#COVID4MDs

Smiling in a face mask—pretty ineffective. Also, my glasses keep falling off. #covid19 #covid4MDs One unexpected benefit of going to all-mask policy: suddenly everyone is actually socially-distancing in the hospital.

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Don’t take responsibility for decisions you didn’t make. Escaping this pandemic psychologically whole and spiritually well is going to be a monumental task. It will require you to assign responsibility

1. Type III hypersensitivity reactions typically develop ~6 h after exposure to antigen.This is the timeframe we are often seeing patients rapidly decompensate in (2L -> 15L -> intubation), usually

Leonard Calabrese

This is my Hydroxychloroquine rant. I am wigged out by the scientifically lacking propmotion of Trump and his minions and near equally upset at the negativism of those who wouldlikely

1/ Good morning, #medtwitter! This 1 goes out 2 everyone who hasn’t had to interpret a blood gas since Steps, prelim year or their last episode of ER (@DGlaucomflecken). FYI:

Kira Newman, MD, PhD

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After spending the last four weeks working in an #ICU here in #Seattle, a final set of #COVID19 clinical and general thoughts: #COVID4MDs #seattlecovid19 #medtwitter (1/10) Last week’s diagnoses are

"Cytokine Storm". The idiot's buzzword of the week. It makes you sound smarter if you say it often enough. When I first heard of it in 1994 it sounded AMAZING!

Hannah | Hehua Huang

1/7 France has done the first pharmacokinetic (PK) study of HCQ for ICU patients of #COVID19, a fantastic job for dosage optimization. 13 patients, average weight=82.7 kg46% pts BMI>3012 on

Jameson Voss MD MPH

Why do I wish there was more focus on the convalescent plasma preprint than the @NEJM remdesivir study? Let me give you 10 quick reasons to spread the news about

A hematology @tony_breu-style tweetorial: Why does lymphopenia occur in #COVID19?A normal WBC count and lymphopenia are seen in patients affected by COVID-19, but why it occurs has bothered me since

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#COVID19 update 4/20/20. #covid4MDs It’s a big country and a big world. Feel free to chime in with the situation in your area. This is how it looks from Colorado,

Hello #medtwitter! Join me in my second-ever #Tweetorial re:Can smartphone apps measure blood pulse oximetry reliably? @Marty_Fried @OhioStateIMRes @cjchiu @AvrahamCooperMD @ErinMichos @willcjensen @APNDMD @DrTomasGuerrero @JoeySalibaMD @andrewjohnsm

Proposed COVID-19 Pathophysiology [Part 1 of 3]What do #COVID-19 and #Dengue fever potentially have in common?The answers have significant potential clinical implications in COVID-19.Buckle up. It's a long one.Let’s take

Proposed COVID-19 Pathophysiology [Part 2 of 3]:Enter the magnificent macrophage.What do #COVID-19 and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (#HLH) potentially have in common?...let’s continue our journey onward into the cytokine storm. First, let’s

Ajay Major, MD, MBA

I was feeling overwhelmed by all the laypress articles about #moralinjury and #burnout in frontline health care workers during #Covid_19 so I decided to do a deep dive into the

Proposed COVID-19 Pathophysiology [Part 3 of (now) 4]: Coagulopathy Strikes Back.What happens when #COVID19 clashes with the