#Acute

1. Bon les deuxièmes vagues sont partout... comme prédit initialement. Un thread sur le "pourquoi portez le masque est important". Il contient toutes les infos à balancer aux complotistes anti-masques
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You have heard people with sickle cell anemia talk about having "crisis". Do you understand what "crisis" mean?#SickleCellAwareness Let's take it back a bit. #SickleCell isn't an attack from your
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A #tweetorial #medtweetorial @MedTweetorials1/3 AM: Pager Pager Pager Me [very groggily]: Hey, what’s up?Awesome overnight APP: Sorry to wake you! But, Mrs. Very-Small-Stroke-NIHSS-2-Had-Been-Clinically-Stable-All-Day just PEA arrested.Me
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My name is Meadhbh (or Bert hehe) and I am a final year student nurse. I’ve worked as a health care assistant since the beginning of the pandemic on an
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Everyone who thinks coronavirus is harmless or doesn’t matter should rethink that opinion immediately.This is an extremely dangerous pathogen with wide spreading implications, including neurological impairment, brain, lung, heart &
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What do we know about Vitamin C and #COVID19 so far?The role of #VitaminC goes beyond immunity-boosting & the micronutrient at high dose is crucial to prevent severity. Making a
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How COVID-19 kills:A Pathophysiological discussion in lay terms.The Lungs consist of a network of air conduits which subdivide into a finer network of air passages which terminate into air sacs
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In the COVID19 era @ScottHalpernMD reminded me that the most common refrain nowadays is "All models are wrong but some are useful." Here's a walkthrough of how we built a
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A thread about ICU admission decisionsThere seems to be lots of (mis)information about how intensive care doctors decide whether a patient would benefit from coming to ICU. I thought I’d
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Paradoxically enhanced survival among smokers reported in Chinese retrospective studies seems most likely explained by reduced IL-6 activity in smokers.Chronic smoking apparently has immunosuppressant effects, which probably leads to less
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Twitter of our @EmergencyMedBMJ paper on hospital flow:Effect of hospital interventions to improve patient flow on emergency department (ED) clinical quality indicatorsYou can read the full paper here:https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2020
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Let's talk about "rationing" of intensive care in the context of #COVID19 (thread)First of all, it's not happening in the UK. There are lots of misconceptions, which stem from the
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1) Quebec is now beset with more than 500 #COVID19 outbreaks as the province posted a record 1,364 infections on Tuesday amid an upswing in hospitalizations and deaths. In this
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Just spent a moment wondering why I had such an emotional reaction to Biden taking the lead in Pa. I realized I have spent the better part of the past
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Stop. Rest. Pace is important and recommended advice for people experiencing post-exertional malaise (PEM) due to post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) that some people develop. If people
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le Pr Raoult a une fois de plus affirmé que la transmission du SARS s effectue principalement par les mains (et les vêtements précédemment). C est faux. Voici donc quelques
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