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A great 18 minute summary of my experience from the Langone Critical Care Cardiology Symposium in 2024, NYC youtu.be/h_QFZjmdkNQ

As nurses, educators, and healthcare professionals, we understand the weight of service. But today, we pause to honor those whose service cost them everything. This Memorial Day, ResusMed remembers the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who gave their lives protecting our country. Their sacrifice allows us to live, work, teach, and care for others in freedom. Today, we remember them with gratitude, humility, and deep respect.

Here are the 10 things I wish I knew before taking the Trauma Nursing Core Course ((TNCC), especially if you are trying to pass the first time, avoid unnecessary stress, and not look like your brain left the room during skills testing. resusmed.com/10-things-i-wi…

The Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) is designed to help nurses build the knowledge, critical thinking, and trauma assessment skills needed to care for injured patients. TNCC focuses on a standardized approach to trauma nursing care, rapid identification of life-threatening injuries, and evidence-based interventions. ENA describes TNCC as an industry-leading course that gives nurses the knowledge and critical thinking skills to provide high-quality trauma care. resusmed.com/what-is-trauma…

🔍 No safe benzodiazepine threshold exists for delirium in critically ill children. Avoidance strategies should replace dose-minimization approaches in PICU sedation protocols. ➡️ Read the #openaccess research in CCE: ow.ly/Pi0m50Z0oOE #PedsICU #CritCareExplore @SCCM

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We made TNCC less annoying. Still live. Still professional. Still gets you certified. Just without the unnecessary classroom suffering, long drives, bad chairs, and “where do I park?” panic. ResusMed offers online TNCC classes that fit around your life, not the other way around. Because getting certified should not feel like a punishment. Register at: ResusMed.com TNCC made easy. Never boring.

Have you aged out? blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-of…

The Emergency Department AI will see you now. “Overall, our findings show that LLMs now demonstrate substantial performance in differential diagnosis, diagnostic clinical reasoning, and management reasoning, and exceed both prior model generations and even human clinicians across multiple domains. These same performance gains are seen in providing second opinions in real, unstructured medical cases in the emergency department, where clinicians must act quickly with limited and often missing information.” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

When a Trip to the Hair Salon Ends in the Emergency Room medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/cu…

Enhancing continuity of care: Codevelopment of an intensive care unit transitions in care bundle I love it sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Nitrous oxide (N2O) misuse has transitioned from a niche concern to a common cause of neurologic morbidity among young adults. While acute exposure is common, intermittent, chronic use results in functional vitamin B12 deficiency, leading to subacute combined degeneration (SCD) of the spinal cord. Emergency physicians often encounter these patients early in their disease course with nonspecific paresthesias and gait instability. Initial imaging is frequently normal, leading to a broad differential that includes multiple sclerosis (MS), spinal cord compression, or Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)." journals.lww.com/em-news/fullte…

This is so true!!! Each of these have order sets, treatment protocols, goals, quality measures… What are you doing for delirium?

Noting that a patient is "confused" just isn't enough. Don't assume any cognitive impairment is dementia - it may be delirium. A brief conversation with the family can provide critical information. #Delirium

Perfect start to the weekend!!!

Benzodiazepines and delirium in PICU: 2nd analysis of 1,006 children and 10,644 patient-days: "No safe benzodiazepine threshold was identified in critically ill children, with delirium risk increased even at minimal doses" @DrDaleNeedham @SapnaKmd journals.lww.com/ccejournal/ful…

"You can't properly assess for delirium when someone already has dementia." Wrong. New meta-analysis (Keane et al. 2026): 4AT shows 88% sensitivity, 79% specificity in dementia populations. 5 studies. 1,304 patients. International data. #delirium #dementia

🧠 Delirium is the only dedicated delirium journal. 👍100% open access. 👍Ultra-low fees (Euro 20 submission, Euro 280 publication). 👍All study types welcome & rapid 4-week peer review. #delirium #medtwitter

Look who stopped by when Laura went to bathroom!!! Duke vs. TCU starts in 14 minutes! (Unfortunantly AI)

Couple comes in for their annual review. $2.8 million. Well invested. Solid Pension. Completely on track. I ask the question I ask everyone. "How is your daughter doing?" Mom's face changed first. Their daughter is 39. Hasn't asked for anything. Never complained. But she's been in the same apartment for six years. Daycare alone is $1,800 a month. Down payment feels impossible. Dad said "we always figured she'd get it eventually." I pulled up a simple chart. Statistically they live to 88. She inherits at 56. Maybe 60. At 60 her own retirement is eight years away. The money that could change everything at 39 arrives when her finish line is already close. Neither of them had ever seen it framed that way. The annual gift exclusion is $19,000 per parent per child. They can move $38,000 a year to her. No gift tax. No estate implications. Over ten years that's $380,000 transferred while they're healthy enough to watch it matter. Dad looked at his wife. "Why are we waiting?" Most families leave everything at death because nobody showed them the math of giving it while they're alive.