PGY-6 UCLA/USC/LAG trained | ‘21- @medicalcollege | @LMSA_Midwest 🇵🇷 🇲🇽ΛΘΦ-SP 12 @lambdas1975 | EM/Anesthesia/CCM | Sports Med / Combat Medicine
Wisconsin, USA
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Today I received the news I’ve been offered a job in Los Angeles, CA with @UCLAEMRes as a resident physician 😭. Southside boy from Milwaukee never woulda imagined getting to this point. S/O to my other A1s who came through @sanbenito @maluma @JBALVIN #Match2021
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
EMCrit Wee - The RSI Trial - Etomidate vs. Ketamine for RSI Induction in the critically ill. These results are practice changing for many resuscitationists! I know it will change my practice. Listen to this interview with lead authors:
@JonathanCaseyMD and @brian_driver
[#FOAMed for now!]
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
🧵 Albumin in Critical Care: 70 Years, 700 Papers… Zero Benefit
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Albumin is the most studied fluid in critical care.
Decades of trials. Endless meta-analyses.
And yet – not a single clinically meaningful benefit.
Here’s why the entire theory collapses once you understand Extended Starling. 👇
🤖 Made with AI
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
1/ Wild cardiac arrest with #POCUS playing a major role
An elderly male was sent from the nursing home in cardiac arrest. Per the prehospital report that we got, the patient was in vfib and refractory to 5 defib attempts. The patient got amio as well as several doses of epi.
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
Resident: “I’m so happy today is my last day of ICU ever”
Makes me sad that residents have lost interest in ICU. Learning physiology and learnimg to take care of critically ill patients will make you a better anesthesiologist
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
(1/x) Intubating a critically ill patients is the most dangerous procedure we do in the ICU (3.1% cardiac arrest rate) not because of hypoxia or tube placement, but hemodynamic collapse 🫀
(Russotto et al. JAMA 2021)
A 🧵on making high risk hemodynamic intubations as safe as possible.
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
Here’s the CT Scan of a patient with a history of schizophrenia who presented to the ER with abdominal pain
What’s the diagnosis?
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
Similar to a prior 🧵regarding traumatic deaths in 'The Iliad':
Here I will examine the deaths in the movie 'Braveheart' to estimate how many of these might have been prevented if modern level 1 trauma centers and surgical care were available in Scotland at the time.
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#MedTwitter any AI programs you’ve used that been helpful for literature reviews & research curious to hear. Feel free to DM me 🌞
Very excited to be taking my training to the next level starting in Summer 2025 training at the Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship program with @USCAnesCCM . Thankful to @MedicalCollege and @UCLAEMRes for an outstanding first 8 years of Med-Ed and Emergency training. #ICU #EM
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
By age 35, every critical care clinician should have six PowerPoint presentations about basic clinical topics with no animations, a set of scrubs stolen from a minimum of three hospitals, and an iPhone video of a SonoSite screen showing cardiac tamponade.
#medtwitter
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
Big news! We're excited to announce our partnership with one of Milwaukee's longest-tenured agencies, @cramerkrasselt.
We're excited to start developing the brand and name of the club with an agency who truly knows MKE culture.
We'll be on WISN 12 at 4:15pm today, tune in!
😎😎😎😎
And of course el carnal @El_DocChristian delivered me a gift overnight on #nationallatinophysicianday 😆
Christian Hernandez, MD retweeted
Fridays in the ED @UCLAEMRes with @El_DocChristian (he said this was the first time he wore his white coat in 3 years lol)
