davycro

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by davycro 5mo ago
The emergency room should be good at diagnosing emergencies, but most ailments aren’t.
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by davycro 5mo ago
This wouldn't solve the problem of diagnostic standards. Let's say you are a pediatrician and want to predict which kids with bronchiolitis will develop respiratory failure and need the ICU versus the ones who can go home. How do
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by davycro 10mo ago
Same. My use case is ultrasound segmentation. These models struggle, understandably so, with medical imaging.
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by davycro 2y ago
What about a subreddit?
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by davycro 2y ago
This tracks with my own bias as an ER doc. I do feel that the risk of c-spine injuries from mountain biking is understated. As they said in the article, you are especially vulnerable to a hangmans fracture when thrown over the handlebars. I
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by davycro 2y ago
You can do CPR without a computer system, but changing systems in the middle of resuscitation where a delay of seconds can mean the difference between survival and death is absolutely not ideal. CPR in the hospital is a coordinated team res
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by davycro 2y ago
I sent them your contact info, pretty sure they will be asleep for the next few hours
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by davycro 2y ago
The system crashed while my coworker was running a code (aka doing CPR) in the ER last night. Healthcare IT is so bad at baseline that we are somewhat prepared for an outage while resuscitating a critical patient.
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by davycro 3y ago
I would use this at work in the hospital, especially ultrasound guided procedures.
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by davycro 3y ago
CPR shouldn’t work on someone dead from a traumatic injury. For example chest compressions will only hurt someone dead from having their chest crushed against a steering wheel in a car accident. What happened to you is a true miracle and fa
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by davycro 3y ago
I’ve always wanted to have an MRI. I want to know how it feels to have all of my protons reoriented by a giant magnet. Would I be the same person after?
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by davycro 3y ago
I use windows when I work in the emergency department. These ads drive me bonkers when I’m trying to use the software to take care of patients.
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by davycro 4y ago
I presume this is intended for wounds in areas with poor circulation, like a diabetic foot or a walled off abscess. The bloodstream is damn good at delivering antibiotics and immune cells to infected areas.
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by davycro 5y ago
Received mine this week for a service address on the Navajo Nation. I imagine the wait is shorter for less populated rural areas, which should correlate with need. My old isp charged $60 a month for 1.5 Mb/s down and 750kb/s up. T
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by davycro 5y ago
No seriously. The estimated prevalence of venous thrombosis in the United States is 1:1000. The reported numbers of VTE after the vaccine would be normal in the general population. I am an emergency physician and I diagnose and manage PE an
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by davycro 5y ago
Those numbers appear lower than the baseline prevalence of venous thrombosis in the general population [1]. Maybe the vaccine is protective? https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/data.html
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by davycro 6y ago
It would be better if the author had vetted this with an epidemiologist or infectious disease specialist. I am an MD and I feel that this topic is outside my expertise and that I’m not qualified to comment on it. That said the author makes
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by davycro 6y ago
Neat suggestion. I too am seeing shades of brown for most queries. Maybe this would help.
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by davycro 6y ago
The test in the article screens for colon cancer, which is one of many reasons to have a colonoscopy. It sounds like the GI doctors you consulted performed colonoscopies to assess the cause of your digestive symptoms by looking at your GI t
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by davycro 6y ago
Implantable defibrillators are designed to be stopped by a magnet. This is a critical safety mechanism to stop a defibrillator that continues to fire inappropriate shocks. Any emergency department will have a special magnet just for this pu
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by davycro 6y ago
Amazing! Thank you for digging! This is the most common question that I am asked at work.
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by davycro 6y ago
Do you have a citation for this claim? I heard or read similar but then couldn’t find the source.
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by davycro 6y ago
I’ve worked in four emergency departments in three states this year. All of them have been overwhelmed by patients with covid, and not patients with overdoses, suicides, or domestic violence. Granted the incidence of those non-covid patholo
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by davycro 6y ago
The case fatality rate is around 1.8% in the USA [1]. Current population is 330 million. So if the entire population becomes infected that’s 5.9 million dead. The case fatality rate would likely increase as we overwhelm healthcare resources
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by davycro 6y ago
Make sure you are getting your vitamins. Would be embarrassing if you developed scurvy.
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by davycro 6y ago
I commute on a specialized turbo vado sl, a similar lightweight e-bike. An electric bicycle this light will handle more like a conventional bicycle, and it’s easier to lift up steps or load onto bike racks. This bicycle looks less cartoonis
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by davycro 6y ago
My specialized has a walk mode. Not illegal in the states
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by davycro 6y ago
Long shot but do you think this would be sufficient to r/o tumor in someone with a first time seizure? What about assessing for hydrocephalus in peds with a shunt?
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by davycro 6y ago
Heck yes, will do! For intracranial pressure did you look at ocular ultrasound? How did that work out? Did you have ICPs from actual bolted patients for the gold standard / ground truth? That would be incredibly useful especially in pa
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by davycro 6y ago
I could assemble a small dataset of less than a hundred ultrasounds to test the algorithm. A big dataset that could train an AI would require quite the effort. Great questions, and you highlight the need for shared ultrasound data.

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