My beautiful mum Sheila taken too soon because of hep c & the contaminated blood scandal, an unassuming but tenacious, hard working, supportive mum & grand mother who’s in my thought every single day but especially today along with 1000s of others ❤️‍🩹 #ContaminatedBloodReport

'People put their trust in doctors and the government to keep them safe. And that trust was betrayed.'

Infected Blood Inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff says the government 'compounded the agony' of those affected by the scandal.

We have published our Critical Care Nursing Workforce Optimisation Plan and Staffing Standards 2024-2027
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BACCN 💙 The RCN Intensive Care Society 💙 CC3N Paediatric Critical Care Society NOrF RCN Critical Care & Flight Nursing Forum

#meansystemicpressure #haemodynamic #hemodynamic #Guyton case example.

Severe pancreatitis, large volume fluid resuscitation, not sedated or ventilated.
Cardiac output monitor shows a high CO and low SVR

Announcing another big milestone in the development of our support offering for #AorticDissection patients & their families. Welcome Emma! SCTS UK Vascular Society British Cardiovascular Society UK Maternal Cardiology Society Nursing Times aorticdissectionawareness.org/news/emma-hope…

As part of our workforce plan and in collaboration with @CC3N we have also developed an extended Adult Critical Care Nursing Career pathway
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BACCN 💙 The RCN Intensive Care Society 💙 CC3N Paediatric Critical Care Society NOrF RCN Critical Care & Flight Nursing Forum

Our Critical Care Nursing Workforce Optimisation Plan and Staffing Standards 2024-2027 addresses a number of key issues impacting on critical care nursing
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BACCN 💙 The RCN Intensive Care Society 💙 CC3N Paediatric Critical Care Society NOrF RCN Critical Care & Flight Nursing Forum

One of 64 Small Blues today @MagogDown. This one taking a liking to cheese and onion crisp residue!
BC Cambs and Essex

Impact of sex on postcardiotomy #ECLS
🔍 >1.8K adults, ♀ 40.8%
♀ more mitral/tricuspid valve surgery
♂ more coronary artery surgery
♀ ECLS more common intraop, ♂ postop
♂ more ventricular unloading/ #IABP
♀ more postop RV failure/limb ischemia
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Bisoprolol does not increase the rate of serious adverse events in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at high risk of exacerbation.

Do use beta blockers in COPD if clinically indicated.

⁦JAMA Network⁩ #ATS2024 #COPD jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Great to see the new cardiac surgery postoperative recovery unit opening within the Critical Care Unit at ⁦Royal Papworth Hospital NHS FT 💙⁩ 👏👏 ⁦Erin Russell⁩ ⁦Michelle Barfoot - RN⁩ Jonee Doronila Jason Ali⁩ Mike Hoy instagram.com/p/C7FG9qOrON1/…

Most patients with sepsis don't need anti-anaerobic antibiotics. But most get them anyway. Why not, what's the harm?

I worry the harm is considerable.

Our new study in JAMA Internal Medicine: using a 15-month pip-tazo shortage to answer this question.

1/n

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On the topic of role models:

A testament to power and determination here in Jenny Vaughan | Just Culture for all in healthcare obituary (@bmj_latest print this week)

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Continuing our series: What can #AorticDissection patients do? After a Type A dissection in 2023, Amy Rodda returned to work as a Care Services Manager for adults with learning disabilities. Now she has been named 'Carer of the Year' in the local community awards 🩷 Cllr Allan Ogle

Name a tastier road in Britain. I’ll wait.

Suggest it would be a lot safer and more sustainable to invest in substantive staffing levels to meet the demand, rather than stretching them until they snap with overtime incentives.

Join our dynamic panel discussion at #SOA24 on transitioning to consultant roles in critical care. Consultants and trainees will share personal experiences, insights, and practical tips for the journey, from where to apply, through to your trajectory over the next decade.

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Not sure who is doing my colonoscopy today if NHS staff aren’t working weekends. The local plumber? 😆💩 #colonoscopy

Tricky case with important lessons - almost always safer to intubate (rather than sedate) an agitated, critically ill patient for a CT scan 👉