Causeway- A great place to live; a great place to work! Opportunities out NOW inc Consultant roles with interest in: Acute Respiratory Diabetes/Endo Stroke/ COE + Band 5 nursing Meet us @ Health Care Job Fair in Dublin RDS tomorrow & learn more! #teamNORTH #ChooseCauseway

Hundreds line Omagh’s high street for a rally called ‘No going back’ It’s to call for an end to violence and sectarian conflict in NI and comes following the shooting of DCI John Caldwell on Wednesday.

“The government must accept that meeting the challenge of growing waiting lists will not be met without investment in healthcare staff” The Association’s response to the Public Accounts Committee report on managing NHS backlogs and waiting times: ow.ly/R03a50N5E99

I rarely write passionately Here’s an exception I hope it’s passion driven by evidence but due to the weight of evidence I do feel strongly about it To be clear, no animosity to authors of the recent editorial, but I believe they hold the wrong view! …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The RECOVERY trial helped save >1 million lives Here, we reflect on what it felt like to see results for the first treatment. But most remarkable are the comments from frontline NHS staff & patients. Without them none of this would’ve been possible. youtu.be/uqzPlYdRxVs

#teamtrial #ccr23 Was ‘usual care’ too good in these centres to show a difference. In which regions is early mobilisation less culturally embeded and the repeat of such a study may better demonstrate the presence or abscence of benefit?

#CCR23 #oxypicu Oxy-PICU Were screened patients more likely to get early echo/seen by cardiology to exclude congenital cardiac and allow inclusion - particulary those presenting a a sick/collapsed neonate? Knowing they are NOT cardiac is useful info ?especially in this group

#TAMEtrial #ccr23 ‘Normocapnia’ group 35-45mmhg is 4.6-6kpa - is this not actually mild hypercapnia?? Intervention group 50-55 is 6.6-7.3kpa 4.6-6 would though i think reasonably represent ‘usual care’

#ccr23 #tametrial ‘What went wrong?’ is i think a terrible view!! This is a useful result in what is accepted as a very well conducted trial and will change practice

#CRYOSTAT2trial #ccr23 Does the increased mortality in early cryo (as part of MTP in intervention group) simply reflect the greater sense of urgency to activate and deliver the MTP in sicker bleeding patients - as said no comparitor at timepoints due to lack of placebo in cntl

Msg from ICU Dr "That’s bollocks, we continuously made those decisions. That’s why it was so fucking horrible. Who to admit? Who to escalate? Who to withdraw on? There’s a reason we never exceeded physical limits & it wasn’t that the virus magically knew how many beds we had" 1\2

Utterly shocking visualisation of what we know to be the terrible state of service here. NI seemed to decompensate much more dramically with covid compared to GB and clearly not recovering. Accountable leadership needed to get a grip! DUP Sinn Féin Ulster Unionist Party

Paul Alexander is one of the last people living in an iron lung after he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. He has been using the iron lung for over 70 years and has become an advocate for polio awareness and the importance of vaccines. The iron lung, also known as a

My perspective on AAs; a 🧵 I was an ANP before medical school and am now a specialty doctor in anaesthetics. I work with 2 qualified AAs who are excellent, I am often asked for my opinion given my background, so here it is a long thread including my own story.

🚨 Next strike dates announced for Junior Doctors 48 hour full walkouts 📅 7am 22nd May- 7am 24th May 📅 7am 6th June- 7am 8th June 📥 Check your inboxes!

I understand this was not an easy decision to make. Junior doctors go into medicine to practise medicine, to save lives and continuously build on their skills in order to do so. When the system is broken, burnout is on the rise and more JDs leave, it is clear we need change.

It’s meant to be.

Causeway coast is an amazing place to be. The Causeway Anaesthesia Theatre & Critical Care Service has passionate & committed team with enormous potential. If you are a generalist looking for a rewarding role have a look Consultant Anaesthetist (2 posts) careersnetwork.bmj.com/job/210328/?tr…

Dr Chris van Tulleken: “We’ve not all got greedier & lazier over the last 30 years. Instead there has been a total failure to regulate the food companies who shape our food environment.” #BBCLauraK: “Is it really for gov…to tell what companies can put in [food]?” Dr C: “Argh!”