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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?

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

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

The Decision to Intubate

Clinical pearls and discussion about the difficult decision to intubate.

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