WA hospital overcrowding could be the real killer as health system awaits COVID-19 onslaught - ⁦ABC News⁩ Balanced thoughts from ⁦@peterallely⁩ on the front line reality of ED v CoVid abc.net.au/news/2022-02-0…

Rest of hospital refuses to go over census. Meanwhile in ED multiple patients awaiting ward beds for many hours. Ambos forcing offloads when no space/staff. 9hr waits in WR. Nothing like sharing that risk about eh?

Properly trained ER doctors can do #ecpr with neuro-intact outcomes are almost 4x that of traditional CPR. Zack Shinar and the EMCrit Crew have proven it. Why is this not becoming more mainstream? ED ECMO Project Philippe Rola Haney Mallemat Anand Swaminathan MD MPH 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 Demetris Yannopoulos Dr. Jason Bartos Lamhaut

“Due to active ongoing resuscitation, optimal sterility during the procedure may have been compromised”

Congratulations to Abdul Ihdayhid and all the Artrya Team for winning the Best Abstract Award at #SCCT2022. Thank you to the review panel for their time in assessing all 179 submissions. We are so pleased with the result. #yescct #artrya

The tango lessons are really paying off

Gulliver's Travels

The motion of the hip joint. The animation demonstrates the movement of ligaments of the hip joint capsule and inner elements like the acetabular lip and the orbicular zone. Hope you enjoy the result! #hipjoint #pelvis #femur #hip #anatomystandard #ligaments #hiphealth

Today is Bjørn Ibsen day 70 yrs ago 🇩🇰 anesthetist and later professor Bjørn Ibsen thru a tube ventilated Vivi - a 12 yr girl dying from polio Vivi survived and intensive care medicine was born This wise and brave act by small group of people is a landmark in medical history

West Germany's government's forecast for energy mix from 1974 before it was hijacked by the irrational fear of nuclear power

Chevalier Jackson performed laryngoscopy on sitting patients. He used cocaine and 3 assistants. The role of the 2nd assistant was to prevent damage to the upper lip. "A cut lip represents the most reprehensible carelessness on the part of the 2nd assistant." (Jackson: 1907)

okay but this is literally how every diagnostic scoring system works

Unlike upstairs, there are *no limits* on staffing ratios for ER nurses. On the medical floor, a single nurse can have only 4-5 patients. In the ICU, only 2 patients. In the ER, a single nurse can have 10 patients or more, some critically ill who are “admitted” to the ICU.

Latest special edition of the Broomedocs podcast is out now with ⁦Justin Morgenstern⁩ and guest nerds ⁦James Rippey⁩ ⁦Michelle Johnston⁩ ⁦Tom Cassidy⁩ #foamed #evidence #airways #resus broomedocs.com/2023/10/first1…

Ward: I don’t know lads discharging someone at 17:01 on a Friday sounds a bit risky let’s just keep them over the weekend to be safe ED: if we put pillows in the urinals we could bed at least four more people in this toilet

Top one-third (23) blogs in emergency medicine and critical care, based on the 2022 Digital Impact Factor with a maximum score of 10. Source: Digital Impact Factor: A Quality Index for Educational Blogs and Podcasts in EM & Crit Care annemergmed.com/article/S0196-… #FOAMEd #MedEd

1/ Today's 🧵is about "VT" versus "SVT with aberrancy". The aim of this thread is to provide basic tips on how to apply some of the most used criteria that might be helpful in diagnosing VT. #CardioTwitter Note that the following features are suggestive of VT, but their absence