Stop telling women that doing pelvic floor exercises & wearing pads is the ONLY way to manage leaking of urine when coughing or exercising (stress urinary incontinence) or after a strong uncontrollable urge to urinate (urgency urinary incontinence)
Instead tell women that low oestrogen levels may contribute to urinary incontinence
@Dr_N_Wiggins@set@GWH_NHS Thank you Dr Wiggins and SET team for the session today. It was a pleasure to attend it and will be able to carry the salient points learnt today going forward in patient management.
I’ve listened to more than 500 podcast episodes in the last 2 years.
Possibly a bit excessive, but these are the 12 podcasts that have changed my life and helped me grow my business 👇
Can we come up with a thread of acronyms used in medicine that you end up having to rapidly google at the back of a ward round as an FY1 please ? #Tipsfornewdocs#MedTwitter
The world's most valuable skill:
Communicating effectively.
Messing this up could ruin your career.
Here are 7 communication frameworks to help you sail through those difficult conversations:
This month, we will be sharing a series of classic #OnePagers for PGY-1s joining the #ICU team. Welcome!
#TipsForNewDocs#FOAMed#FOAMcc
1️⃣Ventilator Modes. An overview of the different modes (VC, PC, PRVC, PS, SIMV, etc) of mechanical ventilation 🫁 & values to set for each🎛️.
"As a result, health experts have called for doctors and nurses to be allowed to take 20-minute power naps during night shifts."
I'm not even allowed to use this "bench" because it's for nurses only.
Our Research and Innovation Team have successfully recruited 450 patients to the Recovery Trial – our biggest contribution to a randomised control trial to date. A massive well done to the team!
To see a summary of the trial two years on, have a look at the timeline below.
We have been working on some fantastic NEW modules for our induction package. Take a look at the 17 new #PEM focused induction sessions 🤩
New modules ➡️ https://t.co/nhff9vzE7O
Still time to register!
More info ➡️ https://t.co/wgCWbs5Uu3
To register ➡️ https://t.co/2lVW2QBo4o
QR Bar in ED . No alcohol served ! just quicker access to guidelines , policies & educational tools #education#rapidaccess#learning&education#patientsafety#thelittlethingsthatsavetime
This week, our research team have become the first in the world to trial a new method of pacemakers - to improve the lives of cardiac patients.
The pacemaker will coordinate the pumping of the heart and may improve heart function, with results shown in around 22 months.
Entresto is not effective when given in the days following an MI in patients with LV impairment. Let the heart heal, then re-assess the LV. https://t.co/GTSI1OqQJw
NICE has today published final guidance on the first treatment in two decades for sickle cell disease.
Hundreds of people will be eligible for the new treatment Crizanlizumab.
Find out more: https://t.co/EibfxZI1Te
No quarantine for Indian 🇮🇳 travellers to UK 🇬🇧 fully vaccinated with Covishield or another UK-approved vaccine from 11 October.
Thanks to Indian government for close cooperation over last month.