Veronica Stewart

📊 JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis: The 2024 guideline from the @American_Heart and @ACCinTouch recommends continuing statins and β-blockers for patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. ja.ma/48qHiuk

Canadians are dying preventable deaths in this country’s emergency departments nationalpost.com/news/canada/em… via @nationalpost

Physician variation in early sepsis treatment (substantial), causal inference methods on potential overtreatment with faster antibiotic practices (none), and understand how some physicians go faster (proactive, parallel processing care/team management) jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

EMCrit 417 - The Antibiotics Show - Community Edition with David Talan. Choices of ABX for Sepsis and Septic Shock [#FOAMed for now] emcrit.org/417

With over 75,000 sepsis cases in Canada each year and 18,000 deaths (24%), implementing a Sepsis National Action Plan is fundamental to reducing the burden of sepsis in Canada!

Sepsis and post-sepsis syndrome: a multisystem challenge requiring comprehensive care and management-a review CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidenc…

Kicking off the 2025 Mattox Meeting #TCCACS2025 To fix or let them flail: the who, what and when of rib fixation 🫁 ➡️ bit.ly/3GlKuw6 @DukeSurgery

This #PatientSafetyAwarenessWeek, we’re encouraging everyone – from patients and their families to medical providers and hospital leadership – to learn more about healthcare safety. Whether a patient falls while in the hospital, receives the wrong medications, or contracts a healthcare-associated infection that has the potential to progress to sepsis, there are measures that can help prevent these instances from occurring. Learn more at sepsisalliance.info/PatientSafety.

This #SepsisSurvivorWeek, we honour and recognize the resilience of survivors and caregivers. Hear from patient voices through our patient stories and sepsis podcast: sepsis.ubc.ca/patient-voices

📊 Sepsis is more common than first thought! According to a recent study by Garland et al., a new method (AlgorithmL) estimates 383 sepsis cases per 100,000 people annually in Calgary—much higher than older methods. This includes algorithm includes milder cases, giving a clearer picture of sepsis. 📖 Click the link below to read the study: journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/ful…

Print this and put it up in the wards 😍 Credits: unknown #MedTwitter

In a CHEST Commentary from the December issue, George E. Sayde, MD, MPH, writes about the evolving field of #ICU survivorship, including postintensive care syndrome. Read more: hubs.la/Q02_19qG0 #MedEd #MedTwitter

Among hospitalized patients, electronic sepsis screening compared with no screening resulted in lower in-hospital 90-day mortality. #CCRdownunder @CritCareReviews ja.ma/4iwWBoL

INTRA-ABDOMINAL INFECTIONS: what antibiotics 💊 do you reach for? Do you need fungal coverage? How long 🕐do you treat? Join @npetcka2022 @georgoff to get these answers & more on today's high-yield episode featuring special guests @SurgInfxSoc @explorersurgeon @heatherevansmd 🎧app.behindtheknife.org/podcast/2024-g…🎧

Super exciting to see Nick Daneman and Rob Fowler present BALANCE results @CCCForum. 7d of antibiotics NON-INFERIOR to 14d for hospitalized patients with bacteremia. Yet another example of less is more! Synchronous presentation and publication in NEJM. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Urgent Reversal of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Critical and Life-Threatening Bleeding: A Multidisciplinary Consensus CCR Journal Watch criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidenc… Get the latest critical care literature every weekend via the CCR Newsletter - subscribe at criticalcarereviews.com/newsletters/su…

“If somebody doesn't help me, I'm going to die," she recalls wailing, watching doctors and nurses pass her by. "Somebody said to me, 'I don't know what you expect me to do,'" she said. "'You're a healthy 21-year-old young female.'" This is exactly what happened to me at 24… 🧵

Most viewed from @JAMASurgery: Although it is known that female pts die more often than male patients after high-risk surgery, is this because female pts have more complications or because clinicians fail to rescue female pts from those complications? ja.ma/4hvDriO

Colorectal injuries are commonly seen by trauma surgeons. The management of these injuries has changed over the past century. This article will provide an evidence-based review of the current diagnosis and management of colorectal injuries. @AdamFieldsMD journals.lww.com/jtrauma/fullte…

Colorectal injuries are commonly seen by trauma surgeons. The management of these injuries has changed over the past century. This article will provide an evidence-based review of the current diagnosis and management of colorectal injuries. @AdamFieldsMD journals.lww.com/jtrauma/fullte…