Kat Watson

🎅🎄Santa, it’s time. Will my mission to authorize Santa in the Canadian airspace be successful? Watch to find out!

I will never understand the animosity over COVID booster shots and vaccines in general. Vaccines may have alleviated more human suffering than any other invention. So to all those denigrating science and medicine please get a life. And I mean that literally.

UPDATED @CalDomMed @AlbertaPLP #COVID19AB Infographic has been finalized! In addition to use of dexamethasone, guidance now provided on use of REGEN-COV2 mAb, remdesivir, tocilizumab, therapeutic anticoagulation, & awake self proning. Thanks to ALL those involved in the co-design

@DrKellyYYC I always smile when I get to use these folded gowns, I am so grateful for all the staff at RGH 💕

A Registered nurse provides care for two patients with COVID-19 during a night shift on the Intensive Care Unit. In this picture, both patients have been moved onto the stomach, which can help increase oxygen flow to the patient's lungs.

A middle-aged woman presents with progressive dyspnea. You start with her hands. What do you notice? Does it generate any hypotheses in your mind?

Evidence-based #IMPOCUS curriculum development: I wanted to cut basics out of our curriculum - guess what - don't!!! Jr learners' needs are the same as a few years ago!! Congrats Tanner Chahley on your @UCalgaryIMRP project. bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

@AndreMansoor *myocarditis to be precise lol, have seen this twice, not good for a patient with few drug options now :(

@AndreMansoor Clozapine cardiomyopathy with decompensated heart failure! Stop the drug, watch out for cholinergic rebound ;)

A young man with schizophrenia (recently started on clozapine) was admitted with fever, chest pain, elevated inflammatory markers, and was found to have an elevated JVP as well as the following finding on auscultation of the heart. What finding is present? Thoughts on diagnosis?

@Dimcl2 Yup, I had it, not a big deal, it goes away ;)

Real-world efficacy data of #PfizerBiotech #CovidVaccine in Israel ✅ 95.3% effective overall ✅ 91.5% against asymptomatic dz ✅ 97% against symptomatic dz ✅ 97.5% against severe dz ✅ 96·7% against death ✅ All ages ≥16 benefit ✅ Effective against #B117 (94.5% prevalence)

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@DavidJuurlink You read my mind as I filled out 12 EPAs today after 90 hours of MTU this last week, certainly an added challenge for us, especially these days!

So, any other attendings at Canadian teaching hospitals really, really loving all the EPAs?

Nix Kicks Sarcoma gofund.me/ce7253d7

@AB_MD_WarRoom @John1MD @SammyHudes I have some more graphs that @Jkenney might just want someone explain to him as he falls asleep at night while we keep slogging through this on the frontlines thelancet.com/journals/lance…

@SammyHudes hm

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney: "There's, I think, a false idea out there that... 'lockdowns' stop viral spread and that they can be effective in every instance. That's not the case, but I will say that we are actively considering additional targeted measures." #ableg #COVID19AB

@jvipondmd @jkenney urgently needs to open his eyes to this thelancet.com/journals/lance… when he spews false facts #factcheckjasonkenney

Anybody want to guess what I think of this?

Retweet if you work in a hospital and your COVID patients are definitely younger this spring

Carbapenem antibiotics reduce valproic acid (VPA) concentrations quickly and dramatically Why does this happen? /1

Has anyone else seen the letter that the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association wrote to @shandro and the @Alberta_UCP on February 3, 2021? THE PUBLIC should know this information and make TRULY informed decisions. Thank you @noelgibney for fighting for ALL Albertans lives.