Leon du Toit

Anaesthesiologist, student of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

[Bruce Biccard @BruceBiccard]

Well done to the African Perioperative Research Group APORG @AfricanSOS @GH_PeriopCare @EECCGlobal

[WashU Medicine Anesthesiology @WashUanesthesia]

Dr. @SunnyLouMD was awarded first place in the Best Clinical Research Abstract competition at #WCA2024! Her research on surgical transfusion risk prediction has the potential to enhance patient outcomes & streamline healthcare resources. https://t.co/LE7R4fUJ6E

[Leon du Toit @LeonALIVE]

@alex_torborg Congratulations, Alex!

[Leon du Toit @LeonALIVE]

Tim Cook on the data we need to collect on airway management #WCA2024

[Leon du Toit @LeonALIVE]

Excited about The Law according to the Law 😄 #WCA2024

[Leon du Toit @LeonALIVE]

We are reminded that while airway disasters are rare, aspiration remains a problem, we are bad at doing (=documenting) airway assessment, blind techniques like Fastrach LMA have low success rate, we need to support airway databases.

[Leon du Toit @LeonALIVE]

@BruceBiccard Loved the EarthCast Podcast; can’t wait to get my hands on the book. Congrtulations, Bruce!

[Unicyclemedic @unicycle_medic]

Magic gloves

[EMakasa @emakasa]

Improving surgical healthcare services in LMICs should concern you even if the “hole isn’t at your end”

[Emmanuelle Duceppe @EmmaDuceppe]

Results from the POISE-3 trial published in Annals of IM: Hypotension-Avoidance Versus Hypertension-Avoidance Strategies in Noncardiac Surgery: An International Randomized Controlled Trial https://t.co/GpFALNvkBV

[Bruce Biccard @BruceBiccard]

#ASOS Surgical Risk Calculator is now available on the Google Play store. Good for #Surgical Risk stratification in Africa. Thanks to @Net4PCc and @3tewodros and @Mr_FitsK for supporting the app development https://t.co/P9uggqZUD0

[Bruce Biccard @BruceBiccard]

Congratulations to @ChristellaAlph1 and her family. Such a wonderful celebration of important #perioperative medicine work.

[Leon du Toit @LeonALIVE]

@SPAQIedu Unexpected Thrombocytopenia in the preop assessment (even if it is mild) - think could this be cirrhosis? Check the FIB-4 index. And consider fibroscan (or eq.)

[SPAQI @SPAQIedu]

VOCAL-Penn: best risk score for surgery in cirrhosis? Don’t just go with Child-Pugh. #Periop2023

[Leon du Toit @LeonALIVE]

Welcome to ⁦@SPAQIedu⁩ ⁦@PeriopSummit⁩ 2023 Orlando!

“Let’s get this party started.”

[Leon du Toit @LeonALIVE]

To all the divers.

[Emmanuelle Duceppe @EmmaDuceppe]

Important work by BASEL-PMI team showing adverse long-term outcomes after postop myocardial injury, irrespective of etiology and MI classification. Once again evidence that categorizing as "type II" and not addressing is detrimental to patients https://t.co/o6LzNBgyon

[Emmanuelle Duceppe @EmmaDuceppe]

High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I thresholds (Abbott) to identify myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery: a cohort study https://t.co/twGyBB4hQA

[Jessica Spence @jess_spence13]

It turns out the relationship between perioperative benzos and postoperative delirium is not as clear as many think! More research required!@BJAJournals⁩ ⁦@DataPartyInc⁩⁦@PHRIresearch⁩ ⁦@ebelleycote⁩⁦@RichardWhitloc2⁩ #bfree https://t.co/AiMk4yTx3l