp cause of dyspnoea // severe multi vessel disease does benefit in cardiovascular endpoint from revasc https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983644?src=WNL_infocu1_221210_MSCPEDIT&uac=179603MT&impID=4968755&faf=1
Early this morning #monday #ceredigion minus 7 brrrrrrrrrr
Sky a beauty, however red in the morning!
EP and basic scientist passionate about #arrhythmia mechanisms. Underwater photographer and mom of 2.
Hello! Joining #MedMastodon today and here’s my #introduction !
I’m a physician practicing #internalmedicine #geriatrics in #academia in the US - however, I’m leaving #AcademicMedicine to practice in #NewZealand in a few months!
I have experience in #hiv & #aging , medical entrepreneurship. I often tweet about #geriatrics #medtwitter
Look forward to connecting with everyone!
You can tell that you're a medievalist at heart if, when called upon to teach modern U.S. history, your can't help referring to the 41st and 43rd Presidents as "Bush I" and "Bush II" as if they were medieval kings. #medievodons #historodons #teachers
My happy place: ocean, sand wind, sunset and a handsome dog. On leash because of nesting hooded plovers #endangeredspecies #hoodedplovers #beachwalks #dogsofmastodon
Study reveals Native peoples were able to buffer the landscape from climate-related conflagrations.
“This is what Indigenous people have been telling us for a long time, but I don’t think Western science has always listened.”
Hiker, hunter, sailor, husband, father, outdoor enthusiast, recovering academic, not in that order #medmastodon #kayaking #woodworking #sailing #hiking #predictiveanalytics #orcas #dogs #pnw #rivers #waterfowl #camping #beaches #mountains #altacademia