Welcome to #MedTweetorials
A #MedTwitter Project
A place to go to find collections of #MedEd #Tweetorials (aka MedTweetorials)
A place to go to find collections of #MedEd #Tweetorials (aka MedTweetorials)
This list includes authors includes previously featured medical educators from around the globe who have take to twitter and consistently created multiple #MedTweetorials
How does one create a Tweetorial?
Check out this 3 part series on identifying a topic, drafting/posting, and useful tools.
Search the archives for some great reviews and interesting teaching topics on COVID-19
According to an editorial in the BMJ: @Medtweetorials is a recommended follow for distance learning.
Medical Educators who envision a place to streamline the search-ability of #MedTweetorials so you can find them all in one place.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @Sthanu5
Type: #Case
Specialty: #InfectiousDisease #ID
Topics: #PurpuraFulminans #Purpura #Neisseria #NeisseriaMeningitidis
A 3-year-old boy 👉 with fever, vomiting, and these skin lesions👇
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @AvrahamCooperMD
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Neurology #Neuro
Topics: #KetogenicDiet #Epilepsy #RefractoryEpilepsy #Ketosis
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Why is a ketogenic diet a potentially effective treatment for refractory epilepsy?
There's something almost magical about the idea that a specific type of diet could reduce the risk of epileptic seizures.
Let's explore why that might be.
#medtwitter #tweetorial
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rbarbosa91
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Surgery
Topics: #ChromicGut #CatGut #Chromic #SutureMaterial
🧵regarding the chromic suture: a 'classic' older suture material that still remains in use today.
We'll go over some properties, a little history, and some of what each of the sizes are (and were) used for.
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rbarbosa91
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Surgery
Topics: #PDS #Poldioxanone #SutureMaterial
🧵of 🧵's.
We've done chromic...now for one of the most versatile of all sutures...polydioxanone or PDS.
As usual, we'll go over some properties, a little history, and some of what each of the sizes are used for.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rbarbosa91
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Surgery
Topics: #SilkSuture #Silk #SutureMaterial
🧵of 🧵...we've done chromic and PDS (links at the end).
Now we'll cover the Nickelback of suture material...silk.
I use the analogy because silk has been around a long time: it's irritating, no one admits to using it, but they do; and you think it'll never go away, but it does.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #pathophysiology #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Radiology #Neurology #Neuro
Topics: #Stroke #CTScan #HeadCt #AcuteStrokeImaging
1/Time is brain! So you don’t have time to struggle w/that "stroke alert" head CT
Here’s a #tweetorial to help you with the CT findings in acute stroke #medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMrad #medstudenttwitter #medstudent #neurorad #radres @medtweetorials #stroke #neurology #Neurosurgery
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @PrathitKulkarni
Type: #MedEd #Publication
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #IM
Topics: #DiagnosticReasoning #EndPointDiagnosis #ClinicalReasoning #DiagnosticClosure
💡💡 New Publication Alert‼️ 💡💡
Of interest to all those who love Diagnostic Reasoning!!!
(And chief residents and others who run Medicine Morning Reports or teach courses in clinical reasoning!!)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35942949/
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @Dr_Oubre
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #EmergencyMedicine
Topics: #Sepsis #SepticShock #CMS #SepsisDefinition #SepsisDiagnosis #SofaScore
270,000 Americans die of sepsis each year.
But we can't agree on how to diagnose it.
The problem is more complex than you think...
A thread 🧵
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @tony_breu
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Cardiology #Neurology
Topics: #SAH #SubarachnoidHemorrhage #Twaves #ECG #EKG #CerebralTwaves
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🤔Why does subarachnoid hemorrhage lead to deep/inverted "cerebral T-waves"?
This ECG finding is so dramatic. But as we will see, these patients often have normal hearts.
Why does an issue in the brain manifest on a test of the heart?
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @nihardesai7
Type:
Specialty: #Hematology
Topics:
Hey #MedTwitter, these are 100 of my #MedEd tweets compiled for some quick #hematology revision. I hope you find it useful 👍
@MedTweetorials @EHA_Hematology @NicoGagelmann @pankti4299 @AbbasiMuqtadir
⚡️ “Hematology Tweets & Threads !!” by @nihardesai7 https://twitter.com/i/events/1391373171140354052
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @seymss15
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #IM #Endocrinology
Topics: #CushingSyndrome #Cushing #Hypokalemia #MineralocorticoidReceptor
How does Cushing cause hypokalemia?
