Jose Meade
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josemeade.bsky.social
Jose Meade
@josemeade.bsky.social
IM PGY-3 Boston University - Interests include but not limited to PCCM, #POCUS, meded and autoimmunity #RheumCrit 🩺⚕️
Today, in collaboration with @BUMedicine Emergency Medicine, we shared some basic POCUS skills to our second-year medical students. Let’s keep integrating POCUS into medical school curricula!
October 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
3️⃣ Results
8,508 matched individuals (mean age 42, 50% women).
💊 Chronic opioid use in 20.9% overall.
⚠️ Early TNFi = higher risk (HR 1.17, 95% CI 1.06–1.28).

Opioid-naïve: HR 1.96 🚨

Opioid-experienced: NS
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🧵 New study alert!
💊 Does early TNF inhibitor (TNFi) therapy reduce chronic opioid use in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA)?
👉 We looked at real-world US data to find out.

📄 Arthritis Care & Research, 2025
🔗 acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@rheumcat.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We had so much fun sharing some Lung POCUS basics to our MS2s @bumedicine.bsky.social! Their names is Ultrasound Is for Everyone and I just love it.
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Thank you @rheumcat.bsky.social for many hours of outstanding mentoring and hard work! What an incredible journey this has been! @rheumresearch.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM