#ProCalcitonin

After a 4-day tour of duty here are some pearls:#COVIDPearl 1: PE and thrombosis are common. Have a low threshold to treat with full dose Lovenox when Ddimers are markedly
Read more
Pneumonia with Dr Wunderink:Great pearl. Mortality for CAP stayed same for decades until recently. Do to either/both of following: *pneumococcal vaccine for kids which decreased cases for kids AND their
Read more
Copied from a friend:From my physician Brother In Law.Repost from another group. Interesting read."I am an ER MD in New Orleans. Class of 98. Every one of my colleagues have
Read more
1/10 Finished 1 week as @UCLAHealth COVID-19 ward (non-ICU) attending. Here is a brief summary of what I learned with help from an outstanding team @SaumitraThakur Jayasree Sundaram, Wen-Ching Tran,
Read more
We have learnt so much but there is lots more to learnEvidence does not support the use of many proposed therapies, including vitamins C and D, zinc, lopinavir-ritonavir, colchicine, interferons,
Read more
THREAD from the new #bradykinin research (pre-print) from :"We propose that the severity of the disease and many deaths are due to a local vascular problem due to activation of
Read more