- One of the many questions that came up during today's @CPSolvers VMR weekly recap.😁
@rabihmgeha @MadellenaC @Rafameed @rav7ks @deboracloureiro 💙
For the answer, follow this thread 🙂
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @IM_Crit_
Type: #Case
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #IM #CriticalCare
Topics: #MustardOperation #POCUS #TranspositionOfTheGreatVessels
ICU stories: Walking to the ICU early am & before getting sign-out from the nocturnist covering the ICU, I'm greeted by the nurse of the pt in room 428
– Can u take a look at this pt? I keep going up on levo, now @ 0.15. Middle-age pt w hx of ESRD on HD/afib/CHF/cirrhosis etc etc
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rkchoi
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #NeuroSurg #NeuroSurgery
Topics: #SDH #SubduralHematoma
Middle aged person comes in with headache. CT (from https://www.cureus.com/articles/68994-nonepileptic-stereotypical-and-intermittent-symptoms-after-subdural-hematoma-evacuation and for illustrative purpose only) with acute #SDH. GCS 15 and non focal exam. Patient on Xarelto. A 🧵on SDH:
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @TheBhupiThakur @Lpa_Doc
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #Cardiology #FamilyMedicine
Topics: #Lipids #Lipidology #Lpa #LDL #ApoB #Lipoproteina
Here is the thread containg all master classes by @Lpa_Doc
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @JasonHanMD
Type: #MedEd
Specialty:
Topics: #PersonalStatements #Residency
When applying to residency, most people dread writing personal statements.
Having written and given feedback on many personal essays over the years, here are 5 tips that I think can make it a little easier. // 🧵
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @namorrismd
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Neuro #NeuroSurgery #ICU
Topics: #SAH #Vasoapasm #aSAH #Subarachnoidhemorrhage
1/ Do you take care of pts with aneurysmal SAH (aSAH)? How many of them experience vasospasm (VSP) / delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI)? A thread on pathophysiology and novel strategies
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @IM_Crit_
Type: #Case
Specialty: #Cardiology #EmergencyMedicine #ICU
Topics: #NSTEMI #MI #VfibArrest #VFib #Impella #ACS #AcuteCoronarySyndrome
ICU stories: Eldelry pt w CAD s/p multi-vessel PCI / DM2 / HTN presented to the ED w epigastric "burning". Symptoms much worse with laying down & while eating. No relief w iv famotidine; got relief with morphine. Troponin I elevated and peaked at 1,000 (nl <15). ECG:
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @AaronGoodman33
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #IM
Topics: #Hypercalcemia
Hypercalcemia: A Tweetorial for Internist
Calcium regulated to levels between 9-10.5 mg/dL
↑PTH = ↑calcium
↑Calcitonin = ↓calcium
PTH produced by the chief cells in parathyroid glands
Calcitonin produced by the parafollicular cells in thyroid
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @ArgaizR
Type: #Physiology #case
Specialty: #Nephrology #POCUS #IM
Topics: #VExUS #Sepsis #TR #TricuspidRegurgitation #AKI #Cirrhosis #PortoPulmonaryHypertension
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #Physiology #GraphicMed
Specialty: #ENT #Neurosurgery
Topics: #EarAnatomy #Incus #Stapes #Malleus #CTscan #MiddleEarAnatomy
1/ “Now listen carefully!” Does the word “tbone” make you think of a tough guy nickname before ear anatomy? Do you know the CT ice cream cone & then nada? Then you need this #tweetorial on tbone anatomy! #medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMrad #medstudent #neurorad #radres @medtweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rbarbosa91
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Surgery
Topics: #Scalpel #ScalpelBlades #SurgicalScalpels #DisposableScapels #SteelScalpels
Finishing the series on scalpel blades (we’ll get to other stuff, I promise).
In this 🧵 we’ll explore the difference between plastic disposable scalpels and ‘real’ steel surgical scalpels.
Or is there a difference?
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @tony_breu
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Hematology #Heme #IM #InternalMedicine
Topics: #IronDeficiency #Iron #Fatigue #Hemoglobin #Mitochondria
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🤔Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?
I have often equated iron with hemoglobin and oxygen-carrying capacity.
But there is so much more to it!
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @AvrahamCooperMD
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Allergy #Immunology #InfectiousDisease
Topics: #AlphaGal #MeatAllergy #TickBites #Ticks #LoneStarTick
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Ever wonder why tick bites can lead to a red meat allergy, including even anaphylaxis?
The answer requires us to examine sugars, tick saliva, and an anti-cancer drug.
#medtwitter #tweetorial
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rbarbosa91
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Surgery #Plastics
Topics: #Scalpel #Incisions #ScapelBlades
Today's 🧵continues our exploration of scalpel blades with an opinion about a simple and common surgical maneuver.
Very often, you have a small skin incision and you need to make it a little bit longer. Yet even that simple move often goes wrong.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @DrStevenTChen
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Dermatology #Derm
Topics: #Arsenic #ArsenicPoisoning #ArsenicToxicity
A patient comes in for these skin findings. He says he’s getting darker everywhere. He’s frustrated because he moved to the countryside a few years ago to “get away from the stress of the city,” & now keeps getting headaches!
