Shawn Lee

Doctor with an interest in critical care and public (health) policy. † AU 🇦🇺 | Singapore 🇸🇬

[Jan Hansel @VirtueOfNothing]

@NicholasChrimes @AirwayMxAcademy @doctimcook I agree with Nick here. I made this slide recently to demonstrate what he successfully summarised with an expletive and an adjective.

POGO has absolutely no discriminating ability at the challenging end of the spectrum. It wastes 95% of a 100-point scale on 'easy'.

[Shawn Lee @shawnleecl]

Untimely article; and that number continues to march higher. Look after yourselves and your colleagues, friends. 🙁

"It's an enormous privilege to do this work; however, it shouldn't cost you your life in order to perform it,"

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[Shawn Lee @shawnleecl]

Finally met @GongGasGirl today when she went “Oh my gosh it’s Shawn from the Twitter!” 🤣 Should’ve gotten a photo to mirror the one I got with @maffygirl but t’was a busy day.

[Theatre Caps @TheatreCaps]

A 20 theatre hospital will discard approximately 100,000 single use surgical hats every year

Single use hats are made from Viscose - manufactured from hardwood tree pulp. The process and chemicals used create significant environmental waste.

https://t.co/zDheFaOpjG

[James May @MrJamesMay]

I’m heading to Australia later today. Anything I should know?

[Shawn Lee @shawnleecl]

@GongGasGirl @Rick_Pescatore Certainly not an answer, but would be a useful adjunct - I imagine ambient solutions may help us spend more time focussing on actively listening to patients rather than wrangling eMR, arranging orders etc. That's fundamentally what differentiates us as humans - communication!

[British Journal of Anaesthesia @BJAJournals]

Is #perioperative AKI caused by #hypotension despite #norepinephrine therapy, or by norepinephrine itself?

#https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(25)00224-7/fulltext

[Ashley Miller @icmteaching]

1/
Most people think the heart drives circulation.
But what if that’s backwards?
Anderson’s model flips the whole idea of cardiac output on its head — and it changes how you think about fluid, flow, and failure.
🧵👇
#physiology #FOAMed #MedTwitter #criticalCare #cardiacOutput

[𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 @Anaes_Journal]

How do women perceive the consent process for epidural analgesia during induction of labour?

#anaesthesia #MedTwitter #obstetrics

https://t.co/wUjRlw3P5x

[Rhea Liang @LiangRhea]

THIS is how it's done. 👏👏👏
#TheStandardWeWalkPast
#SpeakUp

https://t.co/EZMXzZBIXF

[Shawn Lee @shawnleecl]

Separately - feedback says that I need work in appearing more confident in my answers during interviews - been practicing. Anyone has interview coaches or performance psychologists in AU to recommend? Which of the two is more useful? Am already aware of frameworks eg SPIES, STAR

[Shawn Lee @shawnleecl]

Interesting chat with mates from SG. How do training programs handle the trade offs between selecting for service provision (bearing in mind a training program should train) vs non-technical skills which are harder to train? #MedEd

[BOA @BritOrthopaedic]

BOA response to The Times (1st May, 2025) article suggesting orthopaedic surgery is primarily suited to men due to the physical nature of the work: “outdated and derogatory.”
BOA President Mark Bowditch: “Skill, judgement and teamwork—not gender—define a good surgeon.”
Read it here: https://t.co/rqDJpY7yhL
#WomenInSurgery #OrthoEquality

[Dr Vyom Sharma @drvyom]

I hope one day I'll find someone who believes in me like James McGrath believes in pre-polls.

[Shawn Lee @shawnleecl]

@yiehl I mean as they used to, and still do, teach - it’s reduce first, before reusing and recycling… Source (or demand) management is important!

[ABC News @abcnews]

#BREAKING: NSW Health doctors will take part in a three-day strike next week to protest unsustainable workloads and chronic understaffing. https://t.co/mM4OgmQr5s

[Shawn Lee @shawnleecl]

Sometimes the best intervention is... presence. Sat with a patient navigating deep trauma this week. 20 minutes of just listening on the pain round. Her physical pain presentation faded. Reminded of the power of human connection and why we do what we do :)

[British Journal of Anaesthesia @BJAJournals]

Premedication with intranasal #dexmedetomidine could reduce post-operative pain & increased short term satisfaction in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty #premed #pain #analgesia #arthroplasty #TKR #openaccess #freeaccess

https://t.co/sxYpGPWOTN

[Shawn Lee @shawnleecl]

Spent the week off visiting a friend (and now trauma patient) in the 'gong and caught up with a few folks at TWH. Chuffed I got to spend time with the folks that made it home! Sadly still can't convince @drbruceashford to switch to BSky though.

[Clístenes Carvalho @clistenes_cc]

Hot off the press in @Anaes_Journal! All VL designs outperform DLs in efficacy, safety, and quality. Channelled VLs rank highest for most outcomes. HAVLs & channelled VLs offer better views than Mac-VLs.
#airway #anaesthesia

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