ID doc with Med-Peds background. Interested in health equity, antimicrobial stewardship, medical illustration, and MedEd.
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Hello, #MedTwitter friends! Follow me if you like artistic takes on medicine…now featuring more infectious disease-themed illustrations! 😊🎨🦠
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Don’t make any rash decisions when you’re describing skin lesions #MedEd #FOAMed #medpeds #dermatology #rashes
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Hope everyone had a happy Halloweekend! What if the docs on call had dressed up as superhero alter egos? Just a little experiment 👀👻🎃
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Staph aureus bacteremia? Don’t forget to consult your ID doc! Early ID consult is associated with decreased relapse rates and decreased mortality, among other benefits 🤗 #staphaureus #bacteremia #idtwitter #MedTwitter #visualmed
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The ABCs of CXRs
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#MedEd #medicaleducation #FOAMed #FOAMrad #chestxray #CXR #Radiology #medtwitter
Credit to @Radiopaedia for the original chest x-ray!
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Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)! Some of the most famous art pieces are designed using the golden spiral...and isn’t POCUS an art too? 🎨❤️
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#pocus #pointofcareultrasound #bedsideecho #echocardiogram #cardiology #ultrasound #goldenspiral #goldencircle #digitalart
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Avengers as pressors, part 1/7: Norepinephrine makes a great “Captain America” as the typical first line pressor 👊🏼🇺🇸
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#MedEd #pressors #criticalcare #norepinephrine #levophed #shock #medicine #medicaleducation #medtwitter #CaptainAmerica #Avengers
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HECK-YeS! A new(ish) mnemonic for bacteria with inducible AmpC beta-lactamases that can lead to antibiotic resistance 👀
#infectiousdisease #ampc #MedTwitter #FOAMed #antibioticstewardship #antiboticresistance #thor #ragnarok
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Wow, this is crazy! It’s amazing to see how much love my Avengers as pressors series has been getting 😁 The following is a thread with all 7 pressors for easy access!
Thanks for the idea @ETSshow!
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#MedEd #pressors #criticalcare #medicaleducation #avengers
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💡’s criteria
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#lightscriteria #pleuraleffusion #pulmonology #FOAMed #medicalillustration #digitalart
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Definitely not Banksy, this is by Iranian artist/cartoonist Bozorghmehr Hosseinpour (@Bozorgmehr_h), published in 2020 😊
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Avengers as pressors, parts 3 & 4/7: Low-dose Dopamine is “Bruce Banner” to alter-ego High-dose Dopmine’s “Hulk”...the effect changes based on the strength of the dose!
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Avengers as pressors part 2/7: Epinephrine as “Iron Man,” ready to swoop in during a crisis...and also a little bit of a show-off 👀
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If you have a patient with new-onset or rapid AFib, think about PIRATES!
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House Hunters: Pulmonary Function Test Edition 🌬🏡
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Avengers as pressors, part 4/7 (the real part 4 😅): Vasopressin as “Bucky Barnes,” aka the Winter Soldier, aka Cap’s iconic sidekick. Typically 2nd line in septic shock, used as an adjunct to norepinephrine.
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#MedEd #pressors #vasopressin #shock #BuckyBarnes #Avengers
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Cardiac output olympics 💪🏼❤️
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#medicaleducation #meded #FOAMed #medicalillustration #cardiology #cardiacoutput #physiology
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Avengers as pressors, part 6/7: Milrinone is Loki, the antihero who plays with people’s hearts. Helpful more often than not, but might also stab you in the back 🤷🏼♀️ Watch out for hypotension!
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#MedEd #pressors #criticalcare #milrinone #docscribbles #Loki #Avengers
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Fun fact, we give IV caffeine to premature infants to prevent apnea of prematurity. Maybe we could give some to the residents too? 👀☕️
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First tweet, hello world! Give me a follow if you like digital art and medicine 🤗 Pictured: Tetralogy of Fallot
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#tetralogyoffallot #meded #medicaleducation #digitalart #cchd
#cardiology #pediatrics #congenitalheartdefect #heart
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Back to basics: Coronary artery anatomy! ♥️
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#coronaryartery #coronaryarterydisease #anatomy #angiogram #cardiology #meded #FOAMed #medicalillustration #digitalart
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Avengers as pressors, part 5/7: Phenylephrine, or “Hawkeye,” hangs at the periphery as the go-to push-dose pressor. Watch out or one of those arrows will Neo-stick you 🏹
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#MedEd #phenylephrine #neosynephrine #neostick #docscribbles #medtwitter #Hawkeye #Avengers
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Young person with acute respiratory distress? Keep vaping-associated lung injury on the differential! About 1/3 of these patients end up needing intubation 😱 The CDC has reported 530 cases and 7 deaths so far.
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#vapingassociatedlunginjury #VALI #VAPI #VapingEpidemic
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Avengers as pressors, part 7/7: Dobutamine is Thor, what a heartthrob 😍👀 Frequently used in severe, medically refractory heart failure and cardiogenic shock.
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#MedEd #pressors #criticalcare #dobutamine #cardio #shock #medtwitter #Thor #Avengers #docscribbles
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Chloride ions just tryna have a good time 🤷🏼♀️
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#cftr #cysticfibrosis #cholera #physiology #medicine #FOAMed #medicalillustration
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Intro to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
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#ARDS #acuterespiratorydistresssyndrome #respiratoryfailure #covid_19 #sarscov2 #sepsis #medicalillustration #digitalart #FOAMed #FOAMcovid
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Is it the Harlequin sign or the Harley Quinn sign? 🤔 Normal in infants, not so normal in adults!