Diagnosis?
#dermtwitter #medtwitter #meded #FOAMed
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #Physiology #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Neuro #Neurology #Neurosurgery #Radiology #Rads
Topics: #MRI #T1 #T2
1/Do radiologists sound like they are speaking a different language when they talk about MRI? T1 shortening what?T2 prolongation who?
Here’s a translation w/a #tweetorial introduction to MRI
#medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMrad #medstudent #neurorad #radres @medtweetorials #neurosurgery
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @inglisjosh
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #IM #InternalMedicine
Topics: #Hypertension
#BloodPressure #BP
You’re an intern called to review a patient with an isolated BP of 170/100.
They're admitted with community-acquired pneumonia.
Would you prescribe an antihypertensive? Open this thread and I’ll share my approach.
#HighValueCare #ChoosingWisely
#MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @sriramsunilk
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #IM #InternalMedicine #CardioTwitter #Cardiology
Topics: #HFrEF #HFimpEF #CHF #HeartFailure #HeartFailurewithImprovedEF
A patient with heart failure that you have been following for the last five years no longer has a low EF. What changed ? What medications do you add/stop ?
A #MedTwitter #Tweetorial on HFimpEF (HF with improved EF).
First let’s talk the nuances of calculating EF. 🧮
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @tony_breu
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #IM #InternalMedicine #Hematology #Oncology #HemeOnc
Topics: #MultipleMyeloma #MM #BoneMorphogenicProtein2 #Hepcidin #Anemia #AnemiaofChronicDisease #IL6
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🤔Why does multiple myeloma cause anemia and not pancytopenia?
If the issue is infiltration of the bone marrow with plasma cells, wouldn't all cell lines be low?
Let's have a look.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Neuro #Neurology #Neurosurgery
Topics: #CervicalRadiculopathy #Radiculopathy
1/Understanding cervical radiculopathy is a pain in the neck! But knowing the distributions can help your search
A 🧵to help you remember cervical radicular pain distributions #medstudenttwitter #medtwitter #radres #FOAMed #FOAMrad #neurorad #Meded #backpain #spine #Neurosurgery
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @SatyaPatelMD
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Hospitalist #HospitalMedicine #InternalMedicine
Topics: #TipsForAttendings #PatientCare #HospitalistAttending
1/15 Some reflections on care for hospitalized patients after 5 years (🙀) of being a hospitalist attending #MedTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Radiology #Neurology
Topics: #CT #HeadCT #BrainCT #NeuroRad
1/Radiologist not answering the phone?Just want a quick read on that stat head CT?
Here's a little help on how to do it yourself w/a #tweetorial on how to read a head CT!
#medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMrad #medstudenttwitter #medstudent #neurorad #radres @medtweetorials #neurosurgery
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @nickmmark
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Cardiology #CardioTwitter #Cards #EmergencyMedicine
Topics: #SuddenCardiacDeath #SCD
There are ~350,000 sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) each year in the US (almost 1000 per day).
Most SCD occurs in older people with known coronary disease, but, sadly a minority of sudden deaths occur in the young.
Roughly 1500 people under 25 die of SCD each year in the US.
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @OligoclonalBand
Type: #HistMed
Specialty: #Neurology #NeuroTwitter
Topics: #EEG #HansBerger #Electroencephalogram
One of my favorite #histmed stories is the discovery of EEG by Hans Berger in the 1920s. #NeuroTwitter
At age 19, Berger (1873-1940) fell off a horse. On the same day, his sister, miles away, sent a telegraph to ask if he was doing ok. 1/10
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@rbarbosa91
Type: #HistMed
Specialty: #Surgery
Topics: #PooleSuctionTip #PooleSuction
Short 🧵regarding the Poole suction tip: what it's for, why you may not fully understand how it works, and (of course) a little of its history...
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@inglisjosh
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #CriticalCare #PalliativeCare
Topics: #Breathlessness #SOB #Hypoxia
76M with end-stage COPD presents with breathlessness and severe hypoxia. There is no reversible cause on workup.
Would you use high flow nasal oxygen for symptomatic relief?
Open this thread and I’ll share my approach.
#MedEd @MedTweetorials
#MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@ASanchez_PS
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #AllergyandImmunology #Allergy #Immunology
Topics: #Tryptase #SerumTryptase #Anaphylaxis #Angioedema
💥 Approach to Elevated Tryptase 💥
A patient without a history suspicious for anaphylaxis or angioedema presents with an elevated serum tryptase.
How do we interpret this uncommonly sent lab test?
