When someone asks you to agree to something that will not change your life at all but will, they are sure, change theirs, the logical, moral and ethical response is Yes, of course.

“We are redefining physician competencies and what skills a physician needs to take care of patients in the 21st century. They need to be anti-oppressive, anti-racist, culturally safe. It's a reorientation of the physician identity..." #MedEd #medtwitter #ICRE2023

The number of women violently killed in Australia this year so far is 56, 52 of them by men they knew. The conversation continues but the numbers don't change.

🎥Another live #NAP7 event for your diary! The incidence of potentially serious complications during non-obstetric anaesthetic practice. Join Dr Maryann Turner, Andrew Kane, Tim Cook and Jasmeet Soar on the 10th November at 0900 GMT! Royal College of Anaesthetists National Audit Projects youtube.com/watch?v=Ad6SYu…

'#GenderEquity will just take time...' Drs Bharti Arora and Vaite Graham calculate the current expected year of gender parity in the 9 surgical specialties of RACSurgeons. 2046 at the earliest (paeds) and 2209 at the latest (ortho). Must do better. 🤨 …ibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.surgeons.org/doi/10.1111/an…

🚨Join us tomorrow at 0900 GMT for the next LIVE Royal College of Anaesthetists National Audit Projects #NAP7 launch. Do potentially serious complications occur more or less frequently than we think? Paper online tonight! Dr Maryann Turner Andrew Kane Tim Cook Jasmeet Soar youtube.com/watch?v=Ad6SYu…

Pecky De Silva RACSurgeons .Pecky De Silva closes with this challenge- if data show women surgeons have better outcomes, especially for women patients- …what are the improvements going to be for #PatientSafety if we increase women surgeons from 18% to 50%? #ILookLikeASurgeon 😷🔪

More new findings from #NAP7 published today in 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 (open access). The incidence of potentially serious complications during non-obstetric anaesthetic practice Read in full: bit.ly/49yeb7l Dr Maryann Turner Andrew Kane Tim Cook Jasmeet Soar National Audit Projects

Some of the results in this paper are surprising. This allows us now to look at different areas -airway -paediatrics -anaphylaxis -neonates -obesity The full paper is #OpenAccess and free for everyone to read! Royal College of Anaesthetists National Audit Projects Andrew Kane Jasmeet Soar Dr Maryann Turner Tim Cook

🧵3k views of this morning's live-streamed author interview with Dr Maryann Turner, but what does the new Royal College of Anaesthetists National Audit Projects #NAP7 paper say? Of 416 hospital sites invited to participate, 352 (85%) completed the survey. Among 24,172 cases, 1922 discrete potentially serious

This new work emphasises the overlap in scope between surgeons and public health physicians – how can we all improve healthcare experience and outcomes for patients? Dr Maryann Turner Ieva Jakaityte Sivesh K Kamarajah @kouli_omar STARSurg EuroSurg Students x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Lots more to come from this group in the future! Watch this space! Dr Maryann Turner Ieva Jakaityte Sivesh K Kamarajah @kouli_omar STARSurg EuroSurg Students x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

This is well worth a watch - the STARSurg team are a seriously impressive group of early career researchers who are doing great things!

🎙NEW #TheAnaesthesiaPodcast available now! Join Dr Maryann Turner as she speaks with Ieva Jakaityte, Sivesh K Kamarajah and @kouli_omar about their new international prospective cohort study! Association of Anaesthetists STAR Group EuroSurg Students 🔗anaepodcasts.podbean.com/e/impact-of-po…

😬 Evidence of gender disparity in equivalent surgical emergencies. Torsion confirmed in 64.5% women and 51.0% men, but a *much* higher rate of necrosis in women due to delay to OT (65% ovaries vs 24% testes, p = 0.0076). #IWD2024 is SO much needed. #InvestInWomen 💪💪🏾💪🏻

Do you know an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander doctor interested in critical care medicine? The Royal Brisbane is offering a Critical Care PHO job for 2025. ED, ICU and anaes terms with mentorship and cultural support. ANZCA CICM ACEM smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-RBH55…

Perhaps some consideration could be given to why it is that women are routinely forced to flee their own homes and go into hiding, and why the systemic response is focused on facilitating that, rather than enabling them and their kids to remain. In their own homes.

Thank you to Stu Marshall for sharing his idea for vertical red lines in theatre -making emergency call bells easier to find Post implementation, activation of emerg call bell: ✅>10s: 32% ➡️14% ✅>20s: 19% ➡️5% bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-… British Journal of Anaesthesia Critical Care at UniMelb RUH Bath 🏥

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VL vs DL - the debate continues! Can you compare two different devices that do the same thing eg VL vs DL? Stu Marshall argues you can't compare different generations of devices without considering patient-centred metrics. 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an… x.com/Anaes_Journal/…