Hot off the Press: October Edition of CCM. Read it now at tinyurl.com/4dpfb73c This month features fascinating Medicine articles on Steroids in COVID-ARDS by Nicolas de Prost, QOL of Sepsis Survivors, and a review article on Dead-Space Ventilation by Dilip Jayasimhan

The esteemed Michael Matthay and I wrote a review article on corticosteroids in ARDS and severe pneumonia. #ARDS #ICU bjaed.org/article/S2058-…

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Corticosteroids in adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome and severe pneumonia (by Dilip Jayasimhan) CCR Journal Watch criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidenc… Get the latest critical care literature every weekend via the CCR Newsletter - subscribe at criticalcarereviews.com/newsletters/su…

Unsure of the evidence for optimal timing and duration of corticosteroids in acute respiratory distress syndrome? Check out this month’s #BJAEd article. #ARDS #ITU #steroids #anaesthesia Dilip Jayasimhan bjaed.org/article/S2058-…

When the end tidal Co2 is 100 mmHg on your severe respiratory failure patient.

Decolonize #GlobalSurgery challenges us to rethink what is ‘global’ & ‘surgery’. It requires dismantling 1) the hierarchical Western surgical model, 2) the coloniality of #GlobalHealth in valuing external over local, universalisation over contextualisation tinyurl.com/34nkf6f7

Please have a look at this paper, and let us know what you think.

I am tauiwi, and I derive my rights from Te Tiriti. Uphold Te Tiriti. Honour Te Tiriti.

🤩People of huge impact in surgery- Maxine Ronald first Indigenous RACS Councillor, Emily Granger pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon, Sarah Rennie 🏳️‍🌈 RACS NZ Surgical Advisor, Dr I Waqainabete prev Fiji Health Minister, Sally Langley immediate past Pres, Rennie Qin Fulbright Scholar #RACS24

#RACS24 The #GlobalSurgery community is hypocritical if we fail to respond to the genocide in Gaza, which is the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time creating inequity in access to surgery.

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Well that was nothing but political spin intended to cover up the government’s health funding cuts

Christopher Luxon’s claims about 14 levels of management at Health NZ is nothing but spin, to justify #healthcuts. The govt knew they’d need more money to make sure we had enough nurses and so they were paid better, but chose not to fund them. 1/n

BREAKING: Israeli occupation forces have bombed a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza, killing 22 people. 13 of them are children, including a three-month-old baby, and six of them are women. In other words, nearly 90% of victims are children and women.

Remembering the great John Coltrane who was born this week in 1926. One of the most influential musicians in the history of jazz, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was at the forefront of the free jazz movement. His style encompassed the modal jazz first explored with

If your government is conducting or assisting a genocide, and doing it in the face of overwhelming popular opposition, then you do not live in a democracy. Your ruling class does whatever it wants. This is a core problem and people need to grapple with it.

Elsevier is one of the largest, most hated and most influential academic publishing companies in the world. How it started & how it's going A thread🧵

Very honoured to present the institutional learning curve of CRS/HIPEC at Waikato NZ as 1 of 11 ePosters of exceptional merit at the American College of Surgeons conference. It truly takes a whole village to raise a service. Proud of my mentors and our service. #ACSCC2024

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe who accused King Charles of genocide yesterday “demonstrated the power of blackfellas in our resistance to the ongoing violence of settler colonialism that we experience every day,” explains professor Chelsea Watego.