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Paul Wischmeyer MD

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#Nutrition #ICU #Exercise Physician-Researcher, Professor at DukeMedSchool, Passionate About Patient Recovery!, #Dancer, #ICU & #IBD Survivor, #Ostomy, Dad

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Paul Wischmeyer MD

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4 years

What patients NEED their physicians know. 👇🙏.#MedEd #MedTwitter

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🫁 Chest X ray reading made easy.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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🏃‍♀️ Exercise at night is optimal vs. morning?. 💡 Evening exercise led to:.⬆️ weight loss & ⬆️ VO2 peak vs. morning exercise . Key paper- Please Retweet! .

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Anyone have any good jokes? 😂 #MedTwitter

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💡How to read an abdominal CT scan.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed . H/T @NutrioSci

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Ten simple Rules for making good Oral presentation. @ScholarshipfPhd

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Electrolytes 🧠. #MedEd #FOAMed #MedX

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🙋‍♂️ INCREDIBLE ICU MOBILITY in intubated patient on ventilator & CRRT. 👉This should be the standard of care in all ICU’s and hospitals worldwide 🌎. ❓Does your ICU walk and mobilize intubated patients?. H/T @fisioprecoce .#ICUrehab #FOAMcc #PhysicalTherapy #MedEd #MedTwitter

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How to write a paper by @AndrewMIbrahim. H/T @drkeithsiau

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💊 Vitamins: Everything you need to know.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed. H/T @BrownJHM & @medics_AbuSaif

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💩How laxatives work.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed . Remember BOSS for the 4 classes 💡🧠 #GITwitter . B: Bulk-forming.O: Osmotic.S: Stool softeners.S: Stimulant

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🙋‍♂️Fluid absorption & secretion within the GI tract .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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Vasopressors/Inotropes essentials for EM & Critical Care #MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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🫁 Airway/Laryngeal anatomy .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed #SCCM .#FOAMcc #SCCMSoMe . Brilliant video from @Innov_Medicine

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Best chest x-ray anatomy guide ever 🫁 .#MedEd #Medtwitter #TipsForNewDocs #medicine #MedicalStudents #FOAMed #FOAMcc . Via @radiologistpage

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🙋‍♂️ AMAZING intubated ICU patient playing volleyball. 👉NOTICE only 1 physical therapist needed. 🎯 Early mobility should be standard of care in all ICU’s 🌎. Sedation can allow pts to be awake w/o pain-see @WesElyMD A-F bundle!. ❓Does your ICU walk intubated patients?. H/T

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How to write a paper by @AndrewMIbrahim. H/T @drkeithsiau #ISICEM21

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📍Digestion and absorption of nutrients .#MedEd #Nutrition #MedTwitter

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🙋‍♂️Nutrient absorption in GI tract.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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Causes of diarrhea 💩.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed . H/T @drkeithsiau

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🚨Excellent “Must Know” emergency/ICU medications .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed. H/T @BrownHospMed

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💡Light’s criteria for pleural effusions.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed. Thanks to @DocScribbles for more brilliant medical art!

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🙋‍♂️ INCREDIBLE ICU MOBILITY in intubated patient on ventilator . 👉This should be the standard of care in all ICU’s and hospitals worldwide 🌎. ❓Does your ICU walk and mobilize intubated patients?. H/T @HeidiEngel4 .#ICUrehab #FOAMcc #PhysicalTherapy #MedEd #MedTwitter

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📌 Glucose Metabolism . An amazing & versatile substrate! 🍒. #Biology #Metabolism #Nutrition #MedEd #Science

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📍Digestion and absorption of nutrients.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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Distribution of IV fluids after infusion 💧💡 #4KMedEd #MedEd #MedTwitter. (Courtesy of @bmj_latest)

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ALBUMIN - Everything you ever wanted to know 🧠

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Ford Interlocking (Reverdin - Multanovski - Continuous Lock - Lock Stitch) Suture Pattern .#MedEd #MedTwitter #medical #suture #stitch #surgeons #FOAMcc . Credit: @surgmedia & @Innov_Medicine

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🩸Blood: Who can receive what blood type.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed. H/T @Innov_Medicine

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Lymphocytes 🤩😅

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Best chest x-ray anatomy guide ever 🫁 .#MedEd #Medtwitter #TipsForNewDocs #FOAMed #FOAMcc #SCCM2023 #SCCMSoMe

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🚨Excellent “Must Know” emergency/ICU medications .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed.#FOAMcc #MedStudentTwitter

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🙋‍♂️Clinicians Pocket Guide to Vasopressors .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc . H/T @BrownJHM

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🚨Overdose Antidotes & Drug Reversal Agents. 🛟 Might Save a life! .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc #FOAMed

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Brilliant visual breakdown of types of lung inflammation.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed . More enlightening medical art from @DocScribbles

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🙋‍♂️ Best bedside #POCUS & Echo summary I have seen!.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc. Thanks to @DocScribbles for this amazing medical art!

