Geriatrician MD PhD, passionate about osteoporosis, rare/genetic bone diseases, sarcopenia, orthogeriatrics. Imelda & UZ Leuven. Belgian Bone Club. Now COVID-19
Dec 30, 2022 • 42 tweets • 29 min read
As the year ends, it's time once again to discuss some of the best clinical papers in the 🦴 #bone field in 2022!
No effect in the VITAL trial although confidence intervals do not exclude meaningful reduction in patients on osteoporosis meds or with fracture history
Proud 🤩 to present our preprint on the use of #CO2 monitors in hospital: background, pilot data and protocol for an RCT.
A #COVID19 🧵 @trishgreenhalgh@mjb302
While Belgium is about to become one of the first countries to mandate #CO2monitors in bars, no evidence supports their use, which is particularly problematic in clinical medicine #EBM. How are CO2 levels in hospitals? What does the literature say? @HuffmanLabDU@j_g_allen
Dec 20, 2020 • 24 tweets • 25 min read
With 2020 almost over, it's time again to look back at some of the BEST in the #bone field: 🔝20 papers (+extras).
Every doctor carries along her/his own little graveyard. Inevitably, we make mistakes. People die, or become disabled. You never forget those patients. 1/n
In my first year of training there was a 20yo woman with stage IV lymphoma (DLBCL). She was clinically fine but I overlooked her creatinin which showed severe CKD from diuretics. 1w later she came in with heart block from betablocker overdose and died. 2/n
