When a medical patient is admitted to hospital, they should undergo a VTE risk assessment, with thromboprophylaxis prescribed in the vast majority of them.
The trouble? The widely used risk assessment tool isn't evidence based. @acutemedicine
Social determinants of cardiac arrest. In Northern France, areas with social deprivation had higher rates of cardiac arrest and lower rates of bystander CPR. @EmergencyMedBMJ
https://t.co/1BCNrCWEKW
”Do whatever turns you on. Whatever you are interested in and get excited about, that is what you should do.”
Some words of wisdom to all young researchers and students from physicist Michael Kosterlitz.
#NobelPrize
Anticoagulation in people with significant renal impairment doesn't always require warfarin, but balancing risk and benefit is tricky. Nice article in @RPTHjournal.
https://t.co/CqGeyXfvcK
📌 Ebola research letter
Authors contextualise this specific outbreak and recommend seven actions for an effective response and rapid control. Read more: https://t.co/Hh7bmKKAyU
✍️ Ministry of Health, Hygiene and Social Security, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; WHO Country Office
King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going
Reports that the Government plans to slash planned doctor numbers and rely on AI are a massive, dangerous gamble.
"It is crushingly disappointing to see Government apparently planning to simply accept that the low number of doctors we have in this country is just a fact of life." says Amit Kochhar, BMA workforce lead.
Find out more https://t.co/6PBvRWPFyJ