Here she is! Perioperative Physician Avital Y. O'Glasser, MD FACP SFHM DFPM (she/her). #ASM23SYD

Elsevier is losing editors

♻️ CVC-insertion kits containing reusable metal instruments & reusable textiles offer robust opportunity to reduce environmental impacts & financial costs vs use of kits containing solely single-use items. Life cycle assessment #FOAMcc on Intensive Care Medicine 🖇️ rdcu.be/dcliy

Just returned from #EA23 and found the copy of The Autumn Ghost by fantastic Hannah Wunsch in the mail. Now looking forward reading about the history of the polio pandemic and the birth of Intensive Care.

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Barack Obama Described by Eric Topol as a “brilliant new book” in his nature review. An important story of medical history and innovation. THE AUTUMN GHOST

ICYMI - the 4th edition of the Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme is out! PQIP 👇Watch Chief Investigator Ramani introduce the latest findings 👇 Read the report here 📖 ow.ly/MLyR50Pks3g

In the early 1930s my grandparents met as undergrads Cornell University... Sept I'll be part of the Dept of Anesthesia at Weill Cornell Weill Cornell Medicine Anesthesiology Weill Cornell Medicine as the Vice Chair of Research. Joining a fantastic Dept led by Hugh Hemmings. Excited to meet and work with everyone!

If you are an academic who constantly feels under stress due to work, here's a simple tip that may help you. Once Joseph Heller, the famous American novelist, best known for his 1961 satirical novel "Catch-22" was at a party in New York. Kurt Vonnegut, another famous novelist,

Balanced crystalloids versus saline for critically ill patients (BEST-Living): a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine thelancet.com/journals/lanre…

Almost half of all countries have had a woman head of state or government at some point in their history. That is the "little-known improvement" of December 4th, and we'll post another one every day in December. gapminder.org/10

The duration of crystalloids in the intravascular space is, well, disappointing. An argument for albumin is it lasts longer in the intravascular space. How long, though? 🎩 tip to the authors! eddyjoemd.com/foamed/

Today's sinister reminder: "Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.

The data is clean. 25,816 patients are in the database. Analysis starts now! Ib Jammer @drbencb ESAIC Hannah Wunsch Lui Forni Ramani

Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [.] and the distinction between true and false [.] no longer exists.”

🔓Cardiovascular complications after major surgery are associated with increases in morbidity and mortality. There is confusion over definitions of cardiac injury or complications, and variability in the assessment and management of patients. This international prospective

Interesting that 83% had elevated hsTnT preop - cutoff for predicting MACE/mortality was 34. Trop+frailty improved AUC. High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T and Frailty Predict... : Anesthesia & Analgesia journals.lww.com/anesthesia-ana…

the squeeze study documented high rate of vasoplegia after non-cardiac surgery (and high mortality in these patients) Gudrun Kunst suggests that #angiotensin II and #vasopressin might be the solution

#AAAConf SNAP3: Lots of potential confounders of course. So does frailty of itself increase the risk of developing post operative delirium. Indeed it does. Frailty matters in the older surgical patient. SNAPs News Centre for Perioperative Care