Angle grinding jagged metal on my days off to avoid MRI transfers.

To note: I refer to patient's internal organs as 'blood and puddings'.
If I say 'puddings' are on the bed, I'm not acutely concerned about laundry.

'Day or night the Bluebottle is liable to be called. He may be busy or he may be tired; no matter; his vow holds good. Off he goes.'
- Ward Muir, 1917.

Detail in the ALT.
#HistNursing Museum of the Order of St John British Red Cross 🧡

Tha' can't move for Pre-Raphaelites down 'ere.

Be ward round ready in these 1930s hospital uniforms from the Hospitals and Institutions Handbook and Buyers Guide. They're made to measure, fast dyed and fully shrunk! #ArchiveFashion #Archive30

Me walking round ICU with the CD keys.

I have been awake for as long as this dough was cold-fermenting.
Made a nice Grandma pizza though.

'I know you're on break but...'
A Staff Nurse of QAIMNS(R) (/Civil Nursing Reserve) has a minute to smell the flowers, however appears to have been told her e-learning is out of date. Detail in the ALT. #HistNursing

Incredible Carte Postale of a camouflaged hut (Dressing Station?) of the Royal Army Medical Corps in woodland in Northern France c.1917. Wellies, French Interpreters, and divisional insignia! Detail in the ALT.
Jessica Meyer Taff Peter Doyle

A thorough, clear and eloquent discussion of what we went through. Read this article, please.
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

So wonderful to see the cover for this volume edited by the great Dr Hannah Ryley and Carrie Griffin 🇵🇸🍉 - I have a chapter in it which sits alongside a range of other fascinating contributions to the study of book crafts, instructional writing, objects, domesticity, charms & MORE 📚✨

I've never made ciabatta before.

Pleased that the first results paper of the NIHR Research funded MSK-ICU study has been published in 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢
Looking forward to presenting the wider programme of research as part of the Intensive Care Society 💙 rising star session
Huge thanks to all involved!
doi.org/10.1111/anae.1…

🔓The impact of musculoskeletal ill health on quality of life and function after critical care👇

Owen Gustafson Liz King Michael Schlussel Amy Arnold Carla Wade PhysioPhil Matt Rowland Prof. Helen Dawes Mark A Williams

🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Happy Easter to everyone else about to drag themselves to night duty.

Posted September 1909, me giving the new ICU admission a once-over.
#HistNursing #HistMed

Undertook extensive dressing of a patient's bilateral leg wounds today, finished with a late-Victorian Dresser's *classic* joint-to-joint spiral wool and crepe bandage.
(Quite) Good Friday on ICU.

Assessing lung recruitability: does it help with PEEP settings?
🫁 opening pressures
🫁 recruitment maintenance
🫁 interaction between opening pressure & PEEP
🫁 available methods to assess recruitment
🫁 clinical implications
#FOAMcc on Intensive Care Medicine
🔓 rdcu.be/dCJr0

A run of shifts that left you exhausted on all fronts, then when you finally get a few days off you can't sleep due to your esteemed position as a prolific insomniac.
Unsportsmanlike conduct.

Oh no Dr Eleanor Baker