SankarK

Consultant anaesthetist 🇬🇧 special interest in Regional anaesthesia, and Sedation #pocus #ultrasound #regionalanaesthesia #sedation #ophthalmicanaesthesia

[Mohnish Pabrai @MohnishPabrai]

The 2024 @DakshanaIndia Annual Report is out!

https://t.co/oJHOeTeOrH

In my letter, I mentioned one of our scholars, Ms. Muskan Soni, starting on Page 4. Here is an excerpt:

The state of Madhya Pradesh (MP) has run a small magnet school program known as Super 100 since 2019.

One of the two scholars we accepted in 2024 from the MP Super 100 is Ms. Muskan Soni from Mirgauti village, which is in a remote and desolate corner of the state. Muskan did well enough as a Dakshana Scholar to get a government medical college seat.

In 2017, when Muskan was 10 years old, her father was paralyzed on the right side of his body as a side effect of undiagnosed high blood pressure, diabetes and a lack of proper medical facilities in their village. He lost his ability to provide for his family.

The family was left in dire straits with no income and seven mouths to feed. Muskan’s mother had an old sewing machine and taught sewing to Muskan’s two older sisters. The sisters supplemented these basic tailoring skills with countless hours of watching tailoring videos on YouTube. Both became expert tailors and started offering custom tailoring services in the village. Their uncle bought them a 2nd sewing machine so both sisters could work at the same time. The girls have been able to increase their earnings every year, but it is still only a trickle. The family somehow survives on the less than $2 a day that the girls are able to earn. During the wedding season, this increases to about $4 a day.

The girls have been able to fix both sewing machines themselves whenever they have issues. This too they learnt from watching YouTube videos. Long live YouTube!

Tailoring needs math skills and an above average IQ. Dakshana’s smartest scholar ever is Ashok Kumar Talapatra. Ashok was ranked 63 (out of over a million kids) in the IIT entrance exam and works for Google in Switzerland. Ashok’s father is also a tailor and Ashok is a math whiz. Muskan and her sisters are smart because the parents are smart. However, only Muskan has been able to break through and will become a doctor in a few years. She is the hope of the entire family and has the drive and tenacity to get everyone to the promised land.

The word Muskan means smile. When I recently saw pictures of Muskan and her sisters, what struck me most was the Mona Lisa-like smile each of them had. Beautiful half smiles that masked some of their struggles. In a few years, their daily battles to survive will be over and I look forward to seeing their full, unrestained smiles.

You can help transform the lives of many more Muskans by supporting Dakshana: https://t.co/mB35Q8ZdHI

[Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw @kiranshaw]

Wow! Innovation for Bengaluru’s home produced wet garbage

[Vidya @VidyaG88]

4/8
Don't get CARRIED AWAY by these Screenshots & Self proclaimed EXPERTS on Twitter who run paid subscription giving 5 FUNDAMENTALLY strong stock names EVERYDAY !

Yes they ARE making lot of money.
But NOT from markets .
They are MINTING money off you ! 🤦

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

You cannot have a British government saying illegal foreign immigrants are the first legal priority over tax paying British people - this is an insane position to hold & expect the support of your people. As a government you are now officially working against the electorate

[Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ @amit_pawa]

We are delighted to announce that @BlockIt_Hot_Pod #BILIH #BlockItLikeItsHot now has a website!

https://t.co/Zmi1oRG1C2

Please give it a visit!

You can keep up to date with all that wr are doing, the latest episodes, videos, links to our socials, plus you can subscribe too!

[Balavenkat Subramanian @BalavenkatSubr1]

Happy to see the phenomenal and focused evolution of superspeciality Anaesthesia services in India.
This would enhance patient outcomes for our Onco patients.
Truly delighted to be a part of this Academic meet

[Jeff Gadsden @jeffgadsden]

This is alarming but not at all surprising...we need to STOP using lidocaine as an IV agent for pain. Why?? 1) It sucks. It's NOT a good analgesic compared to other therapies 2) It's dangerous 👇👇 If you're going to use local anesthetics (and you should be!!), put them where they work best: next to nerves/plexi, not IV. Thank you @mfettiplace @lipidguy and team for highlighting this. @RAPMOnline @ASRA_Society @DaraEsra @ESRA_Society @EMARIANOMD @EM_RESUS @amit_pawa @BlockIt_Hot_Pod @AoraIndia

[Vidya @VidyaG88]

Currently reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's White Nights.

