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#Anesthesiologist-In-Chief @HopkinsKids. Professor & Vice Chair for #PedsICU & #PedsAnes @HopkinsMedicine. @PICU_Up Director. Researcher. Mom. 🎺
Feb 3, 2021 14 tweets 14 min read
Dr. Cook begins her #CCC50 Lifetime Achievement Award talk with reflection on her own 1st presentation ever as an #ICU fellow- at an @SCCM Congress! She was struck by the interprofessional group of attendees.(Thread)

#NationalWomenPhysiciansDay #WomenInMedicine #clinicalresearch Her first lesson learned to impart to us.

BE BRAVE.

An early senior researcher said to her early in career:
"I just don't think research is in your future"

Imagine what #CriticalCare world would have lost if she had listened.

#CCC50 #pulmcc #PedsICU
Sep 30, 2020 10 tweets 10 min read
Today is @Pat_Kochanek's last official day as Editor-in-Chief of @PedCritCareMed.

It is a bittersweet day. So I'd like to say a few words about my dear friend, colleague and mentor.

I may be the loud #PedsICU lobbyist, but he is the quiet crusader and sponsor. (Thread) For over 1 year, @DrSeanBarnes & I would travel to conferences where #PedsICU colleagues would be present and beg organizers to let us share how #PedsICU #SoMe could benefit them. Most of time people said yes, & we were a novelty act, of sorts. It wasn't always a good feeling.
Sep 10, 2020 5 tweets 9 min read
Next up @PALISInet is @M_Duffett discussing a hot topic!

Impt. website: picutrials.net

2 key @PedCritCareMed papers

Social Network Analysis: journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/Fu…

#Gender & Authorship: journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/Ab…

#clinicaltrials #PedsICU #WomenInMedicine ImageImageImageImage How do you evaluate an authorship network and patterns of collaboration via @M_Duffett @PALISInet #PedsICU #clinicaltrials ImageImage
Aug 29, 2020 15 tweets 19 min read
Starting now! The @SCCMMW #ICURehab Breakout session with @DeliriumKhan @MeganKupfersch1 and me!

#PedsICU #pulmcc #illnessdoesntmeanstillness @AmerDelirium #delirium (thread) ImageImageImage Co-occurrence of PICS among survivors of critical illness via @DeliriumKhan @CritCareMed journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abs… Image
Aug 29, 2020 14 tweets 18 min read
Happy birthday @SCCMPresident! Look forward to hearing your very timely plenary address @SCCMMW

#SCCMSoMe #SCCMMWC20 #pulmcc #PedsICU #COVID19 Nice #COVID19 timeline schematic from @SCCMPresident @sccmmw #SCCMSoMe
Jul 15, 2020 16 tweets 20 min read
In this thread, I'm live-tweeting @sgdambrauskas awesome talk for @AKUGlobal series on #COVID19 in #PedsICU

Critically important topic #Zentensivist #ICURehab #BacktoBasics #DoNoHarm Defining iatrogenic via @sgdambrauskas #PedsICU
Mar 26, 2020 11 tweets 8 min read
Hi 👋🏽- I have #COVID19.

Isolated at 🏠 away from my healthy & unexposed family.

Seeking ways to help as a research subject (take my serum!) & hope to be back on front lines soon w/my #ICU & #anesthesia colleagues as an🤞🏽immune #COVIDー19 fighter.

Oh & anosmia= 100% REAL. 1/ My #covid19 symptom timeline were:
Day 1: myalgia
Day 2: chills, coughing, malaise
Day 3: coughing continues, exhausted, intermittent nausea, myalgias
Day 4:myalgia, cough, nausea, decreased taste, fatigue
Day 5: myalgia, cough, malaise, ANOSMIA

Symptoms come & go in 🌊 2/
Feb 17, 2020 21 tweets 32 min read
The moment we have been waiting for!! @jerjohzimm #sepsis @PedCritCareMed @ESICM #ccc49 (thread)

#sepsis #PedsICU

bit.ly/3bJIr1k .@PierreTissieres is up first introducing the process & rationale #CCC49 #PedsICU #Sepsis
Aug 6, 2019 19 tweets 8 min read
Every summer my heart is heavy with memories of a time when I even came close to leaving #medicine-when career & motherhood collided and I didn’t ask for help.

I want to share that story in case it helps even 1 person.(Thread) #medtwitter #meded #womeninmedicine #TipsForNewDocs I share this now because July is full of #tipsfornewdocs but August comes & we all get swallowed up in the hustle & bustle of heavy clinical loads- when orientation ends and the real work begins.
May 17, 2019 13 tweets 12 min read
Citation counts come from OTHER RESEARCHERS. They are important, yes.

But, sharing #science on #SoMe=broad & instantaneous dissemination to those who focus their time AT THE BEDSIDE. Which may surprise some- but is MOST OF MEDICINE especially....#anesthesiology.(Thread) #AUA2019 A metric like the “Kardashian Index” *MAY* be relevant in genome biology where the proportion of basic/translational science is significantly higher and no immediate bedside application for a general practitioner is there. (and I’m making an assumption here) #medtwitter #aua2019