Philippe Rola
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Philippe Rola
@ThinkingCC
#zentensivist, EMCrit Teammate, Proud daddy and husband. BJJ🟪. ICU Santa Cabrini Hospital.
Montreal, Canada
thinkingcriticalcare.com
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Mar 27
    Last few days for early bird! Join us in Montreal next september! #HR26 Nothing quite like it...
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    FOUNDATIONS REIMAGINED – Physiology at the BEDSIDE! #HR26 September 16-19, 2026!
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Dec 29, 2022
    Replying to @LeeMcdell
    Covid vaccine doesn’t prevent infection. No one claimed it would. It diminishes severity and saved/saves countless lives. I work at the edge of the cliff. Saw no one die of vax injury. Not one. What I saw? Sooo many covid deaths.
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Jun 4, 2022
    Been teaching this for years. Never use a radial for marked hemodynamic instability. Fem/brach/ax.
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    Edward Bezant
    @EBezant
    Jun 3, 2022
    Replying to @JohsEnevoldsen @Jopo_dr and @load_dependent
    Low one is the radial arterial line and high one is the femoral. Patient was on huge doses of pressors which we rapidly titrated down!
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Apr 11, 2022
    Best hemodynamic monitoring for inter-hospital transport? This is it for me. @ResusTEEproject, @FTeranMD @khaycock2 @msiuba @Thind888 @load_dependent @iceman_ex
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Oct 11, 2025
    Essentially Magder’s curve of the RV here (blue line), but flip the axes
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    Ashley Miller
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    Oct 10, 2025
    Replying to @icmteaching
    10/ Curve shifts ≠ flow changes The cardiac curve can shift up or down with changes in contractility, HR, or impedance — but that doesn’t mean the heart sets flow. Cardiac output depends on where the circulation meets the curve — the operating point — usually on the vertical
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Sep 19, 2024
    Repeat after me: pressure is not flow.
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Dec 27, 2018
    Anyone ever seen the pneumo part of a hydropneumothorax happening live? track the bubbles! Clip courtesy of Dr. Ian Ajmo of Santa Cabrini Hospital fame! #POCUS
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Oct 9, 2020
    Mayo Clinic Critical Care Grand Rounds: Venous Congestion & VExUS. #FOAMed, #FOAMcc
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    Mayo Clinic Critical Care Grand Rounds: Venous Congestion & VExUS. #FOAMed, #FOAMcc
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  • It really is mostly the western world, because this has provided a political spark with which to gain power. Tapping into the too-common selfishness in the current western culture has a huge political and financial payoff in the short term.
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    Philippe Rola
    @ThinkingCC
    Feb 12, 2023
    Wow this is some carefully crafted, strategic garbage. How do these ppl sleep at night? ⁦@farid__jalali⁩ ⁦@Andy_Ekins⁩ ⁦@lisa_iannattone⁩ ⁦@RougeMatisse⁩ ⁦@GenDallaire⁩
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    Could lockdown have left children with life-long immunity problems?
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