Brian D. Adkins

Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding After Refusal: A Sentinel Event in a Misinformation Era | Pediatrics | American Academy of Pediatrics share.google/tcZSuJVcCxpL...

Eliminating the Hepatitis B Vaccine Birth Dose - What is the true impact on pediatric transfusion safety? Check out our new JAMA Pediatrics Viewpoint jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Does anyone have pathology CME they like doing?

How are you diagnosing and treating mixed AIHA? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

What's your fav way to diagnose iron deficiency anemia with just the CBC?

Normalize👏wearing👏cowboy👏hats👏in👏patient👏photos👏

Y'all - I'm sorry - I've been busy

Me doing an excel

How do I buy a used bike, what should I get???

Is there anything better than listening to dads talk about the Godfather?

Happy Match day y'all 🥳

There is a market for barber shops that are only open on Sundays.

Great comp for a great cause - check it out!

What's you favorite food/enzyme combination for the blood bank? Papain/Papaya Ficin/Figs Bromelin/Pineapple

Hospital sushi - yes or no?

Happy Black History Month! True story - I grew up in Huntington, WV, the same place where Carter G. Woodson - the father of Black History Month - spent some of his formative years. CGW was an academic and historian who sought to tell the stories of all Americans.

In my house MAHA still stands for microangiopathic hemolytic anemia

I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.

Happy certlink question day! #ABPath

Every once in a while when I am writing an email I will accidentally type "Thanos" instead of "Thanks" and I think about leaving it there.

RIP David Lynch - still won't watch a movie on my phone - thanks!

As good as I am at wordle, that's how bad I am at connections.

My greatest accomplishment in 2024 was getting the antenna attached to my TV just in time to watch the ball drop for 2025.

Can someone on bluesky explain polyagglutination to me?

Our correspondence with @natureportfolio.bsky.social advocating that scholarly journals support direct link-sharing to #Bluesky amidst the exodus of academic communities from X (formerly Twitter) @drgsbooth1.bsky.social @jwjacobs12.bsky.social @path-brian.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Playing Oregon Trail: -Banker has most money -The further east you start = longer trip -Rivers are dangerous Shallow Rivers (Less than 2 feet deep): Ford Moderate Depth (2-4 feet deep): Caulk Deep Rivers (Over 4 feet deep): Ferry -Don't waste money on food. Just buy bullets for hunting

Do you use a pitted RBC count? -RBCs w/ vacuoles give cells a pitted appearance -Pitted RBCs typically removed by splenic macropahges -Count used to assess splenic function -Performed w/ differential interference contrast microscope (Nomarski) -Interest in automating process tinyurl.com/5ezhcfu9

Happiest of holidinosaurs!

Me: I can't remember the last time I consciously ate a bowl of Chex cereal Also me: Yes, I will eat three boxes of Chex cereal if you bake it with butter, Worcestershire sauce, and add pretzel sticks and mixed nuts

Resharing an article on cognitive biases in transfusion for the 🦋 audience. Transfusion is a human-factors heavy medical specialty and we need deeper studies in this area @aliwat.bsky.social #tmsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Advocating for @altmetric.com to include #Bluesky in its tracking @drgsbooth1.bsky.social @sraza.bsky.social @path-brian.bsky.social

Third wave ska Wednesday! youtu.be/EFY-ualPz1U?...

Big bluesky fan tbh

What is May-Thurner syndrome? - left common iliac vein compression by right common iliac artery - causes DVT - More common in women - Patients often require thrombolysis, anticoagulation, and or vascular intervention

How do we screen for hemoglobin abnormality in the US? -All state newborn screens evaluate hemoglobin -pediatric-age immigrants often get newborn when they come to US -Thalassemia trait often identified in pregnant patients or patients with persistent microcytosis after correcting iron deficiency

Friday night in your 20s - maybe go out Friday night in your 30s - spend an hour looking for your son's mad libs book