Are you sitting on Twitter wondering why doctors are on one hand complaining about being understaffed & simultaneously incandescent with rage about mushrooming non-doctor roles? 🧵 for you.
There is a special place in hell for the anaesthetist that manages the airway of a patient with highly suspected difficult airway…and documents nothing.
There are few professional behaviours amongst my colleagues that piss me off, but this is certainly one of them.
This whole piece is worth a minute of your time, but the Robert F Kennedy quote I hadn't heard before and is quite stop-you-in-your tracks obvious when stated this way.
https://t.co/Jt3Zxg3zmT
With hyper-angulated VL we are taught things like the Kovsc’s Sign* or the 50/50 rule**.
w/ HAVL visualization of cords is rarely the issue, rather it’s tube delivery.
Simply, the worse your view, the more success you should find with tube delivery.
But why…?
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@oli_m_sims@ErringtonAaron Thank you! This is such a bug bear of mine.
If the lungs have not worked yet: 3:1
If the lungs have worked but stopped: 15:2
I hate being reminded that some people have a complete disregard for truth and must be driven by their own dark motives that I’m not sure I want to understand. Also that they are allowed to wield power.
Här, liksom i andra fall, är det påtagligt hur lobbying för fossila bränslen sammanfaller med lobbying för diktaturer och kleptokrater. Kommer dömas hårt av framtiden, om det finns en framtid. https://t.co/xvh1dNhNG1
@Dirtyswabby @geofall@SuperfluousD@NC5PhilWilliams When we do triage we need to be clear and communicate that vacc/non-vacc is definitely important, but as one of many factors in comparing probability of outcomes.
“United also had the ability to edit and suggest changes to the paper’s drafts, and executives were kept up to date on the researchers’ goals and progress, the emails show.”
Academics and journalists are the best lobbyists because they seem unbiased.
Not all BVMs are reliable in their delivery of high concentration oxygen. This study should be a wake up call to many services to demand reliable equipment to be able to care for the critically ill and injured. #FOAMed
I’m a boring bloke obsessed by patient safety, rotas and statistics. No one unvaccinated will listen to me.
So please, can some cool people retweet this.
“Getting a Covid vaccine is so much safer than catching COVID.
And If u go clubbing u will sooner or later catch Covid”
@GongGasGirl Dr Brytney Cobia: “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.” https://t.co/hAMfCihqA9