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Frank Tift

@TNemsDoc

Emergency physician, EMS physician, and flight physician in Chattanooga, TN

 Chattanooga, TN
Joined July 2009
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Welcome @ECHOHeliOps and all attendees to our little corner of TN! Looking forward to a great conference! #echonooga
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Interesting review of using NTG in inferior and RV MI in the current Air Medical Journal. May be safer than we think. PubMed 28089058
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Great talk by Dr Fairbanks on safety in healthcare/EMS. Need to change culture from blaming people to studying why error happened #NAEMSP17
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Lisfranc fracture: Bruising on bottom of foot very suggestive. Dorsal and lateral dislocation = high risk of compartment syndrome.#FOAMed
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On my way to New Orleans! #NAEMSP17
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Rare shot in the aircraft in ED garb. Training at LF1 post ED shift.
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This patient was shocked for "V-Tach". Rate is too slow for V-Tach! This is the classic Sine Wave of Hyperkalemia. K+ was 9.2 ! #FOAMed
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Did a couple of in-service training days this week. I'm thankful to have some great crews to work with!
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Had patient with esophageal foreign body sensation two nights in a row. Glucagon and soda worked on one, not on the other. #Nof2
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Munish Goyal@GoyalEM15 Dec 2016
Liz D: Only reasons for knee immobilizer: 1.Patella/Hip dislocation 2.Femur/tib plateau/patella fx 3.Quad/patella tendon rupture @GtownEM
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Me teaching ultrasound at #AMTC16 #POCUS
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Jasumback: gen SBP goal for most neuro critical care is 160-180, but *treat pain first*. BP probably not as high as it seems #AMTC16
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A Terry@EMdocTerry13 Dec 2016
Hyde: reminder of common 1 pill to kill meds in peds - hypoglycemics, CV meds, opioids, methylsalicylates #AMTC16
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Best of Day 1: Shock pearls by @christian_renne. Great talk! #AMTC16
Going canoeing on the Potomac with the other interns. Let's hope no one gets struck by lightning. #doesanyoneknowCPR
4:42, not tired yet. #nightshiftsuccess
Off to work. I only managed to keep myself up until 2 last night. We'll see how this goes, haha
My co-interns keep commenting on my Southern accent. I'm used to people (other Southerners) saying I don't have one #weird
First pay check!! #notinschoolanymore
Afternoon nap in the Lay-z-boy after a busy weekend.
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