🚨 BLOODBATH in Asian Markets
Over $950 BILLION wiped out from Asian stock markets following US-Iran strikes.
🇰🇷 South Korea's KOSPI is down -9.2%, wiping out ₩561,200,000,000,000 ($377 BILLION)
🇯🇵 Japan's NIKKEI is down -2.7%, wiping out ¥38,610,000,000,000 ($236 BILLION)
🇨🇳 China's SSE is down -2.3%, wiping out ¥1,430,000,000,000 ($210 BILLION)
🇹🇼 Taiwan's stock market is down -3.1%, wiping out NT$3,813,000,000,000 ($127 BILLION)
🇮🇳 India's NIFTY is down -0.3%, wiping out ₹1,260,000,000,000 ($14.7 BILLION).
BREAKING: South Korea's KOSPI stock market trading has been halted for 20 minutes after crashing -8%.
Over ₩488,000,000,000,000 ($328 BILLION) has been wiped out from South Korean stocks today.
What do we really know about the erector spinae plane block after 10 years?
Our Open Access #review is now available in BJA Education.
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At 5 p.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching more strikes against Iran to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The Commander in Chief has directed the strikes to hold Iranian forces accountable.
Goons can march like this only with the express support of state authority. I have it said it before and I can repeat it again that goons in most parts of Kenya are under the Express control the PS Office of President.
BREAKING: Iran has now launched missile and drone attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, and the UAE in the past minutes. This is the largest Iranian attack in months.
Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz is closed after firing a warning shot at a vessel attempting to cross the waterway.
Follow live updates: https://t.co/zLvIQDxaYF
Critical Physiology Series #3 🤓
🫀Diastolic Blood Pressure in Critical Care: The Forgotten Pressure
Diastolic blood pressure is often ignored because we are trained to focus on systolic pressure and mean arterial pressure. Yet in critical care, diastolic pressure may tell us something very important about vascular tone.
Systolic pressure is strongly influenced by stroke volume and arterial compliance. Mean arterial pressure is the average pressure driving organ perfusion. Diastolic pressure, however, is closely related to the pressure that remains in the arterial system when the heart is relaxing.
This matters because a very low diastolic pressure often reflects severe vasodilation.
In septic shock, the patient may still have an acceptable systolic pressure while diastolic pressure is already very low. This pattern can be an early signal that vascular tone is failing. The circulation is losing its capacity to maintain pressure between heartbeats.
Diastolic pressure also matters for the heart itself. Coronary perfusion occurs mainly during diastole, especially in the left ventricle. When diastolic pressure falls, myocardial oxygen supply may decrease at the same time that tachycardia, fever, pain, agitation or shock increase myocardial oxygen demand.
This is why the combination of tachycardia and low diastolic pressure is particularly dangerous. The heart is beating faster, diastole is shorter and the pressure available for coronary perfusion is lower.
At the bedside, diastolic pressure should not replace clinical judgment or mean arterial pressure. But it should change the way we interpret shock.
A patient with MAP 65 mmHg and diastolic pressure 55 mmHg is not the same as a patient with MAP 65 mmHg and diastolic pressure 35 mmHg.
The first patient may have an acceptable vascular tone. The second may have profound vasoplegia hidden behind a “normal” MAP.
In critical care, diastolic blood pressure is not just the lower number. It is a window into vascular tone, coronary perfusion and the price the heart pays during shock.
References 📚
Ospina Tascón, 2020, DOI: 10.1186/s13613-020-00658-8
Magder, 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2018.09.003
President William Ruto has officially signed the Sovereign Wealth Fund Act into law.
Under the law, 30% of Kenya's mineral and petroleum revenues will be set aside for the Future Generations Fund, one of the three funds under the Sovereign Wealth Fund.
**UC San Diego, just published today in Nature.**
Researchers used teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoid robots ("Surgie") to perform the world's first laparoscopic gallbladder removals on live pigs in a preclinical trial.
- One case: human + robot team
- One case: two robots working together
Fully in standard OR setup with general tools. Proof-of-concept for versatile humanoids in surgery.
More: https://t.co/0ZzSL3RF0e
Project: https://t.co/xLu9BxTe1F
Not fully autonomous yet — teleoperated milestone.
BREAKING: President Trump says $19.2 trillion has been committed to US manufacturing investment.
"Not billion, not million. Trillion with a T."
He also said AI will require more energy than the entire country currently produces.
Treasury CS John Mbadi has appointed six members to the National Infrastructure Fund Board for a three-year term, effective July 8, 2026:
• James Mworia Mwirigi (Centum CEO)
• Fahima Ali Ahmed Zein
• Christopher Kibui Maranga
• Latoya Ouna
• Lawrence Kibet
• Mohammed Abdirahman Hassan
This is me talking to my computer without making a sound.
After just a month of collecting data, our model is already approaching dictation in accuracy. We were surprised to see that it generalizes to unseen participants as well!
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