Internist, hospitalist, medical educator, ultrasound enthusiast. Thoughts do not reflect opinions of my employers.

Joined October 2017
Keith Barron retweeted
Big thanks to @OlszynskiP for organizing this collaborative, multidisciplinary response to @CARadiologists problematic #POCUS position statement Endorsed by @CAEP_Docs @CAEP_EUC @ACEP_EUS @CASUpdate @ceus_scedu @critcaresociety @SCUFellowships @ePOCUS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
It's 2019, yet radiologists @CARadiologists still want to tell us how to use #POCUS So many problems with this "position statement"/opinion piece, not the least, the lack of evidence for many of their statements @CAEP_EUC @CAEP_Docs @ACEP_EUS @SAEMAEUS @ePOCUS @SCUFellowships
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Excellent! "The question is beginning to transition from whether one should learn [lung ultrasound] to a question of if it is possible to justify continuing to use the inferior diagnostic modality of CXR for patients?"
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I recently tried to explain the anion gap to someone... And really struggled. Here’s an update of the gamblegram graphic from @thecurbsiders’ acid-base episode, in case anyone else has as hard of a time as I did! #MedStudentTwitter #NephTwitter
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Keith Barron retweeted
Core Competencies for #IMPOCUS published by European Federation of Internal Medicine. Congrats @jtorresmacho for leading the effort to advance #POCUS in Europe sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Keith Barron retweeted
More support for #IMPOCUS - Awesome work from the European Federation of Internal Medicine! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Comparative Performance of Pulmonary Ultrasound, Chest... : Critical Care Medicine journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/…
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Replying to @AnnalsofIM
@AnnalsofIM review online today: #pocus can help diagnose increased intracranial pressure annals.org/aim/article-abstr…
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"A normal sheath diameter measurement has high sensitivity and a low negative likelihood ratio that may rule out increased intracranial pressure"
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Thank you #UncleBob aka @medrants for the opportunity to discuss my fav subject: #IMpocus! @thecurbsiders nation, your @KashlakHospital POCUS chief selfishly recommends you listen 😂@AIUMultrasound @susmeorg @POCUS_Society @IM_POCUS @IMSonoSC @SonoInternist @G2Disrupt @ETSshow
#UncleBob proudly presents #5goodminutes with the great @DRsonosRD Bedside Ultrasonography to Diagnose Cardiac Disease @AnnalsofIM @ACPinternists bit.ly/2r33KIg
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Great course! Thanks @AIUMultrasound
That’s a wrap—Thanks to this crew for making the AIUM’s 1st POCUS Hands-on Training Course for Beginners a success! Look out for recaps next week on LinkedIn & Facebook.
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Packed house at day 2 of the #AIUM’s Hands-on POC Ultrasound for Beginners – at Konterra, MD
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Keith Barron retweeted
Our focused cardiac ultrasound learner core doc by @HeartDocSharon @shanearish Drs. Sarah Weeks and Kristin Lyons is now online #CIMUS #IMPOCUS: tinyurl.com/t823qku Or you can find it on cimus.ca under the cardiac tab.
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Great updates to an excellent image storage site!
Major SonoClipShare.com upgrade today. Highlights include: 1) tagging system to track over-reads, quality, and diagnosis 2) stats page summarizing data [sens/spec/acc] 3) new archive thumbnail view 4-10x faster loading 4) archive multi-share #FOAMed
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Go team!
Congrats to our #SCACP2019 Doctor’s Dilemma champions from Prisma Health-USC SOM Columbia! #IMProud #ACP #IMResidency #MedEd
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In 24 hrs, will be giving a talk w/ @Marty_Fried on Social Media & Medicine #ACPOhio2019. Want to show the broad & wide reach of the platform. Can I get an assist retweet from my #MedTwitter friends? @aoglasser @tony_breu @AdamRodmanMD @gradydoctor @thecurbsiders @COREIMpodcast – at Columbus, OH
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Useless medical word of the day: upper and lower extremity. Are the words arm and leg too much? Or are we just allowing that we might eventually take care of patients with tentacles?
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This graphic coming soon to an internal medicine department near you...
Why should you do an ultrasound fellowship? It'll help you get hired! Per 2014 article, Ultrasound is the most desirable fellowship academic EM chairs look at when hiring new attending physicians @SCUFellowships @ACEP_EUS @SAEMAEUS doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2… #POCUS #EMsono
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Keith Barron retweeted
Announcing our latest #QI paper: Reducing PICC and midline catheters by training nurses in ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous catheter placement ⁦@BMJ_Qual_Saf⁩ ⁦@EinsteinMed⁩ ⁦@einsteinmedicin⁩ ⁦@MontefioreNYC⁩ #POCUS qualitysafety.bmj.com/conten…
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Next time the "oxygen fairy" visits your patient overnight, show him (I'm assuming it's a him...) this great @AnnalsofIM review on how the long-held belief that O2 is not harmful is wrong! annals.org/aim/article-abstr…
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