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Absorption of water & nutrients within the human GI tract 💡.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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💊🚨 Vitamin supplementation in kidney disease: chronic kidney disease & dialysis.#MedEd #MedTwitter #Nutrition #Kidney #dialysis #Vitamin #FOAMed

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1/3-💥 12 KEY TRIALS I teach on #ICU Rounds trainees must know!. BACK by request for new residents/fellows!. ❓Do you agree?. ❓What others would you add?. 1. ARDSNET @NEJM -PMID 10793162. 2. LEUVEN Glucose 1 @NEJM-PMID 11794168. 3. SAFE Trial @NEJM PMID: 15163774.#FOAMcc

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💧IV fluid pearls: What’s in IV fluids & how much stays intravascular?.#MedEd #MedTwitter . H/T @BrownJHM

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🪡 Vertical mattress sutures. #MedEd #MedTwitter #surgery #surgeon #ScienceTwitter #AcademicTwitter #FOAMed . H/T @Innov_Medicine

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Electrolytes & EKG Changes.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc

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Evaluation of Hyponatremia 💡.#MedEd #MedTwitter

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🫁 Airway/Laryngeal anatomy .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed.#FOAMcc #SCCM2023 #SCCMSoMe . Brilliant video from @Innov_Medicine

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Electrolytes and ECG changes📍 .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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How big are the cells? . Microorganisms in perspective 🦠.#Biology #MedTwitter #Science

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🩸Blood: Who can receive what blood type.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc . H/T @Innov_Medicine

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🙋‍♂️ How not to make any rash decisions when describing skin lesions….#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed. More amazing work from @DocScribbles

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❤️ 4 determinants of cardiac output.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed . Great work by @DocScribbles

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Evaluation of Hyponatremia 💡.#MedEd #MedTwitter . H/T @AvrahamCooperMD

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📍Gallbladder diseases - simplified .#MedEd #MedTwitter #GITwitter

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🚨 Amazing Automated CPR Machine.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc

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Absorption of water and nutrients within the human GI tract 📌.#MedEd #MedTwitter #ISICEM23

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1/3-💥 12 KEY TRIALS I teach on #ICU Rounds each week trainees must know!. BACK by request!. Do you agree?.Any you would add?. 1. ARDSNET @NEJM -PMID 10793162. 2. LEUVEN Glucose 1 @NEJM-PMID 11794168. 3. SAFE Trial @NEJM PMID: 15163774.#FOAMcc #MedTwitter #MedEd.#SCCMSoMe #FOAMed

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💩How laxatives work- courtesy of @enrrikke & @drkeithsiau #MedEd #MedTwitter . Remember BOSS for the 4 classes 💡🧠 #GIMnemonics. B: Bulk-forming.O: Osmotic.S: Stool softeners.S: Stimulant. Key in #ICU & all medicine areas

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Functions of the colon and colonic flora #4KMedEd #MedEd . H/T @drkeithsiau

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📌 Glucose Metabolism . An amazing & versatile substrate! 🍒. #Biology #Metabolism #Nutrition #MedEd #Science

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2 years

Absorption of water & nutrients within the human GI tract 📌. #MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed.#TipsForNewDocs #Health #medicalstudent #medicine #nutrition #Nutrición #nutritionmatters #NutritionisaScience #nutricion

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🙋‍♂️This video shows a modified Valsalva maneuver being used in the emergency treatment of stable SVT 🫀(supraventricular tachycardia)! Learn more👇. This awesome ER team was able to temporarily convert a stable paroxysmal SVT back into sinus rhythm!.This is a beautiful example of

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❤️ Excellent ECG interpretation Overview.#MedEd #Medtwitter #FOAMed.#FOAMcc #medicalstudents #TipsForNewDocs #ECG #medicine

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🙋‍♂️ 41 yo in the hospital 🏥 for 20 days with sickle cell pain crisis. What’s the diagnosis?.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc

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When you lose weight, where does the weight actually go? 🤔. Turns out, YOU EXHALE IT FROM YOUR LUNGS AS CO2 🤯. #MedTwitter #MedEd #NutritionMatters . 🙏 Love this wisdom from @AvrahamCooperMD

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Lab Value Memory Tricks 💡. #NursingNotes #Nclex .#MedEd #MedTwitter.H/T @DrPharmDMDTh

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🙋‍♂️ Extraordinary scans that reveal what obesity does to a human.#MedEd #FOAMed #obesity #nutrition #dietitian #TipsForNewDocs #Medical #Medstudents #NutritionMatters #Health

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⚡️Surgical incision names .#MedEd #MedTwitter #Surgery #FOAMcc .H/T @OGdukeneurosurg

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🙏 Please pray for my Mom…. My mom is on ventilator with septic shock & pneumonia on vasopressors in ICU at @missouribap medical center in St. Louis, Missouri. She is receiving great care and we remain hopeful ❤️‍🩹.#Hope #Prayers

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🙋‍♂️Brilliant Fever of Unknown Origin Summary . Great work by @DocScribbles

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Major causes of lactic acidosis & their mechanisms. 🔗 N Engl J Med 2014;371:2309-2319.#MedEd #FOAMcc #SCCMSoMe H/T @NephroP

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🩻 How to read a chest x-ray .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed . More amazing medical art from @DocScribbles!

