On his IG page (@zentensivist) Dr. Siuba asked the question, "are we intubating COVID patients too late?" As another wave of COVID lingers over our head, this question is an important one. One year ago, we watched as COVID patients were intubated early only to face the cascade of complications to follow. Similarly, now we watch some COVID patients struggle on noninvasive ventilation only to inevitably need emergent intubation. Is there a right time to intubate these patients? Will we ever find the sweet spot?

Dr. Matt Siuba is a medical intensivist at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. He focuses on circulatory shock as well as severe forms of respiratory failure, especially Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Additionally, he's interested in ICU procedures, particularly point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and difficult vascular access.

He's a passionate medical educator and serves as the associate program director for the Critical Care Medicine fellowship. He's also a senior editor and regular content contributor at CriticalCareNow.com, focused on mechanical ventilation, respiratory care, and airway management.

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2020 Lippincott Advisor - Nursing Care Plans for Medical Diagnoses: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) https://www.nursingcenter.com/nursingcenter_redesign/media/nursingcenter/coronavirus%20files%20from%20Lippincott%20Solutions/©-2020-Lippincott-Advisor-Nursing-Care-Plans-for-Medical-Diagnoses_-Coronavirus-disease-2019-(COVID-19).pdf

Ricard, JD., Roca, O., Lemiale, V. et al. Use of nasal high flow oxygen during acute respiratory failure. Intensive Care Med 46, 2238–2247 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06228-7

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Kennen is a 4th year PhD student in neuroinvasive virology at Northwestern in Chicago hes the creator and host of Science with Kennen on YouTube.... he’s on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, he’s been on MTV — look him up!

We talked about fun stuff and Kennen’s work. Then we also took listener suggested questions at the end and WE GOT DEEP into what we want for the future and our legacies

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Dan's back for another medical topic! Today we discuss what to do when your patient codes. What are the MDs responsibilities? What are the RNs responsibilities? We give  real life examples of different codes we've participated in, the real world vs ACLS algorithm, and talk about how to mentally prepare for codes. We also take tips and tricks from experienced RNs & MDs about what helps them during codes.... and what annoys them. 

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Dr. Marcus Tellez is a Board Certified Family Medicine physician working in LA. During residency he volunteered his time helping medical students at a local LGBTQ clinic and presented an LGBTQ+ health lecture at the annual Flordia Academy of Family Physicians conference. He's also collaborated with the local Pride Center to provide educational lectures to the public. Beyond that, his fun and creative posts combined with education makes him one of Abby's favorite IG accounts!

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Abby, Dr. Fulmer, & Dr. Roundz get together for a check in! 

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What do radiologist do? Where are they located in the hospital? Who works in their department? Why aren't nurses taught how to read imaging? What's interventional radiology? Abby has A LOT of questions and Dr. Baig answers all of them. Asad Baig is a radiology resident in the NYC area with the intention of specializing in interventional radiology. This is a long episode because Dr. Baig is so much fun to talk to and him and Abby talked about so many in-depth topics.  

Please note, this episode was recorded about a week before Thanksgiving. Sorry for the weird timelines, we are working on it!

Topics: Radiology residency, needle & wire access, a day in the life of an IR MD, how an IR MD performs a procedure to find the source of an unknown bleed, IR nurses, team based care, weird imaging Dr. Baig has seen, Medicare/Medicaid, are we heroes?

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Goodbye 2020! You were a stink year! We are starting 2021 out right with some good old fashioned evidenced based medicine. We couldn't be happier to welcome our guests: Neha, Allie, and Rohan, 3 of the creators of COVIDUP2DATE. Daily infographics highlighting factual, evidence-based COVID-19 updates. COVIDUP2DATE is lead by Johns Hopkins Med Students.

Topics: Background on COVIDUP2DATE, being a medical student during COVID, misinformation and social media attacks, herd immunity/Sweden, problems with how we've handled the pandemic, do lockdowns work, at home testing, vaccine allergic reactions, working with nursing as a medical student, IG Q&A's 

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This episode features Dan and Abby's close friend and budding Neurologist Dr. Saritha. The three of them worked together during the first COVID surge in NYC. We explore Abby's feelings that some doctors avoid COVID room and increase exposure to nurses. Saritha talks about a time when PPE was withheld from her by nursing. 

A special thank you to Saritha for her willingness to discuss this sensitive topic. 

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Join Abby's talk with Dr. Gerald Diaz a Board Certified Internal Medicine Hospitalist & GrepMed Editor in Chief! 

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Dan and Abby discuss the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines with Dr. Ali Haider our favorite board certified Interventional / Structural cardiologist, Assistant Professor, Traveler, and chef

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