Claire Weekes

BSc Graduate Paramedic | UEA | MCPara | Passionate about prehospital research, education and the outdoors | All views are my own

[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

@nationalrailenq Now moving again. Thank you

[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

@nationalrailenq Will this remain 20 minute delays until this time? Reduced speed through but not complete stoppage? Currently held at Mill Hill Broadway…

[EEAST Primary & Urgent Care @EEAST_UrgCare]

Emily and Claire, both on tACP training pathways with the Advanced Practice Team, both celebrated 5yrs of service with @EastEnglandAmb in #Norwich today 🚑 Great to have you with us - here’s to the next 5! 👍 @riches_rob @antkitchener @iampaulgates

[EEAST Primary & Urgent Care @EEAST_UrgCare]

@EastEnglandAmb Urgent Care tACP cohorts 1 & 2 together with some of our faculty in #Cambridge today, kicking off a week of intensive knowledge and skill building! @riches_rob @iampaulgates @antkitchener @SJB293

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

If you intubate you need to read the #PREOXI trial!
-n=1301 people requiring intubation in ED/ ICU were randomized to preoxygenation with oxygen mask vs non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
-NIV HALVED the risk of hypoxemia: 9 vs 18%
-NIV reduced mortality: 0.2% vs 1.1%

#CCR24
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[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

@CarlSmithCoP @ParamedicsUK @timnutbeam @tracyniks @helenbeau1 @CoP_Lewis @emilyhussey26 ❤️

[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

1st time back on snow since visiting the French fracture clinic last year 🤦‍♀️
Very nervous 😬but it was so good to be back
One of the best ways to start annual leave 💪 🏂
#mentalchallenge #snowboarding #noaccidents

[EEAST Primary & Urgent Care @EEAST_UrgCare]

Best practice in palliative and end of life care today for @EastEnglandAmb tACP cohort 1, led by subject matter experts from @Hospicstfrancis / @stnichhospice and kindly hosted by @WolfsonCam @iampaulgates @MelissaD_85 @EEAST_ACL @antkitchener

[Dr Simon Butler (ACP-Paramedicine/Neuroscientist) @SJB293]

Palliative care study day for our trainee ACPs. We hope that our entire team will soon complete this training to help even more patients achieve the ‘good death’ every person deserves. @EEAST_UrgCare @EEAST_Education Sincere thanks @StFrancisChEv @stnichhospice

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

Here’s another pulmonary physiology question that *everyone* who gives O2 to patients ought to know:

What is the primary mechanism by which supplemental oxygen can increase PaCO2 in someone with severe COPD?

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[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

tACP Week 1 complete ✅

Study day, 3 day induction conference @WolfsonCam with the excellent @EEAST_UrgCare faculty and rounding out the week with my first shift!

Many books to read and many reflections to be made along the way- here’s to the next 3 years 🥂

[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

Interesting visual way of showing flow rates through cannulas- useful teaching aid for sure 👌

[Megan 💙 @SNmegs]

Ever wondered the size and colours of cannulas?! @ConorHamilt0n explains it beautifully here! @QUBSONM #studentnurse #thirdyear #cannulation #clinicalskills #visuallearning

[LKS ASE @LksAse]

The association of prehospital end-tidal carbon dioxide with survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Prehospital Emergency Care: Vol 0, No ja https://t.co/hjdeG8hWJs

[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

Exciting opportunity- looking forward to the new challenge 💪 #ueaparamedic

[EEAST Primary & Urgent Care @EEAST_UrgCare]

Introducing @WeekesClaire 🚑 Claire, a Paramedic at @EastEnglandAmb, has recently been recruited to one of our training #ACP posts in #Norwich. On her successful recruitment to the role she had this to say…1/2

[EEAST Primary & Urgent Care @EEAST_UrgCare]

We’re recently recruited 25 brilliant Paramedics to trainee #ACP posts within our Urgent Care Advanced Practice teams across @EastEnglandAmb - excited to start them on their educational journey with @UEA_Health soon. @antkitchener @EEAST_Education @MelissaD_85 @iampaulgates

[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

Nice little refresher on Basics of blood gases. Not something we use everyday in ambulance land but loved learning about it on the Resus ALS course a few years ago #ueaparamedic #resuscouncil #refresher #skillfade

[Jon Barratt @EMDocJB]

I have ridiculous feeling of excitement yet to many this probably a meaningless screenshot!

3 years of solid effort to get to this point

#SPEAR #POCUS @zollemsfire @ButterflyNetInc @DrPaulRees @phemDM @DrVictorInyang @HaldenHB @EastAngliAirAmb

[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

@ResPara_JB Is there a link to this please? Very interesting concept

[Claire Weekes @WeekesClaire]

@EEAST_BHawkins @KissFMUK Would have been worse the other way round! 100% worth the potential embarrassment.

Nice spotting you the other day!