LauraCarrick

Consultant Anaesthetist, lover of dogs, badgers, quilting, classic cars. Passionate about supporting our wildlife. My views are my own.

[Bat Conservation Trust @_BCT_]

The UK needs a Special Representative for Climate Change and Biodiversity - we have added our name to the list of organisations calling for an integrated approach to both the #ClimateCrisis and #biodiversity loss.

[Tim Cook @doctimcook]

I think this is one key point

Anaesthesia Associates currently provide <2% of anaesthesia activity and <0.2% of anaesthesia activity as a main provider

If (with the long term staffing plan) this is expanded 15- to 20-fold (raising numbers from 150 to 2000) the will have a massive impact on overall provision

Involvement in 30% of care

What will this mean for
Trainees’
-access to training

Consultants
-as supervisors
-as clinical providers themselves
-in terms of medicolegal risk

As the model is that AAs care for lower risk patients having low risk surgery will this be practical as patients have become
-older
-more obese
-more comorbid (>30% ASA 3-5)
-frailer
Will it be possible to find suitable patients/lists?

If not what are the implications for
-safety?
-efficiency ?
-cost effectiveness?

The @RCoANews survey on AAs already provides are startling insight into many’s current opinions
https://t.co/KQM8KMpNO1

Much more in the #NAP7 anaesthesia associates paper here
https://t.co/Oe90iVUtmG

[Wild Justice @WildJustice_org]

It looks like Natural England ignored the advice of its own Science Director to go ahead with new badger culls, so as not to upset the farming industry.

So we're starting the process of a legal challenge along with @BadgerTrust

Full details in blog: https://t.co/avrQig2Rea

[Paul Young @DogICUma]

Another practice-changing trial from #CCR24 (although this was my practice already 😀)

[David Steel @SteelySeabirder]

***PUFFIN NUMBERS UP*** the Isle of May Puffin population has increased since our last full census of the population in 2017. The blog has the full story; https://t.co/VnWtRiQI6m

[Critical Care Reviews @CritCareReviews]

The BLING III trialists summarise their presentation from CCR24 this morning

Simultaneously published in @JAMA_current

Trial: https://t.co/RW9h28iaZR
SRMA: https://t.co/JyGkEgC0P2
Editorial: https://t.co/7Kgboa9kAs
Interview: https://t.co/SZGolhnYTZ

[Victoria Cornelius @VR_Cornelius]

A2B trial at #CCR24 - great looking design presented by Chris Weir with Hierarchical analytic framework to overcome challenges for multiple testing in a three arm trial - keeping trials efficient! can explore more here👇

https://t.co/SGuwngMnXf

[Michelle Smyth @smythm86]

Sure where else would you get it?? @CritCareReviews bringing the latest evidence and the dancing to Belfast! #CCR24

[Critical Care Reviews @CritCareReviews]

Glycaemic Control IPDMA has just been published in
@NEJMEvidence
https://t.co/fzgQgdkotc
@georgeinstitute

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Sympathies to all the decent Icelandic people who are as utterly appalled as the rest of the civilised world that @MFAIceland @PresidentISL have granted another licence to murder whales . Beyond words . https://t.co/SkmGGtx00e

[Dr Stephen T Webb @stephen_t_webb]

#BLING3 #CCR24

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

Hurray for #WorldBeeDay! 🐝💛
There are over 270 species of bee in the UK, can you identify them all?https://t.co/KSY7BVCpUz

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Tens of thousands of women and nonbinary people in Iceland are expected to participate in a one-day strike on Tuesday to protest workplace inequality. It would be the largest walkout by women in the Nordic nation since 1975. https://t.co/EGFMEASgVW

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

BREAKING: We are horrified by the recent bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which was treating patients and hosting displaced Gazans.

Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed.

This is a massacre. It is absolutely unacceptable.

[ICRC @ICRC]

International humanitarian law is clear

Civilians - Medical professionals - Hospitals - Ambulances - Clinics

All are protected under the law of war.

[National Trust @nationaltrust]

We are shocked and desperately saddened to learn that the famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall has been felled overnight, in what appears to be an act of vandalism.

We know just how much this iconic tree is loved locally, nationally and by everyone who has visited.

We are working with our partners to understand what has happened and what can be done.

The incident has also been reported to the police.

[Megan McCubbin @MeganMcCubbin]

An update... yesterday these brave women were arrested and sadly the whaling vessels left the harbour to go out and hunt dozens of fin whales. It's so shameful that this continues in 2023.... @MFAIceland #stopwhaling

@MC_org

[Megan McCubbin @MeganMcCubbin]

We need your help to put an end to greyhound racing in Scotland!! 🛑✋

Please sign the petition below to help confine this horrible practice to the history books! Thank you. Pls RT!
@onekindtweet @RSPCA_official @DogsTrust @The_Blue_Cross

#unboundthegreyhound

[Megan McCubbin @MeganMcCubbin]

Where’s this in the news?! Two women have chained themselves to the whaling boats in Reykjavík Harbour after Iceland lifted the whaling ban, approving more killing of fin whales 😟 Whaling must remain a bad stain of the past…. Not part of our present/future #stopwhaling #boycotticeland

@MFAIceland @PresidentISL

[Mo Elriedy @elreedy2000]

If you have missed it, there are still places available. If you are preparing for EDRA part II exam, please join us on the 1st of September https://t.co/nTHl6Ndxch