Ubaldo La Brocca
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🇪🇺🇮🇹 MD👨⚕️ Pre-Hospital Emergency 🚑 Anesthesia and Critical Care ⚡️
Torino, Piemonte
Joined August 2011
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people.
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“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley
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Understanding the McGinn-White Sign (S1Q3T3 Pattern) The McGinn-White Sign is a classic but uncommon, ECG finding in acute pulmonary embolism (PE) or other causes of acute right heart strain (e.g., cor pulmonale). It consists of the S1Q3T3 pattern: 🔵 A prominent S wave in
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“In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest.” — Charlie Munger
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"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time." — Charlie Munger
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80% of the diagnosis is in the history, 80% of the examination is in the inspection.
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«Ho deciso di conoscere la sapienza e la scienza, come anche la stoltezza e la follia, e ho capito che anche questo è un correre dietro al vento. Infatti: molta sapienza, molto affanno; chi accresce il sapere aumenta il dolore.» (Qohelet 1, 17-18) #LectioPetri
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"Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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ESICM guidelines on circulatory shock and hemodynamic monitoring 2025! https://t.co/XSgHeTFRXy
@AndromedaShock @Manu_Malbrain @SheilaMyatra
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REBOA = higher mortality (47% vs 36%), more transfusions, longer time to OR. No survival benefit. Check the new study by Hatchimonji et al. https://t.co/RnQGoCdJXI and Jansen's commentary https://t.co/s3qqRcWi6C.
@jhatchmd @dianehaddadmd @pdowzicky @markseamonmd
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How the ECG Tells You Where VT Is Coming From 1️⃣ When a rhythm comes from the ventricles, it travels slowly across muscle instead of racing through the Purkinje system. That’s why VT is wide, fast, and regular.
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Are we interpreting VExUS correctly? If you are not sure about this, please check this 👇 https://t.co/PqnvHH5ltI
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The Venous Excess Ultrasound (VExUS) score has been developed to grade venous congestion and predict acute kidney injury in cardiac surgical setting by combining inferior vena cava diameter with...
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Many of us are still learning how to use VExUS in our clinical practice. Here's a concise paper to help some jump on board. 🎩 tip to the author. https://t.co/Sfr6vCn6le
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«Credente non è chi ha creduto una volta per tutte, ma chi in obbedienza al participio presente del verbo, rinnova il suo credo continuamente», scrive @Erriders. La fede è una scelta quotidiana, un impegno esistenziale, un amore autentico.
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A simplified ANDROMEDA- SHOCK-2 algorithm display by Jesus Nieves from Spain! As he said complex at first glance but quite easy when practicing!! Thanks Jesus😍😍
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Among patients with early #SepticShock, a personalized hemodynamic resuscitation protocol targeting capillary refill time was superior to usual care for the primary composite outcome, primarily driven by a lower duration of vital support. #LIVES2025 @ESICM
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The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score is the most widely used tool for evaluating organ dysfunction. This week, JAMA published the SOFA-2 score, a data-driven update that incorporates current organ support therapies and introduces new scoring thresholds.
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