An intensivist on a learning frenzy. Caring for the critically ill using evidence-based medicine.
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 long collection fun/interesting articles I have found and posted to my stories on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook but I do not have the time to completely cover. My intention is for you to click on the link and download the article for FREE! In the industry, this is known as FOAMed, …
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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 …
Is your shop still using strict NPO after midnight for its surgical patients? It’s time to talk to the powers that be to have this changed, supported by evidence, of course. The controversy of “Strict NPO After Midnight” has been ongoing for many years now as the data has suggested it’s silly but still performed. …
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