PGY1 @unm_emed. Outdoorswoman. EMT. 🗣Advocate for patients, #singlepayer, health justice. BLM. 😍#FOAMed, #POCUS, prehospital care. Views mine. She/her. 🏳️🌈
Albuquerque, NM
Joined July 2015
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Been having a lot of thoughts as a doctor in the making about #COVID19 and structural inequality. It's a bit raw, but that's kind of how everything feels right now.
Does anyone have good resources for verbal de-escalation training for patients, especially in emergency medicine settings?
Joanna Watterson, MD 🍎 retweeted
LOSER: Emergency Medicine programs.
It’s been discussed all week, but this year, there were more unfilled EM spots than there have been in the previous 15 years combined.
Only 82% of EM positions filled. That’s the lowest of all specialties except radiation oncology (81%).
ALT Number of unfilled EM positions from 2008 to 2023. From 2008 to 2021, the number ranged from 0 to 30; in 2022 it was 219; in 2023, it was 554.
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LGBTQIA+ People coming to Sydney for World Pride
We are making sure you can get access to healthcare whenever you need
Checkout @ACONhealth for your closest clinic and please share that the World Pride Health Hub is now open at Sacred Heart Clinic
Happy pharmacy week! Let’s all reminiscence on times when pharmacists were absolutely freakin essential to patient care. So one time I ordered FOUR HUNDRED MILIGRAMS of bumex…
I was an ICU intern and unfamiliar with bumex dosing and the attending was going a million miles a minute and said “order bumex it’s 40 times the dose” so I ordered 400 because I wanted 10 of lasix…
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100% neurologically intact survival after hypothermic arrest in this series of nine VA #ECMO patients at @UNMHSC.
Strong work by @erik_kraai @TrentWray and the rest of this awesome team.
Joanna Watterson, MD 🍎 retweeted
Airway month continues with @DarrenBraude on the physiologically difficult airway.
This #prehospital study found that 100% of pts with an SpO2 of 93% or lower WILL DESATURATE during the attempt.
#EmergencyMedicine #Airway #EMConf #FOAMed #FOAMems
Joanna Watterson, MD 🍎 retweeted
Wait did everyone know you can get 8 more at home covid tests sent to you for free?
special.usps.com/testkits
please rt, i had no idea
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You are the GLUE
You are what holds your department together
You are the institutional memory that can insist on the incremental learning from one case to the next
Just so it’s clear - this is on a practice test for @TheUSMLE step 3, not in real life…
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I’ve never seen restraints used in the U.K., which has shaped my Aus practice. When I know a patient is being brought into ED in restraints, their removal is my first priority. I meet the patient at the door and tell them that. #ICEM22 – at Melbourne, Victoria
#ICEM22
Restraints are incredibly traumatic & triggering to patients & staff.
Early recognition & treatment of agitation can prevent their need
Debrief the patient & staff after
Involve lived experience staff
Connect with your patient. Explanation, explanation, explanation!
Joanna Watterson, MD 🍎 retweeted
So it being Pride Month and having major traumas regularly and all......what's our status report on removing the ban on blood donation for men who have sex with men?
.....cuz I mean....Really?
Joanna Watterson, MD 🍎 retweeted
KEEP PRIDE OUT OF YOUR DAMN MOUTH
This #PrideMonth, we honor the history, persistence and importance of LGBTQ+ rights and encourage all ICE employees to learn and engage with these important equality efforts. #PrideMonth2022
