#MedTweets

Remember STOP & THINK before you tweet. Is your tweet appropriate? Maintain patient confidentiality ALWAYS #MedShift

This is a parody account but allow me one serious tweet. A story you may know but one I was shamefully unaware of until recently. #BlackLivesMatter

I am the Emergency Medicine Consultant for Cornwall this weekend @RCHTWeCare If you are considering coming to the SW this weekend, please don’t. Please visit when this is over.

Coronavirus. Anyone can get it. Anyone can spread it. Don’t put your family and friends in danger. #StayHomeThisWeekend #StayHomeSaveLives

To support healthcare professionals in the management of paediatric patients with #COVID19, we have produced new resources, including guidance and an amended EPALS algorithm. Find out more: bit.ly/2UWj9W0

The Home Office says NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics with UK work visas due to expire before 1 October will have them automatically extended for a year so they can "focus on fighting coronavirus"

In my 7 days on one of our (now 12!) non ICU #COVID19 units, I admitted 58 patients for COVID rule out, of whom 50 tested positive. Two died (DNR), 2 went to hospice, and 5 went to the ICU. That is… not my typical gen med service week. Following, some clinical observations.

Reflections on today. 1. The #Nightingale hospital has some of the most effective medical leaders I’ve ever encountered. 2. The pace of activity in the @nhs is immense 3. Staff on the front line are not just doing their jobs and are indeed heroes. 4. Staff who aren’t on the 1/2

This is the new NHS Nightingale hospital, opening next week in London to care for #coronavirus patients.

1/ I've just tested positive for COVID-19. I'm an ED registrar in London who has treated many patients with COVID. I'm learning that it can present in a variety of ways. I thought it would be useful to post about my symptoms so far, in the interests of better understanding.

Dear Emergency Medicine colleagues, When this mess is over, you can all order as many absurd CT scans as you want and I won’t even read the indications before clicking accept. Keep up the amazing work. You are heroes.

This is a thread of COVID-19 CXR (all SARS-CoV-2 PCR+) from my hospital (Spain). I hope it could help. Case 1. 68yo female. Cough and fever.

@drcpress You tell that Junior Doc that we said she can do anything she damn well pleases and point us to the direction of the jerk that she can’t. Would love to invite him to follow my bunch for a day.

I should have got this legend to write the original poster 😂

Last week I got my first experience as a @The_PCP mentor when a 3rd year student joined me for 2 shifts. A great opportunity to teach and build confidence in their knowledge/management of cases, whilst being challenged myself with their questions. An experience all should have!

Do you wear green and travel in yellow vehicles? Do you enjoy multi-disciplinary learning and high-fidelity teaching? Could you show starry-eyed medical students the world of prehospital care? If so @The_PCP needs you to mentor 2nd-5th year medical students! Get in contact! 🚑

Yeah thanks @Paddy_Lewis. In total agreement. It does little to benefit the profession. We’re supporting a focus on prehospital education rather than scene tweeting #MedTweets

Something you don’t want to see in a hyperkalaemic patient! Sine waves are considered a pre-terminal event and VF cardiac arrest is likely to follow imminently

Amiodarone is a Class 3 anti-anginal and anti-arrhythmic that prolongs Phase 3 of the cardiac action potential - the repolarisation phase. Has a long half life. Many potential side effects including thyroid dysfunction. TFTs require monitoring. #MedTweets

The P wave on an ECG represents atrial depolarisation. The QRS complex shows ventricular depolarisation and the T wave represents ventricular repolarisation. Atrial repolarisation occurs during the time of the QRS complex as the ventricles depolarise. #MedTweets

Digoxin is a cardiac glycoside used for rate control in AF (Atrial Fibrillation). It works by decreasing conduction through the AV node, slowing the ventricular rate. It also inhibits the Na+/K+/ATPase pump - increasing the force of cardiac muscle contractions #MedTweets