WesElyMD
Husband & Dad. ICU Doc. Vanderbilt. @CIBScenter studies Covid & Long Covid, ICU Survivorship, PICS, Dementia, Delirium. Tweets my own. Still learning.
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1/🧵 Post-Infectious Syndromes …a Doctor’s admission 📌 I didn’t think #MECFS was real till #LongCOVID opened my eyes 📌 It’s “mysterious” & we weren’t taught it in med school 📌 Ye...
1/🧵Long COVID Brain Problems are a global disaster 📌Hiding in plain sight 📌Too often ignored by doctors 📌Read our new Lancet-RM article 📌On the intersection of #LongCOVID & #PIC...
1/🧵Your brain “on COVID”🧠 Let’s integrate >20 studies on #LongCOVID neuropathology My 24 y/o patient explained: “I don’t have a future because I can’t think anymore.” Let’s...
1/🧵Our speed in understanding Long COVID is accelerating‼️ Here I cover a smorgasbord of recent COVID data on… 📍Brain Aging 📍Genetics 📍Epidemiology 📍PEM 📍Self-Protection Knowl...
1/🧵 COVID Screws up sex & making babies Face it, this virus invades our lives – even making babies. The ACE2 receptor is in testicles, ovary, uterus, vagina & placenta Pregnancy...
1/🧵 Long COVID Brain Science: 🧠 For ~100M suffering 🌎, let’s use data to combat myths & #Misinformation COVID is biologically dangerous long after virus is gone #LongCOVID affec...
1/🧵 Let’s learn about Ace inh-induced angioedema His lips & tongue swelled up hours after taking a blood pressure med he’d been on 10 years - lisinopril. 📍What’s the treatment?...
1/🧵Wake-Up to how #SLEEP flushes waste from your brain 🧠 @JAMA_current I may get more done when I 💤 less, but I lose the long-game! #Evolution dictated that we gain an advantage...
1/ Do data support pt trial off sedation for “SAT” when pt is comfortable on current dose? Yes Shared w permission: “Dr. Ely, yesterday our ICU #nurses went over #A2Fbundle in Ep...
1/ There are clinically relevant differences between #COVID19 #Sepsis & typical bacterial sepsis, but they are Quantitative rather than Qualitative. That is, all clinicians have se...