#Benzodiazepines

Nova Scotia Health

HealthNS

*DRUG ALERT*Public Health received a report from law enforcement that a recent sample from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia that was tested at the National Drug Analysis Service laboratory was positive

Dr. Maneesh Gupta, MD (Psychiatry)

DrMG_PsychMD

Got a call for a #Psychiatric #assessment of an 80 year old woman in #COVID ICU. Apparently, she was talking irrelevantly despite her blood parameters being WNL. Full #PPE Kit

Tim Matthews™

timmatmusic

Look, this post isn't about JP specifically; it's about benzodiazepines.As someone who has *almost* successfully withdrawn from a very serious and dangerous dependence upon them myself, I feel duty-bound to

Paschal Donohoe

Paschald

Very difficult days in North Inner City of Dublin. A community that I am privileged to represent. Letter here in today's @IrishTimes Many people working very hard to overcome the

The Provider

med_conscience

Welcome to my first twitter thread!Today our topic is something that plagues all of us in our life in many different ways.Goal: share valuable information about four types of anxiety

Tony Duffy 💙

Existential_Doc

Breathlessness: A palliative care thread “Breathe deeply, until sweet air extinguishes the burn of fear in your lungs and every breath is a beautiful refusal to become anything less than

H O P E⁷ ◡̈

iadorehope

What should you do, if you are having a panic/ anxiety attack.A useful thread~ 1. Use deep breathingFocus on taking deep breaths in and out through your mouth, feeling the

Bryce Laliberte

ne0agent1c

what's even darker about this is that there actually are prescription drugs that do just make you feel better (gabapentin, amitriptyline, mirtazapine) but psychiatrists don't consider "making you feel good"

Matt Dawson

SaintRPh

I wanted to tell y’all a little inside medicine stuff that drs, nurses, and pharmacists already know full well about but you the general public might not be aware of

Omar Mosleh

OmarMosleh

THREAD - I wanted to see if the opioid epidemic has escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The short answer is yes. Some of my findings were alarming - Ontario's chief

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

People who are dying of COVID19 will need first-rate palliative (hospice) care. This is going to be especially the case for people who are denied ventilators or who are taken

Justin Corcoran

J_Corky

Hey #medtwitter, let's talk about physostigmine.Suppose you have some patient come in with a reported history of diphenhydramine ingestion. They're agitated, picking at things, mumbling, trying to get out of

Eduardo R Argaiz

ArgaizR

Nurse: Patient has a blood pressure of 226/118 mmHg! Resident: Nifedipine 30 mg STAT!..... Me: About that last call, please hold Nifedipine until we assess the patientA of some cases

Farid Jalali MD

farid__jalali

COVID19 causes FLORID platelet activation, FAR beyond what ARDS typically causes. Platelet hyperreactivity in COVID19 is quantifiably higher than typical ARDS and exorbitantly higher than healthy individuals or admitted inpatients.

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