Update Regarding the Boost App by Muhammad Amir Ayub

I mentioned in a previous post that the Boost App doesn't support credit cards even though the option is there.

Today, I tried the app again, and now increasing your balance using credit cards is now supported.

So now, if want to buy that Dunkin Donuts iced coffee (so good that my urine smells like coffee), I get the best of 2 worlds: I get credit card points and get cashbacks (so far RM1/transaction is the very limited trend) for every transaction I make.

Anesthesia for Neonates with Abdominal Wall Defects by Muhammad Amir Ayub

Actually, I have yet to actually see a case of gastroschisis/exomphalos. In fact, I never bothered to actually remember anything about them after medical school. Unlike the usual apprenticeship concept of studying medicine, these notes are purely based on reading the theory without hands-on experience.

On another note, in this podcast from the JAMA network is an interesting quote: "The sickest patients are in radiology". And ironically, the patients in radiology are the hardest to resuscitate.

Aortic Stenosis and Non-Cardiac Surgery by Muhammad Amir Ayub

Had to revise back this topic: the pathophysiology, diagnosis, severity and perioperative management/aims. Since it hasn't been uploaded yet, it seemed like a good opportunity to do so. I'm really having trouble cramming before the exams, so I'm just focused on remembering that the grading of the severity based on the (functional) AVA can be based on the cutoffs of 1, 1.5 and 2.6 cm2, and based on the peak gradient (which is derived from catheterization) the cutoffs are 10, 40, 65 mmHg.

I also came across a pretty good video on PA catheter insertions from the New England Journal of Medicine, so I thought I'd also share it here. Which also made me realize that I barely remember what I've studied about pulmonary hypertension weeks earlier. How the hell am I supposed to move on to another topic when everything I study just enters my mouth and leaves with my piss?

My brain just doesn't have the stamina to cram... For every 1 minute of studying I'm doing probably at least twice that doing anything else. And exams are in just 2 weeks' time. Yikes.