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Manjaro Linux Bluetooth and Audio Info

Manjaro Linux Bluetooth and Audio Info

I spent the morning troubleshooting this and I wasn't finding much useful info through searches, so this is just a little info dump post to be helpful for others with similar problems. I briefly explain the Manjaro Linux audio stack, the relevant packages, and how to enable/troubleshoot your bluetooth

Management of Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis - Insulin is the Secret Sauce

Management of Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis - Insulin is the Secret Sauce

This post will review the presentation, workup, and treatment of euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis (eDKA). Particular attention is spent discussing refractory acidosis, treatment failure, and insulin dosing. TL;DR * eDKA is a medical emergency and the management is NOT straightforward * SGLT-2 inhibitor use and pregnancy are major risk factors for eDKA

Rapid Bronchoscopy for ETT Confirmation

Rapid Bronchoscopy for ETT Confirmation

Have you ever intubated a patient, initiated sedation, and then the patient started desatting? The ETCO2 is 35. You listen to lung sounds and they seem quieter on the left. The ETT is only at 23 cm and you swear that you barely went past the cords. You already ordered

Advanced Vascular Access Techniques for the Intensivist

Advanced Vascular Access Techniques for the Intensivist

The intensivist is a master of vascular access, but from time to time we still find ourselves with a challenging case. Sometimes the odds stack against our favor. Think of an elderly patient who is on dialysis, in shock, obese, and with just a small little femoral artery. When you're

CRRT - lost in the sauce

CRRT - lost in the sauce

The hardest part about learning CRRT is deciphering the alphabet soup. It's easy to get lost in the sauce. Once you learn concretely the vocabulary and what all the tubes and pumps do on the CRRT machine then the rest kind of just falls in to place. This article is

How to Use Phenobarbital for Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

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How to Use Phenobarbital for Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

TL;DR Phenobarbital is a good alternative or adjunct for treatment of alcohol‌‌ withdrawal syndrome. It has particular benefits for patients with severe‌‌ alcohol withdrawal. High risk patients are those with prior seizure,‌‌ delirium tremens, ICU‌‌ admission, benzodiazepine infusion, or failure to respond to typical‌‌ treatments. Tread careful when patients

How Much Should Medical Students Present on Rounds?

How Much Should Medical Students Present on Rounds?

I would say this fully depends on the medical students and how busy my team is at the time. If things are chilling, then I rarely interrupt. I let them talk talk talk and give feedback +/- some teaching at the end. On the other hand, if my team is

How to change alignment of LaTeX equations in Jupyter notebooks

Math can be inserted into Jupyter notebook markdown cells with LaTeX. The following works for Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code Center align with $$ math blocks $$ \Large\frac{N(t) - E(t)} {N(t)} $$ Left align with $ math blocks $ \Large\frac{N(t) - E(t)} {N(t)} $ Align on

Alternative to Massive Jupyter Notebooks

Alternative to Massive Jupyter Notebooks

I used to have the problem of massive Jupyter notebooks. They were slow and I couldn't find what I was looking for. I was adding markdown headers and jump links... In retrospect, I was doing too much in one notebook and was not pulling out big functions into scripts. Now

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The Decision to Intubate

Clinical pearls and discussion about the difficult decision to intubate.

Fixing SSL Certificate and HTTP to HTTPS Forwarding for Ghost

Fixing SSL Certificate and HTTP to HTTPS Forwarding for Ghost

Fix SSL Certificate and HTTPS forwarding for Bitnami Ghost on GCS.

Iron Deficiency: How to Master Diagnosis and Treatment for Your Complex Admitted Patients

Iron Deficiency: How to Master Diagnosis and Treatment for Your Complex Admitted Patients

Detailed discussion of lab cutoffs for iron deficiency in complex patients with a focus on oral and IV treatment options.

Smooth Trendline with Pandas DateTime Axis Using Matplotlib

Smooth Trendline with Pandas DateTime Axis Using Matplotlib

an implementation for creating a smooth line over a datetime dataset with pandas and matplotlib.

A First Post

I've been thinking about starting this blog for a long time now. Usually when I Google something and don't find a good answer. I'm a resident physician training in a combined emergency medicine and internal medicine program. I'll be doing a critical care fellowship. I'm going to work in medical