Matt Wilkes

Anaesthetist, PhD student at Extreme Environment Laboratory, Wilderness Medic. Love Scotland and flying in the high, wild places.

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

@KnitBikeNom @threefromleith @bmj_latest Not quite on paper, but if you message me your email I’d be happy to send you both. Cheers, Matt

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

@will_s_t Thanks Will! I'd give all the credit to you, and I've already had people saying they've printed it for the breakroom wall.

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

@NrsNeedsCoffee @keeeeeeeeelz @bmj_latest @will_s_t I agree that everyone is different - we spend quite a lot of the main article talking about that in fact, and how it makes research in this area tricky. The idea was to provide a toolkit that people could adapt to their own needs. Good luck!

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

Fascinating. https://t.co/FZnp3qB9Vh

[Aerospace Medicine @AeroMedicine]

Before looking into anesthesia delivery in #deepspace, we might focus on resuscitation, life support and monitoring skills. But this @nature review is good for starters.
https://t.co/yfGZvcKbFr

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

Delighted our sleep strategies article will be on the cover of @bmj_latest tomorrow. Hopefully people will be able to use some of the ideas to make their own shift work a little easier. https://t.co/9wSeqBkwl6

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

A suggested sleep strategy covering before, during, and after night shifts #BMJInfographic @will_s_t https://t.co/w4ra3nT45h

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

@DrHelenHare Thanks pal!

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

@keeeeeeeeelz @NrsNeedsCoffee @bmj_latest @will_s_t Ha! I'm one of the people who did this chart. Have done 5 years as an auxiliary nurse/HCA, ten years as a doc in EM, anaesthesia & ICU. Done a few night shifts... :) Just because the system isn't set up for the welfare of staff, it doesn't mean we can't try to make it better...?

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

@DrAliceWood @EllisMarianne @bmj_latest @will_s_t Hello - I'm Matt, one of the authors, that is exactly the idea behind pre-nap caffeine. While the evidence behind napping is far from perfect, perhaps there should be a serious discussion about building naps into night shifts?

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

@CarolineDrewe1 @bmj_latest @will_s_t Well, maybe they should be! @theRCN

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

@RichardWiseman Night School was the first book I read when I began finding #nightshifts really miserable. It inspired me to try a whole bunch of #sleep strategies, making work much more bearable, and finally inspired this article, out today: https://t.co/Ku7MamjSu4 Thanks Prof!

[Matt Wilkes @MattWFly]

Struggling with #nightshift? Us too. The fantastic Helen McKenna and I have tried to summarise ways to make #shiftwork and #sleep easier as individuals in this week's @bmj_latest: https://t.co/Ku7MamjSu4.

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