Oregon, USA
Joined August 2019
Do you have questions about how #resuscitation is changing with the new 2020 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC? Join the scientists who wrote them in an #AskMeAnything from 3 to 5 p.m. CT today at spr.ly/6017GAcIb @AshPanchalMD @AlexisTopjian @DrAzizNeo @KateMBerg Adam Cheng
“He kept saying: ‘I’m going to get Covid, and then I’m going to die. And if I die, I want my family there.’" Fear is gripping not just people who are ill with the coronavirus, but those in urgent need of other medical care. nyti.ms/36sU5vf
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Heart attacks, festering infections and lack of medication to treat chronic disease can all lead to lasting complications or even death without timely treatment. bit.ly/3bP3JJB
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To all the Nurses out there - especially our friends at Harborview - you’re legends.
Incredible short film from Harborview in Seattle. Just in case you forgot that #COVID19 is an extremely dangerous disease that spares some and devastates others for reasons that are not well understood. h/t: @nicchik90 Click here: player.mediaamp.io/p/U8-EDC/…
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“I slept 19 hours a day, and it still didn’t feel like enough.” Thoka Maer, 35, illustrated our collection of first-person accounts from people like her who were also sickened by the coronavirus — in many cases severely. nyti.ms/2WzA01S
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We've deleted an earlier tweet and updated a sentence in our article that implied that only "some experts" view the ingestion of household disinfectants as dangerous. To be clear, there is no debate on the danger.
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This is great! We’re finishing video created for Johns Hopkins ie to create a shared mental model and standardize our choreography for #ProneCPR KEY to minimizing pauses and Important to have targets for diastolic blood pressure!! #COVID19 @BenjaminAbella @comilla_s @sawyer_kn
In 2020, Coronavirus (Covid-19) has indeed changed CPR Guidelines. Due to the Pandemic Crisis and God’s work, the AHA and ECC had finally endorsed PRONE CPR as a Solution for Prone Ventilated Cardiac Arrest Patient. “Whether like it or not, there’s no choice but to practice it”.
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Hi, ER Doc here. Do NOT inject or consume ANY disinfectants in an attempt to kill COVID19.
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“I’m humbled by the number of people in all areas coming together... with a common goal to keep us safe.” — Matthias Merkel, MD, PhD. Read more about Dr. Merkel’s work at OHSU during the COVID-19 response: bit.ly/3cvjHJR #OHSUHeroes #HealthcareHeroes
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On Friday, @Nike delivered its first shipment of full-face shields and powered, air-purifying respirator, or PAPR, lenses to OHSU frontline workers. bit.ly/34lngiN #COVID19 #PPE
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Great to be back in the sim theater for #Covid19 code blue simulation w/ @SimulatedNicole
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To hear us talk about it, you’d think a hospital was only populated with doctors and nurses... sometimes we will add on mention of “and other staff.” We can’t care for a single patient without those “other staff.” Here are a few (thread).
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Information and data are KEY to help drive decisions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s an article we found that speaks to the importance of testing and data-driven decision making: ow.ly/EAcG50yTBMV
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Seattle-King County just posted the wildly popular Return To Work Algorithm created by one of our stars, Dr. Betty Yang. #wow @bettyy0 emsonline.net/assets/2020-An…
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Scientists are wrestling with one of the most pressing questions of the pandemic: Whether people who survive the infection become immune to the virus nyti.ms/2UhKjaM
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Nice work @UWMedicine medical student Marianne Meyers. Quick Take: Airway management lessons learned for #COVID19 patients ems1.com/ems-products/medica…
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