#Warfarin

Med Reconciliation:ME: Can you tell me why you are on Warfarin?Pt: Because my blood was too thick.ME: "Do you have a heart problem? A problem with your heart valves?"Pt: They

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BukuHaematology

1/ Antidote news! There has been promise recently regarding antidotes being developed for DOACs. Before we get onto that, a quick summary of what we have so far... 2/ In

Came across a very interesting Somali Biology paper published in Nature, March 2020. (3/4 authors based are Somali)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62645-0 Findings! 1) A total of 9 variants in Somalis, with allele frequency

DrSimonAshworth

How should we consider #COVID19?This is primarily a vitally induced thrombotic disease spread by droplets Post-mortems tell us the virus causes endothelial damage and overt blood clots in both small

I hadn’t intended for this to tease dropping a bombshell or anything, but after talking with an ICU nurse yesterday, she basically reiterated now serious this illness is. It’s very

Medlife Crisis (Rohin)

What are some drug names with cool origins?Rapamycin from Rapa Nui IslandWarfarin from Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationMorphine from MorpheusLasix (is that one an urban myth?)Emla from Eutectic Mixture of Local

Enrico Ferro, MD

Would you care for a pragmatic understanding of cost-effectiveness for new #cardiovascular drugs? In our new @Heart_BMJ article, we use 3 case studies to clarify key concepts like cost-effectiveness &

Aaron Berkowitz

AaronLBerkowitz

A lot of talk about #CVST Rare to have neuro in the news, so here's a quick #neurology #Tweetorial on cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.#MedEd #MedTwitter #neurotwitter @CPSolvers @rabihmgeha @DxRxEdu

New paper w/ Leila Agha (@LeilaEcon), David Chan, Daniel Singer, and Diana Zhu: doctors who depart from guideline recommendations cause many preventable strokes. …https://spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/faculty/wp-content/

Like this tweet and I’ll tell you what drug you are @YakinOuederni Clindamycin. It's got a black box warning for explosive diarrhea. Need I say more? @AnumImrn Metformin. Miracle

Stacey - 1776 & MLK

So, let me tell you a story. I wrote this & got savaged. /1https://noqreport.com/2020/03/07/my-plan-for-living-through-coronavirus-despite-the-media/ IDGAF because I get savaged often on Twitter. Welcome to 2020. So all of that is

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It's Stop the Bleed month, so it's time to share resources! As an EMT, if I could only teach everyone one thing for emergency response, it would be high quality

Let's HIT the topic Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT)!This #tweetorial is a deep dive into Episode 43 of Run the List (RTL) on Thrombocytopenia: https://bit.ly/32feVfQ Thanks @LeelaChock for covering this week’s topic!

Chief Pharmacist

12 #VITAL_TIPS ABOUT SOME DRUGS1. Paracetamol is more effective on an empty stomach.2. Eating fatty food (eg Milk ) together taking ACT Antimalarial medications will increase it's absorption rate.3. Taking

Edward Nirenberg

Alrighty Twitter, we need to have a really important conversation about what toxins are and some of the basics of toxicology because lives are being endangered by these misperceptions. Firstly:Toxin-

The Brain Doctor

Who Can Take Vaccine ??? Please open this, I will keep adding.. Post Covid ~ RTPCR positive history or past Covid is no contraindications to vaccines.If active Covid infection ~