The ANZCA ESN Nitrous Oxide webinar is underway! Thanks to everyone who has made this happen. We begin with Royal College of Anaesthetists Environmental Sustainability Lead Paul Southall on the development of the RCoA and @COAIrl Consensus Statement on removal of pipeline N2O in the UK & Ireland

If you poke enough spines, you'll eventually have a patient with a post-dural puncture headache ☹️. Epidural blood patch is a tried and true treatment--check out this video for an update and step-by-step technique! #DukeRAP Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ Ed Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA 🇺🇸🇵🇭 youtu.be/kcTckVObcXU?si…

Daniel Angus is absolutely on the money here.

Let's break down just how bad Labor’s Help to Buy scheme is. We know it will drive up house prices & lock out 99.8% of renters. I want to explain how even for the 0.2% who do get access it will force them into severe housing stress or they may not be able to buy a home at all🧵

A free online course aims to bust COVID misinformation and teach people how to stop the virus spreading in schools. But perhaps its greatest challenge is engaging people in the first place — particularly those who believe COVID is harmless.ab.co/3MUMgnZ

On this day in 1986, Canadian author Robert Munsch released his book Love You Forever. One of the most successful children's books ever written, it is beloved by generations of Canadians and others worldwide. Let's learn more about it (and try not to cry)! 🧵1/10

Can the Pharmacy Guild of Australia please provide a list of pharmacies that have gone broke and the 20,000 jobs lost for women? More than a year into double prescriptions, I’ve not seen a single pharmacy close & the Guild needs to explain why we should ever trust them. #auspol

Westmead represent, great work boss Mark Priestley FANZCA etc

When I was young I fixed my parents’ computer and now that I’m older I fix computers for my kids. Are we the only generation that knows how computers work?

You know what would be far more impactful and inclusive nature? Not charging people around the world to read scientific articles on your site.

Very pleased to present the CLIP-II cryopreserved platelet trial at AABB on 19 Oct 24. An extraordinary collaboration between Lifeblood, the Australian Defence Force, the Uni of Qld and Monash Uni, the ANZICS CTG, ANZCA CTN, ANZSCTS and 11 Australian hospitals

I used to like this book but even the recent edition says oral iron must be dosed TID 👎🏼 PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ORAL IRON MORE THAN ONCE A DAY 🙏🏼 YOU ARE DOING MORE HARM THAN BENEFIT! ALTERNATE DAY DOSING WORKS BEST 🙏🏼 doi: 10.3324/haematol.2019.220830

Anaesthetists should adopt a patient‐centric approach to labour analgesia and embrace the combined spinal‐epidural Ron George & Dr. Ruthi Landau - 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 #OBAnes #LaborDoesntHaveToHurt Wiley Online Library …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

Targeted surgical local infiltration analgesia, adductor canal blockade, genicular nerve blocks, and the iPACK block are promising approaches that facilitate postoperative analgesia after knee surgery. New review by White et al #surgery #knee #anaesthesia bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…

🇦🇺 has a gas export problem, not a gas supply problem - we export 80-90% of our gas (with little return to taxpayers). The Govt should use export controls to give 🇦🇺 households & businesses immediate cost of living bill relief. There's no need to open more gas fields.

• There is moderate evidence that intrathecal morphine does not increase rates of sedation or hypoxaemia after non-obstetric surgery. • There is very low-quality evidence that IT morphine might ⬆️ the rate of respiratory depression. Kariem Eric Albrecht #anaesthesia

Avoiding unrecognised oesophageal intubation The Russ Carney of America & Difficult Airway Society (DAS) have agreed to drop ‘no trace wrong place’ The message now is that we need to exclude oesophageal intubation by identifying SUSTAINED EXHALED CO2 This requires 4 elements -CO2 rises & falls with respiration

When VL was used as the first-choice device: ⬇️ patients experiencing at least 1 complication (5.5% vs. 9.7%) ⬇️ 3+ intubation attempts (1.2% v 2%) ⬇️ need to change operator (1.8% vs. 4.9%) ⬇️ oesophageal intubation (0.5% vs. 1.4%) #anaesthesia #MedTwitter

The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up. Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes?? Protect the right to protest! RT!