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Even as a grim second wave of the coronavirus pandemic grips India and overwhelms its healthcare infrastructure, an inspiring story of recovery has come to the fore from Uttar Pradesh.
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Cliff Marks
cliffmarks
Of all the shortages hospitals face, the most avoidable and prevalent may be of staff trained and available to prone patients. (Thread) 1/ Proning - turning a patient onto their
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Rebecca Livingston
RebeccaMLiv
This weeks COVID learning: I remain sceptical about proning patients on CPAP...Proning improves SpO2 but patients feel breathless and can’t tolerate it for long. We’ve been able to wean FiO2
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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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Salim R. Rezaie, MD
srrezaie
MUST WATCH Video: Thinking CC COVID-19 Respiratory Management - A Physiological Approach via @emcrit https://emcrit.org/emcrit/covid-respiratory-management/ #COVID19FOAMIncludes @drlauraduggan @cameronks @PulmCrit @adamdavidthomas @ThinkingCC @EMNerd
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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉
ASlavitt
COVID provides a look at something Americans don’t often get to see: the influence of drug companies & money on things that don’t reflect the patient’s best interest. Good chance
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𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙛𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙖𝙨 💊
PulmCrit
How to ventilate the intubated COVID patient? Reviewed outcomes of first 9 patient today with my group. Still early days, but initial outcomes promising (6/9 extubated). Some thoughts on (limited)
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Dr Alex Gates
dr_alex_gates
Peculiar. If he doesn’t need ventilation, doesn’t have pneumonia and is receiving ‘standard oxygen treatment’, why is he on ICU?https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1247493731122663424 I smell a rat. The last few days show not
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Eric Lee MD
EricLeeMD
Browsing on phone w that O2 sat. #COVID19 tips from NYC. Anecdotal for now.1. Proning patients helps O2 sats. Have them lie on belly.2. Don't intubate for low O2 sats
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Katie Brito, PT, DPT
KathrynBrito
Too often as an #AcutePT I never hear what happens to my patients after their miraculous recoveries. I broke down & cried when I was shown this, I had no
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The Gay Burn Book
SouthernHomo
So many of my COVID-19 patients right now have chronic kidney disease. COVID-19 worsens this, causing acute-on-chronic kidney failure, and some will die from this. Did they die from COVID-19
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Leora Horwitz
leorahorwitzmd
9th On the topic of syncope, I admitted 3-4 COVID+ patients with presenting complaint of syncope (2 with head lacs), all early in course, with orthostatic hypotension without significant antecedent
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A knife at the gunfight
SlyFitz
My NYC #COVID Lessons learned1) New York Hospitals are under water. This pandemic is real. Both epidemiologically and pathophysiologically this disease is unlike anything I have ever seen before... 1/
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Rob Watson
BrotherWatson
from the Head of ICU at the Royal Free. Please feel free to disseminate further. “Dear All, I have just finished a very useful ICU / NHS Nightingale teleconference, the
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Dan Arendt Pharm.D., BCPS
ArendtDr
I think that acetazolamide and nifedipine may have a role in slowing the progression of #COVID19Yes you read that right.In this #thread we will explore the atypical ARDS that COVID-19
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spicyyyyybri
In the event that you contract #Covid_19, be sure to spit out all the mucus that comes with it. I know it’s gross, but you need to spit out the
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