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Not sure what you mean by over-eager. Patients are only intubated and placed on mechanical ventilation when they will die otherwise. There is a step wise increase in ventilatory su…

VAP (ventilator associated pneumonia) is a known morbidity of mechanical ventilation. ICU protocols are much improved these days to combat it (oral hygiene, suctioning, early extub…

Doctors are done? Can the chat bot take out a colon or gall bladder or fix an aneurysm? Hilarity.

I am a vascular surgeon, and have many patients in the ICU constantaly. #6 confuses me - the original operating surgeon should be a constant through the patient’s stay. And while t…

Not getting the attention it deserves. CT scans with IV contrast are critical for trauma, cancer staging, emergency general surgery, orthopedics - everything. Having to ration it a…

I am a vascular surgery trainee. Myself and others rely every day on IV contrast to do our jobs. We were told today the hospital has a two week supply left - and the production sid…

All your question marks makes brain hurt. This study is not establishing a new treatment protocol by any means. It’s also a tiny number of people. This study raises the question ma…

The problem the paper is addressing is fibrin micro clots, which occurs in long Covid. This also occurs in acute Covid. The treatment is similar - anti coagulation. We (doctors) kn…

Very interesting study. I am an expert in the field of clotting mechanics (US NIH funded research / vascular surgery fellow). Not sure why they chose TEG to monitor coagulation sta…

As an engineer the PCL seemed like foreign territory as it was in the other side of campus. Thus it was a nice place to go and think, especially in the map room, it was a magic pla…

Fascinating. They mention in the paper that the Dark Ages power spectrum would require a 100,000 dipole antenna array, seems like we are far from that. Full disclosure brain fart -…

Agree for Mars - this tech will translate well into other areas of need in hostile environments - like agriculture, mining, large scale manufacturing etc.

I think it’s a great idea to build mud huts on another planet where labor is scarce, machine energy is under different constraints, and certain resources are “unlimited”. But this …

Yes true, but brick and other base material like it is very strong and support fixtures to attach ducting, pipes, cables - I’m not sure you can drill brackets into this mud and saf…

Yet another example of the over-hype of “3D Printing”. Yes it’s neat that they collected some local dirt, mixed it with some non-locally sourced water and binder, and poured it int…

I was a medical student with Cohn and Frazier in 2012 at Texas Heart - it was an awesome experience. Every day we would either do a heart transplant or peel a heart mate II out of …

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I wonder what these for profit companies do with the red cells and platelets? These are both heavily regulated with short shelf lives.

Anticoagulation normally, six months of pills or injections for the first vein clot (deep vein thrombosis or DVT) and then lifelong if you develop another one. If the clot travels …

No one likes to talk about the potential side effects of stem cell therapy. They express tissue factor, which increases after culture required for these treatments. Tissue factor i…

Concerned about the decrease in meat, and ultimately protein in the diet. His meals only serve meat three times a week? For a surgical patient trying to heal their wounds, a decrea…

Here is one paper from pub Med discussing NEC: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357630/

No, it is necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). NEC is associated with formula feeds and accounts for up to 20% of NICU costs annually. Here is a pubmed link discussing: https://www.ncb…