Looking for book recommendations for my next read.

Loved the book Tiny Experiments before this.

P.S- Any genré will do :)

#BookRecommendation

[Hans Huitink @AirwayMxAcademy]

Common pitfalls in airway management

📌I can intubate all my patients with VL
📌I am experienced (but do you have expertise?)
📌Incomplete airway assessment (only looking at anatomical factors)
📌Incomplete airway strategy (no transition points defined)
📌Intubating without muscle relaxants
📌Incomplete pre-oxygenation
📌Awake intubation indicated but not done
📌Underestimation of risk of high BMI
📌Call4help not done in time
📌Never practised EFONA
📌SGA used but tube was indicated
📌No peri-oxygenation technique used

#airwaytriage #patientsafety #meded

[Balavenkat Subramanian @BalavenkatSubr1]

World Congress of Anaesthesia (WCA 2026)
📍 Marrakesh, Morocco
�� 16–19 April 2026
✅ Registrations OPEN!
Join the largest global network of Anaesthesiologists.
Welcome to #WCA2026 🌍
– Dr. J Balavenkatasubramanian, Secretary WFSA

https://t.co/GLvB6U5cUi$

[Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine @RAPMOnline]

📣 ⚠️ FIRST-EVER guideline on Infection Control for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Is it the end of controversies? Why don't you find out!

Read this work led by Dr. David Provenzano here: https://t.co/u1fIBhvBlT
Infographic here: https://t.co/QYgom2gepy

[Kavita Houthoff Khemlani @HouthoffKavita]

“Ours is not a drive for power, but purely a nonviolent fight for India's independence.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Happy Independence Day India 🇮🇳

[Vidya @VidyaG88]

1/12

Seeing way too many folks advocating
teaching "finance" & "compounding" over "lifeskills" to kids.

Stating it is a must to survive as adults.

I hail from a financially literate family &
here is why this is a bad thought process to implement.

An honest 🧵

[Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ @amit_pawa]

So 3 new videos released today!

1. Femoral Triangle & AFCN

https://t.co/Tpv37noY2V

2. Medial approach to IPACK

https://t.co/6M29hqRhF6

3. Serratus Plane

https://t.co/qPvScB2IPm

Please Enjoy, Like & Subscribe!

#RegionalAnaesthesia #RegionalAnesthesia

[MadanKumar Narayanan @MadanNarayanan]

Back full circle. ITM is a godsend in resource limited scenarios.

[SankarK @Shankaru72]

@SNCFVoyageurs can I travel earlier train if the booked train is delayed?

[MadanKumar Narayanan @MadanNarayanan]

Large data set with close to 1.5million patients, quite hard to ignore the results. #RapidsequenceSpinals

[Siva Arumugam, MD, FASA @Siva6faces]

Shame on you @benstokes38 and his mates for their behavior on the field yesterday. Moral posturing even hours after the heat of the moment showed their hypocrisy with “spirit of the game” #INDvsENG
Raj days are gone, we don’t have to say YES to you
@BCCI @englandcricket

[Nabil Elkassabany MD MBA MSCE @nelkassabany]

Did the pendulum swing too far with the claim for "opioid free anesthesia". Opioid sparing interventions are very reasonable and should be endorsed whenever possible. Opioids are not the villain, it is how they are used @ASRA_Society @ASALifeline
https://t.co/XYCJlF2M8I

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Yes, @benstokes38 is a great player but a sore loser! Why should Indian batsmen accept a draw when they are just short of milestone tons? Would England have not batted on in a similar situation? Sorry Mr Stokes, this isn’t an Indian team that will bend so easily! The Raj is long gone! Jai Ho🙏🇮🇳