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Daniel Ortiz, MD
danortizmd
Batch of #covid19 cases from the past few days. These are just a few with the most “classic” appearance and some with fibrosis/ARDS. Get used to this look. Thread of
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James Cai
JamesCaiNJNYC
I agree with Dr Cameron ICU doctor at Maimonides afraid that most the doctors in America are treating all the #COVID19 patient wrong. We were all assume that patient die
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Lucy Sueiro
Loo0105
I’m not sure how to get this news out to doctors & scientists but they’re treating patients with #COVID19 as pneumonia w ventilators. It could be treated as high altitude
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Dr Moderate
centrist_phone
Is our treatment approach to covid19 dangerously wrong?Leading ICU doctors in covid19 hotpots (China, Italy, New York) are raising serious alarm bells.Aggressive ventilation may be needlessly killing thousands of people.A
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Robert Dickson
robertpdickson
[thread] The paradox of treating ARDS is this: because we don't have a drug to reverse lung injury, we provide supportive care with two therapies - oxygen and mechanical ventilation
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Chris Meadows
mrbrownsauce
To explain our rationale...COVID-19 seems to present as 2 phenotypes: initially high compliance with poor V/Q match and low recruitability, ‘dry’ lungs; versus subsequent low compliance, ‘wet’ lungs, potentially recruitable.
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Ed Ostrin, MD, PhD
phlegmMDPhD
There's an emerging theory that the profound hypoxia by COVID is due to a sort of hemoglobinopathy caused by direct viral protein binding to heme. I suppose anything is possible,
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Saman Nematollahi
TxID_Edu
1/Some thoughts about steroids for #COVID19Based on studies w/ flu, MERS-CoV, & SARS, steroids did not show any benefitIn fact, steroids were associated w/ delayed viral clearance of MERS-CoV &
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Mosa AlShabeeb
Mosapositive
#ARDS. Approach the #ICU monster with an organized thought.#MedTwitter #CriticalCare #ventilators #twittorial #respiratory_therapy#COVID (1/10)Acute respiratory distress syndrome is an impairment of alveolar-interstatium capillary-relations
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Jack Iwashyna
iwashyna
While the total population burden of Post Intensive Care Syndrome (#PICS) will rise steeply because of #COVID19, I am less sure about the individual attack rate To the extent that
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Kari Jerge, MD, FACS (she/her)
kari_jerge
I don’t know who needs to hear this right now... but SURGICAL INTENSIVISTS ARE INTENSIVISTS. We do a one to two year long fellowship. We complete a formal board certification
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Lucy Seton-Watson
LucySetonW
1/2The issue about how to treat critically ill Covid patients in intensive care is important because it points the way towards developing treatment that works. Anyone interested should read: https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/220301/
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Matt Mireles
mattmireles
COVID-19 is NOT ARDSEarly intubation + high PEEP to treat hypoxemia may hurt patients"It seems to be some kind of attack on the capillary-alveolar interface combined with some kind of
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JayEnAar
GorwayGlobal
Okay, listen up, @Bioconlimited @kiranshaw, and othersI've now seen the youtube press conference. Let me take up one issue with Biocon's Chief Medical Officer, who addresses the Q of small
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Susan Wilcox, MD
MiscSusan
Ok, I have to say something, especially as I keep getting pulled into in these posts. COVID-19 causes ARDS. I keep hearing the refrain that it is not ARDS because
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حنا
hantav
you know what else is suffocating? ARDShttps://twitter.com/mkizziah/status/1247990294399909889 honestly this tweet gives away in very few lines why i hate medical school so much. what are y'all even doing here. take
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