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Anticholinergic toxicity mnemonic:
- Blind as a bat 🦇
- Hot as Hades 🔥
- Dry as a bone 🦴
- Red as a beet 🔴
- Full as a flask 🧃
- Mad as a hatter 🎩
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The first measles case in San Diego was confirmed tonight 🗣 The CDC has confirmed 1,172 cases this year in the U.S. Don’t forget to keep measles on your differential in patients with fever and rash!
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#MedEd #measles #outbreak #immunization #infectiousdisease
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A head-to-toe of “where’s the infection”?
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#fever #infection #differentialdiagnosis #ddx #medicalillustration #digitalart #digitalillustration #docscribbles #meded #foamed
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Study author: We enrolled 7 patients
Journal editor: Mmhm
SA: And we gave them all different medications
JE: I see
SA: And we excluded anybody who went to the ICU
JE: Okay...
SA: It’s about COVID-
JE: YOU’RE PUBLISHED
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“Even with my back against the wall—I don't give up!” A little visual mnemonic for the H’s and T’s 💫
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Fun fact, “fainting rooms” and “fainting beds” used to be a thing. I guess now we call them “ERs” and “hospital beds.” 🤷🏼♀️
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Glucose physiology according to Mario. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes coming up next!
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And finally Dobutamine as Thor, the heartthrob. Great for cardiogenic shock and refractory heart failure.
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A little bit about bilirubin 👶
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#FOAMed #bilirubin #physiology #phototherapy #MedEd #bilibaby
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This is awesome! Visual teaching 🎉
So, did I show a patient this #CardioTwitter illustration by @DocScribbles while explaining what will happen during his outpatient cath lab procedure? Yes! Did he totally love it? Yes! Is this #SoMe in clinical practice? Yes! Thank you @Twitter! #MedTwitter @AGIKinterv @YoungDgk
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I drew this in 2018 after the Parkland shooting, ~30 miles away from where I was living at the time. In the last 48 hours we have seen two mass shootings and honestly #EnoughIsEnough
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#whitecoatsagainstgunviolence #GunViolencePrevention #publichealth #ThisIsOurLane
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Low-Dose Dopamine as Bruce Banner and High-Dose Dopamine as the Hulk. Different effects at different strengths!
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Dog bites can be pretty ruff, but having this differential in mind can make things easier 🐶
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Milrinone as Loki, who we love but also sometimes hate 😂 Watch out for hypotension as a side effect.
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It’s U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week! #AntibioticResistance is one of the most urgent global health threats. Bacteria have a variety of mechanisms to resist antibiotics (see attached), so we need to be judicious with our antibiotic usage.
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Medical history fun fact: The word “influenza” comes from the Italian (and Latin) word meaning “influence” because in 15th century Italy a flu epidemic was thought to be due to the influence of the stars.
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Has anyone noticed the Truffula trees
Clustered on COVID patients’ CTs?
(Or maybe that’s just what my team sees 🤷🏼♀️)
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Antibiotic Taste Test, courtesy of the one and only John Bradley, MD (#PedsID). This is a thread of pediatric residents’ impressions and ratings of the flavors from left to right.
#antibiotics #palatability #infectiousdisease #FOAMed #MedEd @ucsdpedschiefs
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Not all fever is COVID...get ready for HFM season!
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In July I was shocked when San Diego broke 600 daily COVID cases for the first time.
In November I was shocked when we broke 1,000 daily cases.
In early December I was shocked when we broke 2,000 daily cases.
Yesterday we had 3,252 new cases. Please #StayHome
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P.S I’ve seen this series making the rounds on Facebook! It’s awesome to see so many people having fun learning Medicine 😊 But if you do see this I would appreciate if you redirect them to my Twitter or Insta so they can find the original source! Thank you!! ❤️
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Officially board-certified in BOTH Internal Medicine and Pediatrics!!! 🎉🙌🏼 ok I’d like to take a break from exams for a little bit please 😅
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Me trying to steer my two interns, sub-I, three med students, fellow, and attending on morning rounds
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Add a little insulin and you’ll feel much beta (geddit)...Physiology of T1 and T2 diabetes!
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Winter is coming...and so is flu season, so get yo flu shots!
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It’s always a pleasure to illustrate for the @COREIMpodcast, especially when they cover such high-yield topics! Check out their new episode on hyperkalemia 😊
1/ 🚨New Episode Alert🚨
Bringing you the latest edition of #MindTheGap: Hyperkalemia in CKD
Available on any podcast app:
iTunes: bit.ly/coreimpodcast
Show Notes: bit.ly/3Hrkwn0
CME/MOC: bit.ly/CIMCME
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That’s all for now! Maybe someday in the future I’ll expand this series, would be nice to include some ladies as well 💃🏼💪🏼 Happy learning!
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Anyone else having this internal debate RE: holiday plans? Brain knows the safe option, but heart doesn’t like it 🦠😩
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Did you know the CDC has a framework to assess the severity of influenza pandemics? It’s called the PSAF. Here it is applied to COVID-19:
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I‘m not a graphic designer, but I think it turned out ok anyways 😊 #newsig #artinmedicine #graphicmedicine #visuallearning #docscribbles
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Check out this awesome new CORE IM episode about discharging patients with incidental findings! Always a pleasure creating graphics for this team 😊
1/ Discharges with #Incidental Findings:
Gray Matters Episode
What do you do at discharge to ensure things don’t get lost to follow up?
What we often see happening 👇:
Listen: link.chtbl.com/Discharge
Show Notes: bit.ly/3BAg4R0
Sponsor: go.amboss.com/CoreIM-E5
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