Nick Mark MD

@msiuba @critconcepts @msenussiMD @iceman_ex @OnePagerICU My rule is you get to say “sontimeter” if you commit to temperature in “sontigrade” & saying “a dollar & fifty Sonts”

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A historical note about rounds. A century ago, residents had to go all over the hospital to collect the data: medical records for the PMHx, lab for lab results, radiology to revie...

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At long last, here is part 5️⃣ in my animal #physiology in the ICU series #FOAMed Case 1: You are called about a very high blood glucose (BG) value: 738 mg/dL (41 mM)! The RN ask...

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Here’s a fun ICU riddle - why do these two different patients both have funny colored effluent in their CRRT bags? #FOAMed #FOAMcc 1/ https://t.co/t0xbZjjS1L

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Remember that Vitamin C cures sepsis paper that could never be replicated in 9 RCTs? Turns out there is a good reason why: it’s very likely fraudulent. More brilliant statistical...

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Here’s a situation many of us have seen in the ICU or ED: “It looked like there was ST elevation on the monitor but when I took a 12 lead it was gone?!” A STEMI went MIA? Here’s a...

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Ivermectin proponents point to in vitro studies as proof of efficacy One problem: the dose required in vitro (IC50) to inhibit #COVID is 30-90x higher than the plasma or tissue le...

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People are citing reports of declining #COVID cases or deaths after mass #ivermectin distribution. This is the scientific equivalent of “the rain stopped after I bought an umbrella...

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Lots of talk about funny hemoglobin and ‘happy hypoxic’ people with #COVID19. I think we can explain everything using plain old pulmonary physiology. Let’s dive into hypoxic pulmon...

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