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Husband & Dad. ICU Doctor @ Vanderbilt & VA. Our studies COVID19 & Long Covid, Delirium, Dementia, PTSD, ICU Recovery, & End-of-Life. Tweets my own.

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    Oct 12

    🎥 took her hands & feet👇 I cried when she sent me this yesterday: Her physical resilience & mental fortitude are my . She sent this 🎥 of her walking w new legs and said to tell YOU… “Blood clots of can be prevented w a !” (shown w perm)

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  2. 2 hours ago

    3/fin 🎥 Baricitinib vs Toci for ICU patients? Dr. Kalil says best survival data support plus Steroids as current standard of care globally. Listen in…👂 This reflects 1,000s of pts giving of themselves to advance care for others! Great science.

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    2/ IVERMECTIN? 🎥 see famous ICU doctor ask expert Dr. Andre Kalil (Univ Nebraska) about 👇 “NO MORE Ivermectin studies needed. It has no role!” 3 major trials: EPIC trial, BMC-ID IVERCORCOVID, & COVER trials all negative!

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  4. 2 hours ago

    1/🧵 The TOP 10 Treatments as per European Union‼️   ✅ Early use: 3 Monoclonal Abs (eg ronapreve) 3 Antivirals (eg molnupiravir) ✅ In Hospitalized patients: 4 drugs (Ankinra, Baricitinib, Lenzimulab, Toci)   🚫 Ivermectin? NO. NOPE. NADA!  

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    Oct 25

    Please join us in congratulating our Vice Chief for Mentoring and Career Development and now... Professor of Medicine: Dr. Margaret Pisani! 🎊 🫁

    Dr. Margaret Pisani, Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary), Yale-PCCSM
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    9 hours ago

    Don’t give Covid-19 long-haulers the silent treatment in

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    5 hours ago

    The General Assembly special session for covid starts at 4pm on Wednesday (10/27). Join me for a rally beforehand and then walk into the capitol to show the state legislators we want them to listen to and our public health experts. /1

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    20 hours ago

    ‼️ Dr. Keith Scott is a respected voice in ICUs. He got COVID Pre-vaccine from his 1st pt. He healed & months later developed Guillain Barre (neuromuscular paralysis) & almost died. Now >1yr later he’s unable be a doctor due to . Tragic 🎥 Get ‼️

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    All he wanted to do was save lives. This is so tragic…and now that we have the vaccine, mostly unnecessary in the future.

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  10. 20 hours ago

    ‼️ Dr. Keith Scott is a respected voice in ICUs. He got COVID Pre-vaccine from his 1st pt. He healed & months later developed Guillain Barre (neuromuscular paralysis) & almost died. Now >1yr later he’s unable be a doctor due to . Tragic 🎥 Get ‼️

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  11. 21 hours ago

    🎥 ICU Doc & expert Dr. Keith Scott got infected while saving pts lives. He got better but now has horrendous & is disabled >1 yr later…unable to practice. LISTEN to his story. Then read my 🧵 on of Silent Treatment of in 👇

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  12. 22 hours ago

    ICU patients often land on ventilators in long-term care hospitals that don’t have great incentive to shorten stay. Pre-COVID, Tennessee carried out a pay-for-performance experiment that worked to reduce LOS. Our data show a way to help…👇

    Chronic ventilator use in nursing homes declined as Tennessee's Medicaid program implemented quality reporting, on-site monitoring, and pay-for-performance incentives to promote ventilator liberation.
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  13. 22 hours ago

    TY, Dr. 👇for visiting us at to teach our health care professionals about true humanism in medicine. Your leadership is paving a better tomorrow for pts & families. You are our as a speaker tonight!

    what a treat to be with and his crew at their reading group. “your DNA tells everything about you but it can’t tell you if someone loves you.”
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  14. 23 hours ago

    Indeed - this is good “United Kingdom” company to be in. And I’m glad isn’t the most expensive 📚 🤣

    Great company! in
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    Oct 25

    Therapeutic exercise attenuates neutrophilic lung injury and skeletal muscle wasting: organs cross talk- immune system-brain-lungs via- MUSCLE. Inert muscle=inert brain=flailing lungs Sedation?? ⁦⁩ ⁦⁦⁩

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    Oct 25

    A case series of 3 teens with recent Covid who presented and were hospitalized with neuropsychiatric symptoms and found to have antibodies in their cerebrospinal fluid by and colleagues

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    Oct 25

    ➡️LITERATURE LIST⬅️ for 10th Annual Main Conf is now online at ! Check it out adult / teams Register to join us by Oct 30 & ensure

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    Oct 25
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    our recent survey 👇in Austria (during 2020 COVID-19 lockdown) found that 66% of the respondents had direct contact with their physician, 26% used telephone; 4% used email; and 3% used chat or video services

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  19. Oct 25

    13/fin Dr. Angelou taught me about Cultural - embracing a sense of equity, equality, respect, & love. The more I incorporate cultural empathy into my life, the better I can care for my pts both in & beyond the ICU. The more I will be able to say, “I see you.”

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  20. Oct 25

    12/ I didn’t realize how far I’d be leaving this goal behind as I channeled myself into . Nor how long it would take to get it back. I also didn’t realize how much silencing of pts I’d “commit” along the way & how much shame I’d carry seeking redemption.

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  21. Oct 25

    11/ As the turn of the century approached, the 🌍 of medicine seemed to me to reflect her optimism. Having made great strides forward from simple beginnings, nothing could hold us back… or so I thought…

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