Benjamin Thomas

Dexmedetomidine versus Midazolam for End-of-Life Sedation: The DREAMS Non-Blinded Randomized Clinical Trial End-of-life distress and delirium are common in palliative care inpatients, often requiring sedatives that diminish interaction. Current practices rely on clinical experience rather than evidence.

Our RCT into dexmedetomidine versus midazolam for proportional sedation at EOL is now online at JPSM! If you were at @eapcvzw.bsky.social last year you might have seen the interim results. Paper is finally done! Hope you enjoy :)
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No thank you for your generosity and the wonder to brought to the thing we love. Hopefully it's not goodbye forever - please tell Rafe from a book reader since the early 90s, he made a beautiful thing and he should be proud <3

Thank you, Australia.

Enjoyed this one a lot. Cheers Alastair and Rory.

Thanks Rick, as a NSW public specialist, appreciate your take and your words. Very well put together.

Would be interested!

If our experience is anything to go by- the boards don't tend to say no

I watched it twice in Australia!

Read our latest issue in full ➡️ tinyurl.com/2rz7b357

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1/ Day 16 of Pharmacy Advent: Let’s talk hyponatremia—seeing it more frequently in ED. Why is hypokalemia risk factor for Na overcorrection & risk of ODS? We’ll briefly review recent SRMA on slow vs fast Na correction too. Here we go, let’s dive in!👇 #medsky #pharmsky #EMsky #HMsky #nursesky #emimcc

Private doctors offered 'crisis rates' amid NSW psychiatrists exodus With almost 200 of the 295 psychiatrists working across the NSW's public health sector set to leave due to pay disputes, the state's government has offered temporary, high-paid contracts for private workers to fill the gaps.

Private doctors offered 'crisis rates' amid NSW psychiatrists exodus: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-23/private-doctors-crisis-rates-nsw-public-psychiatrists/104758242

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Canada’s #MAiD program may be at the extreme end of the #assisteddying slippery slope, but this article in the @bmj.com is exactly why some of us are so fearful of the Bill currently going through parliament. #disability

Any chance of us foreigners being able to pay shipping to get the zine? Looks too good to miss

That said, super nice to be feeling close to the finish line for this one.

Nice to be up to the point in a manuscript where supervisor/co-authors have provided significant feedback and are happy and look forward to a polished version in a few weeks... which is lovely, except for future me who gets to hit "accept changes" and wield the axe! #phd #pallmed #dexmedetomidine

This paper re palliation in advanced heart failure caught my eye. In particular, table 6 summarises the potential symptom benefits both of continuing and of stopping (4th column) each class of heart failure medicine

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@pippab.bsky.social hi Pip :)

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Another one I've use subcut is cefepime, with good clinical response albeit no testing data.

So I might give this place a proper crack now so many #hpm folks are moving over to #MedSky. Hello all :)