Darren here. It’s been a while — almost two months to be exact — since I last wrote on here. Per usual, I am re-invigorating my blog while being on the west coast. Currently, I am in Anaheim, California visiting the uncle. Yesterday was my long anticipated visit to The…

I’ve been wanting to write this scooter review for a while! I guess it’s only fit to write this on New Years Day 2022. A little background on me: I am in New York City and an avid scooter rider. I bought my first scooter in March 2019 — a…

Non-medical post. Ready? I recently resumed my deep dive into the housing market with a plan to purchase property (condo/co-op, townhouse, single family home, etc.) in the next 1–2 years. The thought behind that was “wouldn’t I rather pay my monthly mortgage rather than monthly rent? The mortgage is going…

Acute respiratory distress syndrome or ARDS is a condition that has been most frequently seen in the MICU. The classic presentation is respiratory failure with b/l lung white out requiring intubation from severe sepsis or drowning and most recently, COVID-19 Pneumonia. However, I have increasingly seen more ARDS patients in…

This is a tough topic and a valvular disease that may cause cardiogenic shock that is very difficult to manage. The last 10 patients I’ve had with severe to critical AS, led to high mortality and morbidity. …

This topic comes up so frequently in my ICU. I’m surprised I didn’t think to write about this earlier. Shout out to our clinical pharmacist (T.A.) for being such an effective steward in our antibiotic choices, lab tests, anticoagulation and more! I would say the majority of our patients end…

This is my second and last post while being in San Diego, CA. Will continue once I head back to my NYC apartment! The famous TTM 2 Trial was just published in the NEJM on June 17, 2021 and is a follow up to the TTM 1 Trial. I’m a…

It has been a while since my last post and surprisingly my first one while on the west coast. I landed in San Diego on June 26, 2021 and today is July 5, 2021 — it’s about time I wrote about something. This is also a very practical question in…

In the intensive care world we deal with shock of all kinds. In the cardiac world we usually deal with cardiogenic shock and add a bit of vasodilatory shock like sepsis and post cardiac surgery shock. …