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📌GI Absorption Sites of Nutrients .#MedEd #Nutrition #GITwitter #NutritionMatters . Amazing work & credit to @dietitiansondemand on @instagram

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🫁 Brilliant visual breakdown of types of lung inflammation.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed.#FOAMcc #medicalstudent . Incredible medical art from @DocScribbles

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4 years

Distribution of IV fluids after infusion 💧💡 #4KMedEd #MedEd #MedTwitter. (Courtesy of @bmj_latest).H/T @drkeithsiau

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Classification of antibiotics .#MedEd #FOAMed #MedTwitter.#FOAMcc #Pharmacology. H/T @Innov_Medicine

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🙋‍♂️ Electrolyte abnormalities signs & symptoms .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed . H/T @NutrioSci

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📌 GI Absorption Sites of Nutrients . Amazing work by @dietitiansondemand .#MedEd #Nutrition #MedTwitter

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Obesity Medications: Excellent Summary From JAMA.@jamanetwork . 🔗

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🔬Approach to pancytopenia .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc. (Handout from Run The List podcast @runthelistpod) & H/T @BrownJHM

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Functions of the colon and colonic flora #4KMedEd #MedEd . H/T @drkeithsiau

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Best chest x-ray anatomy guide ever 🫁 #MedEd #Medtwitter . H/T @AvrahamCooperMD .Via @radiologistpage

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⚠️ Propofol leads to ⬆️ risk of ZINC deficiency via urine losses. Limit use to few days! . #Propofol adverse effects include.- Is a Mitochondrial Toxin.- Mixed in 👎 omega-6 lipid.- ⬆️ post-ICU weakness.- ☠️ Propofol-infusion syndrome. We have better choices! #ICU.#FOAMcc #MedEd

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“Must-Know” Meds 💉💊.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc. H/T @BrownJHM

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Approach to hyponatremia 💡 #4KMedEd #MedEd. H/T @drkeithsiau

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Gallbladder diseases - simplified #MedEd #MedTwitter . H/T @drkeithsiau

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Thanks for everyone’s incredible support & inspiring words 🙏. I really need them now as I just discovered I have evolved peritonitis & a new GI fistula. This was the dread complication I feared post-op. This will be be quite a hill to climb 🧗‍♀️- but know & #believe I will recover

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❤️‍🩹 Happy World Ostomy Day! . So grateful 🙏🙏 for the ostomy that saved my life & gave me the opportunity to care for others as a physician, become a husband, father, and experience the amazing life I have been blessed with! . #WorldOstomyDay .#OstomyDay2022 #Ostomy

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Liver Transplant Surgery.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMcc

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💡Differential Diagnosis of Elevated Liver Enzymes.#MedEd #MedTwitter

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🙋‍♂️Approach to Pancytopenia causes & work up.#MedEd #FOAMed #MedTwitter . ☑️ Don’t forgot copper, B12, folate & malnutrition as causes! . (Handout from Run The List podcast @runthelistpod & h/t @BrownJHM)

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Landmarks on CXR 🫁. #MedEd #MedTwitter . H/T @drkeithsiau

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🙋‍♂️Amazing 🫀 Ultrasound Teaching Video! . 👉 Useful for learning parastenal long & short axis views of heart . H/T @FOAMfrat for excellent teaching tool.#FOAMcc #MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMrad #FOAMed

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💊 How a pill travels to your stomach.#MedEd #MedTwitter . #biology by ghostmedical & @slava__bobrov

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❤️ ECG Interpretation: The Basics .#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed. H/T @BrownJHM

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Absorption of water and nutrients within the human GI tract 📌.#MedEd #MedTwitter #GITwitter

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💡Light’s criteria for pleural effusions.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed.#TipsForNewDocs #MedicalStudents #medicine #FOAMcc . Thanks to @DocScribbles.for brilliant medical art!

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🫁 Algorithm for Differential Diagnosis of Hypoxia .#MedEd #MedTwitter. H/T @BrownJHM .

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❤️‍🩹 Happy World Ostomy Day! . So grateful for the ostomy that saved my life & gave me the opportunity to care for others as a physician, become a father, and experience the amazing life I have been blessed with! 🙏. #WorldOstomyDay .#OstomyDay2023 #Ostomy #Stoma #MedTwitter #IBD

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💡GI tract transit times.#MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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Non-ischaemic killer ECG patterns ⚠️ #MedEd . (Courtesy of @rob_buttner & @LITFLblog) .H/T @drkeithsiau

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🙋‍♂️ AMAZING intubated ICU patient playing volleyball. 👉NOTICE only 1 physical therapist needed. 🎯 Early mobility should be standard of care in all ICU’s 🌎. 👉Sedation can allow pts to be awake w/o pain-see @WesElyMD A-F bundle!. ❓Does your ICU walk intubated patients?. H/T

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