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@rkchoi
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Neuro #NeuroTwitter #Neurology #Neursurgery
Topics: #SpotSign #IntracranialHemorrhage #ICH
Oh no! My patient with #ich has a #spotsign! Some thoughts and more ❓in the form of a 🧵 #tweetorial for #neurotwitter
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@rbarbosa91
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Surgery
Topics: #NeedleDriver #TungstonCarbide #GoldHandles
Short 🧵regarding what it means when a needle driver has a gold handle.
The gold handles are not just cosmetic: the needle drivers actually *are* better.
To understand this, we have to know what is meant by the 'jaws' of the needle driver.
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @bobvarkey
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Neuro #Neurology
Topics: #PhysicalExam #ScapularWinging #TrapeziusPalsy
Tweetorial. 1/🧵. Scapular winging.
A young man with shoulder pain after a road traffic accident. His back looks like this
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @MedCrisis
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Cardiology #Cards #Cardiotwitter
Topics: #Takotsubo #TakotsuboCardiomyopathy #ECHO
Talking with @reepRN and @nsivcd about #Takotsubo cardiomyopathy made me go hunting for an old gif. Clearing out my hard drive so here is an old school gif firesale. Everything must go!
#CardioEd
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Radiology #Rads #OMFS #ENT
Topics: #MandibularFracture
1/Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched.”
In honor of all the great hooks and crosses—here is a #tweetorial about mandibular fxs! #FOAMed #medtwitter #Meded #neurorad #HNrad #FOAMrad #Medstudenttwitter @medtweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @Neera_Ch
Type: #GraphicMed #MedEd
Specialty: #Radiology #Rads
Topics: #CXR #CXRInterpretation #ChestXrayInterpretation
Was helping junior med students with CXR interpretation in their preparation for osces & decided to create a 🧵
Follow along for steps in interpreting CXRs 👇
#MedTwitter
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @JayKinariwala
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Radiology #Rads
Topics: #MRS #MRI #MRSpectroscopy
Ever wondered how MR Spectroscopy (MRS) is acquired & how to interpret it? Have you ever come across funky looking zigzag graph with MRI & scratched your head?
If interested in learning BASICS of MRS, follow this 🧵
MRS for non-radiologists
#EmoryNCCTweetorials @MedTweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @ASanchez_PS
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Oncology #HemeOnc
Topics: #Lymphoma #Leukemia #HodgkinsLymphoma #NonHodgkinsLymphoma
Framing lymphomas for clinical reasoning: a Herculean task given long list of diseases in our world of molecular biology.
Here's my first attempt at a summary:
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rob_buttner
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Cardiology #Cards #EmergencyMedicine #EM
Topics: #VT #SVTAberrancy #VentricularTachycardia #ECG #EKG
‘VT’ versus ‘SVT with aberrancy’.
The long list of VT "suggestive" ECG features is difficult to recall and apply in real time.
How can we simplify things?
Here is my ABCDE approach – five simple Qs to ask:
🧵👇
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @DrAdamBitterman
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Orthopedics #Ortho
Topics: #Achilles #AchillesTendon #AchillesTendonRupture
Let's take a ride on the #orthotwitter train and talk about the ACHILLES TENDON!
A 🧵*....
*This thread includes slides that I created with appropriate references when needed.
@AOFAS @AJSM_SportsMed @AAOS1 @NorthwellHealth @ZuckerSoM #medtwitter #MedEd
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @RGottliebSmith
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #InfectiousDisease #ID
Topics: #TickBorneDiseases #Ticks #Lyme #Babesiosis #Erlichiosis #Tularemia #RockyMountainSpottedFever #Anaplasmosis #RMSF
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The only good thing to come of finding this on my leg last week: I learned enough to write a #tweetorial about it
A 🧵/twitter PSA about what to do if a tick comes for you – & what neuro presentations you can see w/ tick-borne illnesses
#MedTwitter #NeuroTwitter #IDTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @DrStevenTChen
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Derm #Dermatology #InfectiousDisease
Topics: #MonkeyPox
A brief thread on the #dermatologic exam for #monkeypox!
Caveat: I myself have not seen a MPX patient, but am piecing information together for my #dermtwitter and #medtwitter colleagues!
#MedEd #FOAMEd #tweetorial
PC:https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/18/927043767/rare-monkeypox-outbreak-in-u-k-and-europe-what-is-it-and-should-we-worry
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @JimmySuhMD
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Neuro #NeuroSurgery
Topics: #TransCranialDoppler #TCD #SAH #SubarachnoidHemorrhage
1/ Everyone has heard about subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients getting CT/CTA, angiogram, and EEG, but what about transcranial dopplers (TCD)?
Here's an #EmoryNCCTweetorials about how TCDs saved the day!
#NeuroTwitter #ultrasound #MedTwitter #FOAMed @MedTweetorials