Today is #WorldSepsisDay Sepsis accounts for 11% of maternal deaths in Australia 1:4 of these deaths is caused by Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus/ GAS somanz.org/downloads/2017… #ThinkSepsis #ActFast #StopSepsis #SaveLives

1/ WHERE does ascites come from? HOW do diuretics treat ascites? ARE you ready for a #tweetorial? #livertwitter #medtwitter #MedEd

You've probably heard that Bicarbonate has to turn into CO2 to raise the pH. “Don’t give bicarb if you can’t increase ventilation.” But how much CO2 is there in an amp of sodium bicarbonate? A bicarb 🧵 1/

Adductor Canal Block (ACB) Are you using ACB in your routine practice? Please share the indications! We are using Proximal ACB in 3 different ways depending on the indications for Anaesthesia or postoperative analgesia: 1. As 2nd Injection for Dual Subsartorial Block (DSB):

Gentle reminder as you start booking meeting dates for 2024 to look critically at your portfolio of non-clinical activities Is it time to step off a role and promote someone else?

Let's review an intubation together - a 🧵

Myth 2: Hyperlactatemia needs a fluid bolus Ping Cliff Reid @pulmcrit The “Lacto-bolo” reflex…

I asked ChatGPT to come up with some mildly mocking terms to describe people who believe anaesthesia is possible to achieve in humans. The best three it offered were "Napwizards", "slumberquacks" and "numbologists". I quite like those and might get my NHS name badge updated.

So can the CT apply for the locum PA shift? Why is the PA being paid more than the registrar when they can do less than an FY1? I hate it here.

One advantage of anaesthetising in theatre rather than the anaesthetic bay, is that you keep it a team sport. Surgeons can watch, send good vibes, help as required - just as we do for them.

🧵1st workshop: Paediatric EEG. Great to listen to Patrick Purdon and Choon Looi Bong. Utility of eeg monitoring in very young reinforced. Know you drug signatures and you will be able to recognize for the most part what drug is being delivered when assessing the DSA. #WCA2024

The European Society of Emergency Medicine has published new recommendations on Emergency #Airway Management 🧵

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Very pleased to announce that ASOS-Paeds has been published in The Lancet. Well done and thank you to the ASOS-Paeds investigators. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ioi4_3CjG8u…

ICU Stories: While walking around the ICU at the beginning of your night shift, you notice that the respiratory therapist increased the FiO2 from 90 to 100% in a mechanically ventilated patient. Bedside monitor shows O2 sat 90%. You decide to read a bit more about the patient:

‘When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.’ In the revised version of the Royal College of Anaesthetists QI compendium, percentages for conversion from regional to general anaesthesia for C sections are no longer called ‘targets’. It's just a word. Why does it matter? 1/

Congratulations to all our EM colleagues in Portugal which has officially recognised EM as a speciality. Fabulous news for many amazing clinicians (and patients) in Portugal.

Brain health: A concern for anaesthesiologists and... : European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care journals.lww.com/ejaintensiveca… Perioperative Brain Health should be a Mission of every anesthesiologists and intensivists, including the health of our own brain!

ICU (Central Venous/Arterial) Line Secrets - Part 1: An ICU where the patients have no central lines & are not connected to ventilators is not a real ICU. This may be a controversial statement but in my humble opinion not far from truth

🌟 STROKE - Vascular territories and neurodeficits