Chris Yates

Anaesthetics & ICM doctor. Veteran. Part-time soldier. Interested in PHEM, ICM, POCUS, Human Factors and Trauma. Views are my own.

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

Optimising your anaesthetic practice. A thread 🧵 #MedTwitter

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@Doc_IonaCollins I’ve used it quite a bit in the North East. Been activated to several OOHCAs. Responders seem to often end up arriving at or around the same time as paramedics. Vast majority of activations seem to be middle of the night

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@aakashgupta Rule of life: don’t let anybody yank on your neck

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@annaroseridgway 🙃

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@Stsantek This may be the worst take I’ve ever seen 🙃

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@TomHCalver Core trainee to Consultant in 4 years??? @TomCalver clearly has no clue how medical training actually works

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@wesstreeting Ahh excellent - with a plan for all those extra staff you’ve just refused to invest in to run it? 🙃

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

UNISON, the largest NHS staff union, stands in solidarity with resident doctors in @TheBMA striking this week for a fair deal.

UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan:
"The government’s handling of this dispute — from media attacks to pulling training posts — is deeply concerning.

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@Nigel_Farage What are your actual policies?

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Greens win by-election to replace jailed councillor https://t.co/hvn7ZCRlJ2

[LBC @LBC]

Green Party beat Reform UK to win Kent by-election after councillor jailed https://t.co/zb6wwNE8ud

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@somerset_mat @ShaunLintern How do you think Consultants are trained? 🙃

[Rob Yates @robyatestweets]

🌳 A voice for everyone 🌳

This Thursday, Cliftonville residents get to decide what kind of politician they want representing them at KCC.

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@NWJK @OrthopodReg You’re not even guaranteed a job for 10 years as a new starting doctor in the NHS! About 50% of FY2s couldn’t get a training number last year… where’s the loyalty from the NHS towards them?!

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@IsabellaAmara1 Protects against sandworms

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@catherineroyuk Yep there absolutely should be representation from anaesthesia or OAA given the increasing complexity of obstetrics and ongoing issues with reports of inadequate analgesia in labouring women 🤯

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

North East emergency care team gets 'life-saving' boost https://t.co/xHwQhithoa

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@isitsleepytime The NHS can’t guarantee most graduates a job for their first five years… how would that work??

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@agemjourney Cappuccini audit?! Very specific to anaesthetics and can do it in a day - could close the loop and repeat after a month

[Chris Yates @GasDocYates]

@jemmm85517813 @MrPLC Not sure you understand causation and association there… 🤔

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today.

Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025.

Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon.

Now here's what you're "saving":

Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity.

Coal costs $69–$169/MWh.
Wind costs $27–$53/MWh.
Solar costs $38–$78/MWh.

99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind.

That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room.

And the human cost of what you're "saving"?

460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023)

All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.