#Dyspnea

Dena Desabille

_DocDen

Two recent "SARI" patients from our municipality seen at the district hospital. Unloading some of my worry as a community-based physician: (1) Dyspneic, pale, with clear breath sounds with 3-day

Kassandra Bragg, RDMS, RVT

kbragg

POLIO has a 90% survival rate. One should not use survival rate as the benchmark on which public policy is decided. COVID is NOT a regular respiratory virus. The more

Chest Imaging

ChestImaging

This is a thread of COVID-19 CXR (all SARS-CoV-2 PCR+) from my hospital (Spain). I hope it could help.Case 1. 68yo female. Cough and fever. Case 2. 47yo male. Fever.

Rabih Geha

rabihmgeha

1/The base rate…a double-edged sword.A mini-tweetorial on this crucial concept in clinical reasoning. 2/What is it?The base rate is the relative frequency of a diagnosis within a clinical context.Example:In the

François Benoux

_benoux_

What changed in my understanding of COVID:1) It's *extremely* contagious. I got it from an event I didn't attend, effectively the same day with my relative who attended this event

Adeel Shahid, MD

AdeelShahidMD

#COVID19 is causing a discrepant picture b/w relative clinical comfort and very troubling Pulse ox. Seems like the virus is attacking hemoglobin and shifting oxygen dissociation curve moreso than just

Andrew Sanchez

ASanchez_PS

Back to #pulmonology quick hits! Today I'll present a schema for the PULM MANIFESTATIONS OF LUPUS – all info from https://www.uptodate.com/contents/pulmonary-manifestations-of-systemic-lupus-erythematosus-in-adults#H402634822 First,

Frank Cacace MD FACP

GIMaPreceptor

1/Many of my colleagues and I have not been redeployed to the hospital during the #COVID pandemic. We have been doing the ambulatory care of pre/non hospitalized patients, helped w

Aneta Molenda

a_m_molenda

Complex approach to reduce need of oxygen in COVID patients. Aspirin/Nebulized HCQ/glutathion/cyproheptadine. Share to people in charge in hospitals. #doctors #COVID19India #OxygenShortage #Oxygen #COVID19 @COVID19_INDIA @PMOIndia @COVIDNew

Parijat Sen

ParijatSen11

Learning Advanced Pulmonary Sarcoidosis at #CHEST2020 Before labeling progression of pulmonary sarcoid, rule out other causes of worsening cough or dyspnea Pick your poison when it comes to biomarkers to

Eduardo R Argaiz

ArgaizR

Pt w COVID19 PNA. Talking but w refractory hypoxemia 88% on 15 L NRB. RR 22 HR 103. Intubation was planned. No good peripheral IV. I placed a #POCUS guided

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙛𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙖𝙨 💊

PulmCrit

some pearls from an article by Martin Tobin about when to intubate patients with COVID (yep, the same one who edited Tobin's textbook on mechanical ventilation)... (#1/6)(full article: https://bit.ly/2XDgovQ ) hypoxemia

Avraham Z. Cooper, MD

AvrahamCooperMD

1/Why can furosemide improve dyspnea/pulmonary edema from acute congestive heart failure within minutes of administration?The answer does not involve diuresis.#medtwitter #tweetorial 2/Furosemide (aka Lasix) was introduced as a loop diureti

Rachel McGonagill

RachelMcGonagi1

I had a video appointment with WonderBoy today. It prolly wasn't meant to go an hour. But I had a lot to talk about. Ask about. Go over details of.Like,

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

People who are dying of COVID19 will need first-rate palliative (hospice) care. This is going to be especially the case for people who are denied ventilators or who are taken

Ricky Turgeon PharmD

Ricky_Turgeon

Interesting to see the POPular AGE trial published in @lancet today providing randomized data to validate our findings from a large Canadian registry study published in @JAMAInternalMed last monthhttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/