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Co-bro @ResusTonight. Likes emerg and crit care. Good friends with #POCUS. Lord of the typos & bad grammar. Hype man.
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I was recently asked by a few people at #SCCM2025 if they could share this ‘Toolkit for Hard Days’ that the #PedsICU nurses made from one of my posts (🔗 in comments). I can’t overstate how happy I am to share it with anyone who could be helped by it. #MedSky

1/ One of the BIGGEST #POCUS misconceptions is that B lines 🟰 pulmonary edema 🤦‍♀️ Did you know that there is actually a wide DDx for B lines? Check out my latest video about #LungUltrasound for interstitial syndromes 👀; or read on for the highlights 👇 🧵 #emimcc www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSuA...

Confession: I LOVE hyponatremia 🤓 (I know, I know. What can I say, I'm a true internist!) HypoNa is often feared, maligned, and misunderstood - but I promise it doesn't have to be scary! Here are my top 10 hyponatremia tips and tricks - a 🧵 #emimcc

Use of point-of-care ultrasound at a family medicine clinic for early pregnancy care reduced emergency department visits, urgent care visits, & office calls for first trimester pregnancy concerns. Leading to more timely diagnoses of abnormal pregnancies. #FMsky www.annfammed.org/content/22/6...

The single most important study for nurses this year. Not excluding all #emimcc folks, but nursing holds the most cards for visiting hours. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/4/...

RANT: How fee-based Private / For Profit Primary Health Care "Innovations" are wrecking 🇨🇦 healthcare for everyone else. Today a recruiter offered me "more information about" a job that would pay me ~450-500k/year to look after 400 patients. 1/11

So much goodness here.

1/ Back to the basics today: let's talk about common pitfalls in obtaining cardiac #POCUS images ❤️ Here are some very common image acquisition errors in basic views, as well as the simple moves to correct them ✅ 🧵 #emimcc #POCUSky #echosky #MedSky

Let’s talk about determining capacity. Incredibly important, surprisingly difficulty and often misunderstood, determining capacity is an important skill for physicians. There are a lot of myths surrounding capacity determination I'd like to address. #MedSky #EmergencyMedicine #ethics 1/12

Let's talk ETT confirmation by #POCUS. First off, why? After all, we have end tidal CO2. However, that's not always available, and definitely not always *immediately* available. #ultrasound effective, accurate and invaluable in austere settings. #MedSky