An intensivist on a learning frenzy. Caring for the critically ill using evidence-based medicine.
Dr James Stoller from the Cleveland Clinic published this review on emotional intelligence needed in ICU physicians/practitioners. You can be the smartest person in the world but unless you have developed the key components of emotional intelligence, many of those skills will not have their time to shine. When I was in training, I cared for …
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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 …
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This page contains a lengthy collection of fun/exciting (to me at least) FOAMed articles I have shared on Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook. Many have been discussed on The Saving Lives Podcast. Consider subscribing to my monthly newsletter to receive everything I posted that month. Many articles were obtained from Rob Mac Sweeney's newsletter. …
50000 followers on Instagram. Such a crazy number. Never would I have thought that the desire to learn evidence-based medicine to be so much that this many people would be reading my posts, commenting, and sharing with friends and colleagues. Ashley Adkins (@asheyadkinsrn) mentioned to me several months ago when we were both quickly ascending …
Back in December 2017, I found out that I had passed my ABIM board certification exam for critical care medicine. I created this video on youtube for those who are interested in learning about the methodologies I pursued to be able to pass this challenging exam. Needless to say, it was the most challenging board …
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Several years ago, I took and passed my ABIM Board Certification exam for Internal Medicine. I made this video for YouTube when I was a younger whipper snapper and it has proven to have been quite helpful for some. In this video, I go over the different methods which I used to study for and …
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The following are places where I am going to be doing my lectures in the upcoming months:2020April 4: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL: Link to ProgramInnovations in Cerebrovascular Science Conference: Topic "Pulmonary Disorders in Acute Neurological Injury"Cancelled. May 14: West Palm Beach, FL: Link to Program Topics: Fluids and Metabolic Resuscitation, Lactic Acidosis, NIV and HFNCCancelled.May 25-29: Maui, …
I'm certain that the entirety of this post will not fit in the character limit on IG so you'll have to head over to my website to read it completely (don't blame you if you don't! 😉) Time to take a deep breath: 20,000 Instagram followers. When I was approaching 10,000 instagram followers, I was …