PHARMWYZE📋 PK/PD: Inotropes - #MEDSHED
💉 Inotropes are pharmacologic agents that increase cardiac output and contractility in the setting of acute heart failure with hypoperfusion. #pharmacy #medicine #nursing #pharmwyze
💥 Atrial Fibrillation: Rate Control - #MEDSHED
Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Rate (AF with RVR) can rapidly detiorate into cardiocirculatory arrest. Rate control is the primary strategy for AF with RVR in patients who have been symptomatic for more than 48 hours or unknown. Agents to consider for rate control would be metoprolol, diltiazem, and digoxin (commonly used medications). #medicine #pharmacy #pharmwyze
🤢 Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamses (ESBL) - #MEDSHED
Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase organisms hydrolyze penicillins, cephalosporins, and aztreonam. Bacteria with ESBL are defined by resistance to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins. #antibiotics #infectiousdisease #pharmacy
💀 Adrenal Crisis - #MEDSHED
🌊 Adrenal crisis is a life-threatening medical emergency secondary to adrenal insufficiency (lack of gluco- or mineralcorticoid secretion from adrenal cortex)
🐱🚀🐱🚀 Antimicrobials: Pseudomonas Aeruginosa - #MEDSHED
😈 Pseudomonas species are multi-drug resistant, opportunistic bacteria that cause a wide spectrum of infections. These organisms can get pretty scary given their ability to rapidly produce resistance mechanisms and biofilms. They’re known to be hospital-acquired organisms and find their way to the immunocompromised.
🎆 Elevated Intracranial Pressure Management - #MEDSHED
🤖 Importance of Maintaining Intracranial Pressures
Severe traumatic brain injuries are associated with a significant incidence of mortality and morbidity.
🍹 Cerebral blood flow is maintained via autoregulation regulate neurologic hemostasis.
Loss of autoregulation secondary to CNS injury; primary injury (cannot be reversed).
👊 Goal of acutely managing elevated intracranial pressures is mitigate secondary brain injury
#medicine
🤖 Importance of Maintaining Intracranial Pressures
Severe traumatic brain injuries are associated with a significant incidence of mortality and morbidity.
🍹 Cerebral blood flow is maintained via autoregulation regulate neurologic hemostasis.
Loss of autoregulation secondary to CNS injury; primary injury (cannot be reversed).
👊 Goal of acutely managing elevated intracranial pressures is mitigate secondary brain injury
#medicine
🚨 Patient Case CC: Generalized Weakness - #MEDSHED
📋 Case
A patient presents with generalized weakness. AKI, Potassium 6.5 mEq/L. EKG: Peaked T waves. Which medication should be given first?
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👾 3rd-generation cephalosporins include cefdinir (PO), cefpodoxime (PO), ceftriaxone (IV), and ceftazadime (IV). Ceftazadime contains antipseudomonal properties, but lacks gram positive coverage. #medshed #medtwitter #twitterx
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🚨 MTP: Calcium Replacement - #MEDSHED
💉 Calcium has an essential role within the trauma lethal triad; hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy. CaCl 1gm IV should be given with each cooler (4 units) and/or to maintain an iCa ~ 1 mmol/L.
