Primarily a dad. Also a trauma surgeon, ICU doc and scientist @UNMC. Favorite passtime is dispelling medical and scientific mythology
Omaha, NE
Joined January 2020
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Congrats to @ErinWei and her team at UNMC Dermatology for this innovative study in @JTHjournal on fibrinolytic resistance and hypercoagulability in autoimmune bullous diseases! @unmc @healourskin @UNMCCOM
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Woohoo! More of our residents doing cool things - Dr. Maginot (@e_magination95) presenting about the tPA-challenged TEG in trauma patient at AAST Annual Conference @traumadoctors @UNMC_ACS @ChrisBarrettMD
Thanks to @MedcalfRobert and Prof. Yukio Ozaki for the opportunity to be an Associate Editor @Thrombosis_J , excited for the future of the journal!
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great to get this update on role of viscoelastic assays across ALL phases of trauma care out with @jpmeizoso @HBuMoore @ErnestEMooreMD1 need to get a meeting put together to standardize indications for use @JanHartmannMD
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Our tPA trial for COVID is out! Thx to all! tPA bolus group with significantly improved oxygenation. 12 less days on vent (12 more VFD) & half mortality in tPA bolus group, signal persisted at each interim, need larger N to eval for significance. No ICH!
On Monday we finished enrollment in our multicenter Phase 2a RCT "STudy of Alteplase for Respiratory failure in Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2/COVID‐19" (The STARS trial, NCT04357730)...study design described in onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… stay tuned for results!
a refugee blown out to sea by a typhoon at age 9, survived, came to US, then became a US Army Ranger and 3rd BCT 25th ID Command Sergeant Major, somebody should make a movie out of this guy's life. Its truly an incredible story of America at its best home.army.mil/hawaii/index.p…
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To honor our beloved colleague & friend, we established the Khalid Khwaja, MD Faculty Award, which will be given annually to a jr. faculty member who fosters what Dr. Khwaja stood for: collaboration, respectfulness, compassion & a shared sense of purpose. bit.ly/37STzcA
great paper by @CareRutgers Sarah Orfanos, @JaredRadbel et al showing reduced dead space ventilation with tPA dosing in COVID ARDS! Response was best with early use after intubation and in those with highest levels of fibrinogen...great work! bit.ly/2GdM44a
check out This Week in Virology with guests me and @mbyaffe discussing the missteps and misprioritization in our National COVID-19 responses, from medicine to science to government. Thanks @profvrr for having us!
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On the latest #TWiV Daniel Griffin's #COVID19 report including role of vitamin D, Michael and Christopher explain why we have made all the wrong moves during the pandemic, evidence that D614G improves transmission in hamsters, and listener questions bit.ly/3ivQ65i
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Editorial by @mbyaffe and myself came out in Science Signaling today on the shortcomings in our scientific and medical response to COVID-19...check it out if you get a chance @BIDMCSurgery @kochinstitute
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"These failures reflect a “perfect storm” of governmental ineptitude, scientific ignorance/misprioritization, and the abdication of medical training to market-driven forces."
A stinging editorial that is spot on.
stke.sciencemag.org/content/… @scisignal by @mbyaffe and @ChrisBarrettMD
One of my fav projects w/ @HBuMoore @CUDeptSurg , still refining, but dichotimizes risk 4 massive transfusion & hyperfibrinolysis in trauma in 5 mins! (& now doing study w/ACT machines in trauma & liver txp 2 get answer in ~2-3 mins thx 2 @ILWorldwide ), journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abs…
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Hard to understand why people are more comfortable watching the natural history of disease while awaiting RCT's to finish. It is a clotting disorder...if it weren't, why do otherwise healthy people show up with presenting symptom of thromboembolic stroke?
Dolhnikoff et al last month in JTH: 8 of 10 autopsies with diffuse pulm microthrombi in COVID. Ackermann et al last week in NEJM: 10 of 10 autopsies with diffuse pulm microthrombi. Fox et al in Lancet Resp Med yesterday: 10 of 10 with diffuse pulm microthrombi. Its clear, need AC
FDA just issued our IND to start our Phase 2 multi-center RCT of tPA in COVID respiratory failure! Finally!! Stay tuned...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Our response to ISTH guidance on COVID-19 coagulation management. Worth a read. In the absence if an RCT, the unknown has to be treated by clinical observation and clinical reasoning. Our take: anticoagulate early and aggressively. @BIDMCSurgery
can anyone help get FDA moving? IND's for potential coronavirus therapies supposed to take days, not weeks/months! @cnnbrk @drsanjaygupta @CBSNews @ABC @nytimes
@US_FDA @SteveFDA applied 4 IND for tPA in critically ill COVID under Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program 8d ago, no progress, now been "reassigned" aka starting over, also told they wont review until week of April 27th!? CTAP program supposed to only take "days". Help?
apnews.com/5c0dc863f214d32a5… our ideas are starting to gain traction...and work! Best dosing TBD in our Phase 2a, coming soon! @Bloodman @BIDMCSurgery @BIDMCAnesthesia @SShaefi @emlitofnote