A snapshot of UK doctor numbers in a single department, in a single hospital, in Australia. As of today our ED has : 26 UK trained Resident Medical Officers 23 UK trained Registrars 10 UK trained Consultants Pay your staff what they're worth Steve Barclay or lose them

Here’s the full version with Jan’s swearing!! Clinical signs are insufficiently reliable to exclude oesophageal intubation. Don’t use them for this & if a bear cartoon isn’t enough for you we’ve even got a paper in ⁦𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢⁩ in a few weeks vimeo.com/833224925

American doctors are explaining the difference between them and other healthcare staff platinumpizza™ @thegradmedic Anonymous Anaesthetist Dr Tanya Annie Dr Sandeep Bansal Royal College of Anaesthetists Royal College of Physicians

CVP waveform (note: there is generally an electromechanical delay of ~ 80 msec between the atrial depolarization of the P wave & the pressure deflection of atrial systole represented by the "a" wave)

🔓New Royal College of Anaesthetists National Audit Projects data shows that 1 in 5 of patients with a DNACPR recommendation who had a peri-operative cardiac arrest survived to leave hospital. Jerry Nolan Jasmeet Soar Andrew Kane Iain Moppett Richard Armstrong Emira Kuršumović Tim Cook 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

If you want a quick history lesson to understand precisely why we are in the dire straits we are in in the NHS - this video is a must watch. If you start to dig deeper into this you’ll also understand some of the workforce plans a lot better

Some more anaesthetic brilliance from Dr. Glaucomflecken

Going with the flow: how flow theory can enhance clinical teaching in anaesthesia. New correspondence by Chan et al #anaesthesia #perioperative tea bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…

🔓Given the climate harms of nitrous oxide, concerted efforts should be made to rationalise its use and resources should be committed to supporting this at local, regional and national levels. Alifia Chakera drstephharrison @DrCliffShelton #OpenAccess 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

🔴NEW: Physician associates accused of‘illegally’ prescribing at dozens of NHS trusts and missing life-threatening diagnoses, dossier claims. Doctors’ Association UK’s survey of 600+ medics comes as The BMA says “still time” to stop “dangerous” PA regulation 🧵 telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/2…

End this experiment

The NHS uses the @NIHRevidence to formulate and build essentially business cases Reading some of the documents around the implementation of PAs, there are some interesting findings

Been a busy 12 hours of PA news Here's a summary thread of all the latest in case you've missed anything! 1/🧵

⭐️Anaphylaxis algorithm⭐️ Specifically written for the peri-operative setting! BUT how does it differ from other algorithms?! ⭐️Early IV adrenaline in small doses, titrated to effect, before establishing a low-dose IV adrenaline infusion if needed⭐️ 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Dileep Lobo RehamBaamer 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 BJS Open British Journal of Anaesthesia Congratulations from 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢. Thanks for publishing with us …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

"The rate of CO2 accumulation in arterial blood during apnoea was not altered by administration of HFNO" RCT in 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Our latest post out now! Ketofol - what it is and why we love it. anaestheasier.com/ketofol/

🚨Potential question alert! 🚨

I hope you don't do any of the steps mentioned above. And please tell your friends to not do this either 😉