An intensivist on a learning frenzy. Caring for the critically ill using evidence-based medicine.
To those of you who don't know me, I am a Critical Care Medicine Physician. I love my job. You all should be able to clearly see that in the passion for my work. Why else would I be exerting all this effort on social media for almost free? If I won the lottery tomorrow, …
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I covered this topic about hypophosphatemia in the critically ill back in the infancy of my Instagram account on 4/19/2019. Seems like an eternity ago. I know it's not very Zentensivist of me to have this as part of my practice, but this is something I actively chase in my patients. Phosphorus, generally speaking, is …
Continue reading Phosphorus/Hypophosphatemia in the Critically Ill: Let’s Correct it!
So glad you're interested in becoming an Intensivist and looking into starting a Critical Care Fellowship! Let's get the simple stuff out of the way. You need to go to college and obtain the prerequisites to get you into a medical school. The MCAT needs to be completed. In medical school you need to pass …
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To those of you who are not familiar with my work on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, as well as my website, eddyjoemd.com my name is Eddy Joe. I am an Internal Medicine trained, board certified Critical Care Physician. My passion is taking care of the critically ill patients. This post is going to go through, as …
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When you obtain a basic metabolic panel (BMP) or complete metabolic panel (CMP), you get the usual values reported on it: Na, K, Cl, carbon dioxide (CO2), glucose, BUN, creatinine, etc. The value that seems to cause the most confusion is the "carbon dioxide/CO2". This especially happens while I'm teaching on rounds where my mind …
Continue reading Bicarbonate (Carbon Dioxide/CO2) on Serum BMP & Blood Gases/ABG
Part of the motivation of curating my Instagram account and my website to where it is today was to leverage the efforts of the nine lectures I am about to finish creating. These lectures are suitable for Continuing Medical Education, CME. They do not contain commercial bias. They should be eligible for AMA PRA Category …
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I am thrilled the Choosing Wisely Campaign has looked upon this data. Upon my first foray into the ICU as a PGY-1 many moons ago, we would not be able to go home until we put in orders for all of our patients. Amongst those things that we would order daily included chest x-rays for …
Continue reading Choosing Wisely: Daily Chest X-ray while on Mechanical Ventilation
We’re getting better with our management of out of hospital cardiac arrest via quality bystander CPR. The majority of this credit should go to the organizations such as the AHA who puts together programs taught by firefighters, paramedics and EMT’s (forgive me if I screw up the semantics) to health care personnel and the lay …
This is a big impactful study looking at administering Dexamethasone to patients with ARDS. I'm happy it came out, really happy. To start off a big hat tip to my colleagues in España who put this together. ARDS sucks. It's a b-word to treat and patients spend a frustratingly long time to come off of …
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Yesterday, @yournursingeducator created a great post on Code Blue tips. @fobiesme asked a very legitimate question regarding how to proceed in patients who are s/p bypass or any open chest situation in the CVICU. This was something I wondered about myself even as someone who taught ACLS for the AHA at a point in my …
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