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Gasman who dislikes Gas, Intensivist trying to simplify the messy, developing human still looking for the ‘Grown-Ups’ but nearing acceptance we’re all just winging it in a crazy world…

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Wonder if many of these were 20-30mg for positioning #nofs?

07.07.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting - wonder about the median dose used as threshold (0.35mg/kg) seems v low. 16yr period and varied surgical population makes external validity hard to asess for own practice - for me 0.5-0.75 would be ‘low dose’ for post op analgesia, >1mg/kg for sick inductions.

07.07.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That was brill Kevin, 2 calm capable operators. Great stories and views from Cmdr Hadfield with positivity and cooperation from North America to the Soviet Union ‘Merry Creestmas’ 😉

26.06.2025 15:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Welcome Helgi 🤗

19.05.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t you be flaming the McGrath! We love em round our place 🥰 Just don’t be stupid enough to put one in an autoclave….

19.04.2025 08:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

But but but….. its 100 times more potent than MORPHINE!!!!!!!!!!

18.03.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Interesting, though quality low, magnitude effect of salbutamol bigger than insulin, both better, and dose of insulin makes little difference. Putting iv salb in ur insulin/dextrose then makes great sense. I’d though the insulin was main treatment & salbutamol an add on-guess not, another school day

18.03.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve used and liked it in past for colorectal. RCOA statement and related editorial killed it for me. Still believed in it’s utility but that any complications v difficult to defend in that context so stopped for my own sake rather than being convinced of -ve risk/benefit argument for patients

25.02.2025 06:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

For subclavian - yes i am 👍

21.02.2025 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I appear to have missed the ‘ahem…discussion’ - interested though, this is a skill i have dabbled at but certainly nit confident with - signpost anyone??

21.02.2025 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of petition  to join EU as full member.

Screenshot of petition to join EU as full member.

🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures!

Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!

Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

10.02.2025 20:09 — 👍 1260    🔁 723    💬 69    📌 44

Can i add close doors?

10.02.2025 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😉

08.02.2025 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only 20?? Lightweight!…..

08.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Obvs if we can change the system to make it generally less shit that will make everyone working in it happer. We all have a responsibility to help-‘lead, follow or get out of the way’ ie don’t be a wingeing pain in ur bosses ass,identify problem & solutions and present together. Be a team player etc

17.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It is a real problem, personal experience, but having engaged medical leaders is also essential for the service and the profession - so how do we make being a medical leader better or more attractive?

17.01.2025 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If it wouldn’t be missed it’ll die without being ‘shut down.’ Shutting it down would be infinately more trouble. Massive money buys real power. Had modtlh shifted to this place but finally deleted the bird app few days back after his latest ‘shit urself in public’ rant

03.01.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Once chewed & swallowed i’d suggest they could no longer be considered nachos…so no 😑

Perhaps too nerdy for most 11yr olds but maybe not for the progeny of Prof Roberts 😉

18.12.2024 11:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And Keira Knightly…. 😮‍💨

18.12.2024 09:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just not a baby…..

Lactase persistence became a selected for human trait after domestication of cattle

26.11.2024 20:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Meh…. tbh 🤷‍♂️ I like prefilled for emergency drugs, not so motivated for ‘routine’ drugs like roc. If cost/co2 neutral maybe…. Re size depends on practise, i may draw up 10mls vs 5mls roughly 1:1, not infrequently a 20ml syringe required for 1-1.2mg/kg abw, multiple prefill sizes seems extra wasteful

25.11.2024 04:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Transverse or oblique in-plane, if done pre-op i tunnel out further laterally using an 18G cannula to stay out of operators field. IMMB pump 30mls 4-6hrly (using y connector to deliver dose between 2catheters using 1 pump) Most often done post op in icu before waking pt up d1 post Emerg Laparotomy

19.11.2024 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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