PGY-4 Chief Resident @uabmedpeds | Interested in PCCM, POCUS, #MedEd, Clinical Reasoning | Copt | Proud husband of Ashley Chin at @mghanesthesia | #ViscaElBarça
May 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Expert clinicians utilize targeted debiasing strategies almost instinctively
@rabihmgeha at #SGIM23 employing “What can’t I explain?” for a pt w “CHF exacerbation” hypoxic to 70% on RA, improved to 92% on 3L
Photo from my recent Cognitive M&M courtesy of @UABMedPeds@uabimres
He emphasized: the crux of the case probably lies in this one point.
That you went from “may need to intubate” to “looks great” with only 3Lnc?
Doesn’t add up…
Consider an alternative etiology for his hypoxemia — notably, w such profound response to minimal O2, hypercarbia
Sep 13, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Formulating and appraising your PR (problem representation) is critical to the diagnostic process, and intrinsically welcomes cognitive bias