Critical Care Reviews... Down Under! • LITFL Hard not to get excited about this - Rob Mac Sweeney is bringing the ⁦Critical Care Reviews⁩ meeting to Melbourne, Dec 10th & 11th 2024. Don’t miss out… Register your EOI to attend! litfl.com/critical-care-…

Under capitalism you end up with… A food industry where the priority isn’t feeding people. A pharmaceutical industry where the priority isn’t keeping people healthy. A media where the priority isn’t informing people. & a fossil fuel industry being subsidised to kill everyone.

Hmmm. New Zealand Intensivist lifestyle: 0.8FTE + 0.2 non clinical role 1:13 on call from home. 3 registrars on night shift (+ occasional Fellow) 1.5 rostered days off/week Live centrally in largest city so can bike to work and walk to stadium and shops. Seems sustainable

Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of #ClimateChange 1. Stop burning #FossilFuels 2. Stop methane emissions 3. Stop deforestation 4. Restore degraded land 5. Change what we eat 6. Go #RenewableEnergy 7. Use energy more efficiently 8. #ActNow theguardian.com/environment/20…

People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵

This thread brightened my day 👇🏻

Still, I hear of doctors delaying having kids because of career concerns. (‘Don’t get pregnant on us’ heard this week) We need to normalise maternity leave and return to work. Bravo to A/Prof Kara Allen and team CRASH for publishing your work. Lessons for all in healthcare. 💪🏼

Congratulations to the National-led government for crashing the EV market. Via Chris Keall nzherald.co.nz/business/ev-sa…

Consider ecological overshoot.

The Ministry of Health told Casey Costello the smokefree reforms she wanted to repeal would save New Zealanders $46 billion over the next three decades. She says she didn't tell Cabinet this because it was based on out-of-date and incomplete information. newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/12/min…

Rotorua is one of NZ’s top tourist destinations and it’s not hard to see why. Nestled between glistening lakes & rugged forest, and surrounded by geothermal activity. Situated in the heart is Rotorua Hospital, with 158 beds & about 20 anaesthetists. Read: bit.ly/3UkVApQ

Earth Day messaging is still stuck at the "recycle harder" level, when what we need is the "sue & disrupt the fossil fuel industry out of existence and put the executives who've spread lies in prison, as billions of lives and life on Earth is at risk" level

Thread on the beauty of our planet to celebrate Earth Day 🧵 1. Meteor over Mount Fuji by H. Manabe

The timetable for WICM 24 is now finalised & available here: wellingtonicu.com/Data/WICM/WICM… The team are once again looking forward to welcoming all overseas candidates to Wellington in winter for our ICU Fellowship course. Thanks also to our stellar binational faculty.

The Government says New Zealand must choose between gas and coal. That's a false dichotomy. It only serves to lock us into another half-century of dependence on expensive, dangerous and climate-destroying fossil fuels. newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/10/gov…

Perhaps the NZ part of ANZICS CTG would have beena better place to study albumin effects if you want to avoid high baseline use confounding results #ccrdownunder

ALBICS AKI may hopefully put albumin use to bed though. Will Australian ICU community realise that just because it’s “free” doesn’t make it harmless #ccrdownunder

Discussion following SAHARA presentation surrounding pt quality of life measures vs outcome scores. I’m a fan of objective measurements despite concerns re pt centredness. This is because pts normalise their circumstances #ccrdownunder

Vacancies are now open for our 2025 Online Education Program! 💻 Are you a Trainee or Fellow who is passionate about medical education, and keen to be part of the College’s Online Education Program (OEP)? View all vacancies and apply by 31 December: loom.ly/NgmNoEc.