That's a wrap on National #NursingWeek at UHN!

#TeamUHN 's 5,600 nurses (across all UHN sites, including West Park Healthcare Centre) are at the very heart of our system. Thank you for always putting the needs of patients first!

Don't leave your airway management skills to chance! Join us in Las Vegas May 31 - June 2 for The Difficult Airway Course! We'll be running both our Emergency and Critical Care programs--choose the one right for you & advance your airway skills today! #airwaycme #difficultairway

📢 Our latest study by Dr. Angriman et al., 'Preexisting Diabetes Mellitus and All-Cause Mortality in Adult Patients With Sepsis: A Population-Based Cohort Study,' contains some surprising results, shedding light on the impact of preexisting diabetes on sepsis outcomes

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The age-old question: can patients with a listed penicillin allergy receive cefazolin? in this #intheliterature summary, we discover more evidence.
#anaphylaxis #surgery #anesthesiology #anesthesia

apsf.org/in-the-literat…

Join us now for our talk on ECMO with Eddy Fan

Looking forward to Speaking at the John Wade Patient Safety Symposium. #CASAM2024 Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

We return to our Canadian Critical Care Forum series with this episode and delve into the world of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) with Dr. Eddy Fan, a leading expert in critical care and ECMO specialist.

#ARDS guidelines 🧵3/4
🫁In #ICU practice, focusing on sustaining life until disease solved sustaining life until disease is resolved, guidelines can be useful, but should not replace reasoning aimed at addressing patient needs vs population-wide issues
🔓 rdcu.be/dHb8e

#ARDS guidelines, ESICM vs ATS? 🧵 2/4
🚇 Mind the gap! It underscores need for collaboration/dialogue between scientific societies to develop synergistic clinical (living) practice guidelines to ensure most comprehensive, cohesive & up-to-date guidance
🔓 rdcu.be/dHcav

#ICYMI - Be sure to check out the new guidelines from Difficult Airway Society (DAS) Association of Anaesthetists The British Society of Orthopaedic Anaesthetists Intensive Care Society 💙 🄽🄰🄲🄲🅂 prehospitalcare and RCEMLearning for Airway Management in Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Cervical Spine Injury.

This is brilliant and important.

Responding to a tweet I’ll offer this

VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPY PROBLEMS….and rebuttals

‘Unavailable’
-yes if you haven’t got it you can’t use it (resource constrained settings)
-but in a high income setting unavailability of VL is an OPERATIONAL CHOICE

‘Failure’
-In the recent…

📰New Article available #OpenAccess :

Ceftriaxone to prevent early ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with acute brain injury: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, assessor-masked superiority trial

Dahyot-Fizelier Claire

tinyurl.com/3tp3kcve

Dr. Eddy Fan Eddy Fan from TGH Canadian Critical Care Society will discuss ECMO for Respiratory Failure at Internal Medicine Grand Rounds this Wednesday at 4pm.

Register Now: tiny.ucsf.edu/xCyi1L

ELSO SCCM

⏱️ #ARDS : critical role of timing & order in standardized management, so that interventions are time-sensitive/sequential to ensure consistent, evidence-based treatments, maintaining open questions & opportunity for timely/finer individualization.
#FOAMcc
🔓rdcu.be/dGXCI

Dudley Buxton (1855-1931) introduced a new idea into anesthesia practice that eventually led to the creation of a new specialty: Anesthesiology. His idea was that the anesthetic method should not be routine but should be designed to fit the unique specifics of one case
(Duncan).

Hepatorenal syndrome in the #ICU
🫘 diagnostic criteria for #AKI & hepatorenal syndrome
⚙️ specifc management of HRS–AKI
🧪 role of biomarkers in AKI phenotyping
Free to read #FOAMcc on Intensive Care Medicine
🔓 rdcu.be/dGQHz

Thank you Dr.Weinberg for sharing with us how you discovered the lipid resuscitation after local anesthetic toxicity ! And the courageous first clinical use by meg rosenblatt Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) ASA® Anesthesia&Analgesia

Here we go! Excited to open the 2024 'season' of The Difficult Airway Course with our Emergency and Anesthesia courses this weekend in Boston! #FOMO ? Not to worry - we'll be in Las Vegas May 31-June 2, you can still register to join us there! #difficultairway #airwaycme

Airway management in patients with c-spine injuries

🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥

Brand new multi-disciplinary guidelines!

Matt Wiles Helen Iliff Mike Donnellon 💙 @leechcaroline Steve Mathieu Matt Harris ✋ Kariem

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