Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

Paramedic at @Ldn_Ambulance, studying @traumamasters at QMUL. ND. She/her.

[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

@repoohrepus All day I've thought about how to convey the depths of emotions I felt on receiving this message, and I'll just say: thank you. You make every hardship & obstacle faced along the way absolutely worth it. I don't say it often, but you make me proud to be a paramedic💚

[Phil Solomon @repoohrepus]

@dystopiarcadia Hi. Hope you’re well. Thursday was 6 months since you got me through my cardiac arrest. I’m a stone lighter, fitter, and very positive in my outlook. Thank you!

[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

@BTPNetworkResp thank you so much for the festive treats! Wishing you all a safe and merry festive season 🎄🌟 -- from @Ldn_Ambulance Westminster Station 😁🚑

[Henry Madison @RageSheen]

I believe Covid is the first disease in recorded human history that humans have deliberately chosen to ‘live with’. Because that’s an empty slogan, it deliberately disguises two fundamentally different meanings. /1

[Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @thomasdolphin]

In case you’re looking for the tweet that inspired the DM article, so you can see what I did with the money…

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Here’s a video I made breaking down this amazing case of an elderly lady who suddenly collapsed to the ground in cardiac arrest

#FOAMed

[Alex Warren @alexfwarren]

A story about RJWP

There was a tradition at GKT that after their own exams the final year committee would organise a mock OSCE for the 3rd/4th years. This was a huge undertaking running an 18 station circuit for 400+ students.

Naturally we were often short on volunteers 1/

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 1990, the windshield of British Airways Flight 5390 came off at an altitude of 17,000 feet. This triggered a sudden decompression in the cockpit, resulting in the captain being partially ejected out of the aircraft.

As luck would have it, Nigel Ogden, a flight attendant, was on his way into the cockpit at that moment. He managed to grab hold of the captain and maintain his grip for over 20 minutes while the copilot attempted an urgent landing.

Although the majority of the crew presumed that the pilot had already lost his life, Ogden did not let go.

There was a prevailing fear that if Ogden did release his hold, the pilot's body might strike the plane's engine, wing, or stabilizer, causing even more chaos.

All Ogden knew was that the pilot was gradually slipping more and more out of the window and his head was continuously being battered against the airplane's body.

Finally, after a distressing 20-minute flight with a gaping window, the aircraft was safely brought down at Southampton Airport. In the course of events, Ogden suffered from frostbite on his face, damage to one of his eyes, and a dislocated shoulder. In a miraculous turn of events, the pilot survived the ordeal, although he had frostbite and multiple fractures on his arms and hands.

The image is a recreation from the television series "Mayday!"

[Dr Philip Lee @drphiliplee1]

Taylor Swift as European Emergency Vehicles, a thread 🧵

[Dr Kate Cushing #SaveOurNHS @KateCushing2]

Middlesbrough yesterday.
Another big skip of what looks like unused hospital equipment
rumoured 2 b what wasn’t used in Nightingale Hospital-
if true-a shocking waste of useable equipment & money!
Why not use it? Doesn’t seem faulty?
Who has pocketed the money from contract?

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Monday was another damning day for the government at the Covid Inquiry.

It is becoming clearer what the recommendations from the Inquiry are likely to be…

But there is also a bigger question raised about criminality…
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[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

Happy #InternationalParamedicsDay ! So happy to be doing a job I love, every day with new challenges and learning opportunities!

(PS: a friend spotted me and took those action and aerial shots!)

[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

For the #NHS75 birthday, I gave my 48th blood donation! @GiveBloodNHS 😊🩸🅱️💉

[Alexandra Ulrich @alex_ulrich1]

Often, published research doesn’t provide the ‘backstory’ to how the research idea came about.

I’ve just published this paper which I’m very proud of and wanted to share it with you.

So here’s a little story about how it came about. 🧵

https://t.co/cUuhItUOmO

[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

Great initiative to get men opening up about their mental health 👏

[Walk&Talk999 @WalkandTalk999]

Fantastic day speaking at @StGeorgesUni wellbeing Conference today thanks to @BlueLightSGUL for inviting us

[Martin Mist @LondonMisty]

Just finished delivering our APP critical care assessment centre over the weekend. Thank you to all the candidates and faculty.

Great work @KenCrossley1 @KeirRutherford @JBRousey @BrowneeNick for all of your hard work in organisation and delivery.

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[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

Such a great bunch of people to spend the past month with.. and now onwards and upwards! 😊

[London Ambulance Service @Ldn_Ambulance]

Introducing our newest #TeamLAS Clinical Team Managers, who received their certificates at @MillwallFC's stadium 👏

CTMs have at least +4 years of frontline experience, and their role includes leading and managing clinicians and providing clinical expertise on-scene.

[Ali Hosin @DrAliHosin]

Junior doctors on strike outside @uclh today sing a message to the health secretary - "we just want fair pay"

#JuniorDoctorsStrike

[Phil Collins💙 @PhilC273]

So @BBCNews @SkyNews @itvnews you actually think you can justify supporting the view that our fresh produce shortages are due to the weather not Brexit when hundreds of photos flood in from round the EU with fully stocked shelves.
This isn’t journalism, it’s Government PR.
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[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

@DanBradshaw_ Thank you! 😊

[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

So happy to say I got the position of Clinical Team Manager! Will be starting in Westminster sometime soon 😁🚑

[Sylvia Egels 🚑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dystopiarcadia]

@UrbanInuk Had the same happen to me today! Waited a couple hours and it seemed to work afterwards, but it was definitely strange! Made me wonder if my account had been hacked, but your explanation makes more sense 🤔