This is PulmCCM, a newsletter about critical care and pulmonary medicine.

March 2022

Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “What time is this, to trade the handshake for the fist?” -Joni Mitchell Background As remarked by the authors of…
Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] The tremendous, Hospitalist and the Resuscitationist [H & R] conference returns this May 18-21st in Montreal…

February 2022

Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.” -Virginia Woolf Background Intravenous fluid…

January 2022

Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “… but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence, both solid and subtle – solid as the pyramids…
Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “When she smiles without her teeth in place she looks like a witch. But with them in her mouth she’s very pretty…
Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “I find real life challenging enough. If I get to the dry cleaners without having a huge fight, that’s challenging…
Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.” -Julia Child Background Early observational studies and the RECOVERY…

December 2021

Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “It was after this realization that I began trying to find the ‘point’ of California, to locate some message in its…

November 2021

Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “… Sartre tells us that man makes himself this lack of being in order that there might be being.” -Simone de…
Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] About a decade ago, a handful of terrific reviews and investigations about phenylephrine – an alpha1 agonist – were…

October 2021

Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] “In those years, truth was elusive – as was my own faith that I could recognize and contain it.” -Mary Oliver…