David Fitzpatrick

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Pain (Part 3) - Systems issues and special circumstances Clinical Conversations · Episode

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The final episode in our pain management series with @expensivecare.bsky.social and @billlord.bsky.social is now live.

🔥 Topics:
Pain care performance measures 📊
Chronic pain challenges
Opioid myths & realities 💊

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"It's okay to not be okay."

Taking time to be at your best will make you a better physician/paramedic, and if you're suffering with substance use, PTSD, and burnout as an EMS clinician--you're not alone.

Dr. Amanda Ventura at #NAEMSP2025 presents a powerful talk on alcohol in medicine. #EMSsky

This 👆 for so many reasons!! Thank you for articulating this so well🙏

“Rookie factor”: why healthcare workforce policy needs to embrace experience What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark differ...

My latest @bmj.com on why an experienced workforce is necessary for safety and productivity www.bmj.com/content/387/...

The Crieff Mountains are looking fine this afternoon 😍

I was on nights covering an area in lanarkshire where one of Scotlands largest ever indoor raves was being held. Responded to many calls on that night, none at the rave! And all gadgets continued working after midnight 🤣. Simpler times too which I miss 🫶🏼😞

Chart showing millions of lives saved globally due to select vaccinations.

The number of deaths averted globally due to vaccination is absolutely staggering.

Well, thats phase 2 of the hydration study started. For any @scotambservice.bsky.social staff in Tayside, Forth Valley and Fife please consider participating. Details in your NHS emails and links to questionnaire on station posters. Thank you 🙏

Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach Evaluative tools for qualitative research need to be developed and designed in a way that allows them to be used by the research community to assess qualitative research on its own terms, and thus ...

Full article: Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach #QualMethods #ResearchMethods www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Predictors of care home resident conveyance to hospital or referral to community pathways by a regional ambulance service attending medical emergencies: a retrospective cross sectional study - Scandin... Background Care home residents are at higher risk compared with community dwelling elders for medical emergencies, often resulting in ambulance attendance and conveyance to hospital. We aimed to deter...

Latest research article:

Predictors of care home resident conveyance to hospital or referral to community pathways by a regional ambulance service attending medical emergencies: a retrospective cross sectional study

sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

For those interested in paramedic research, check out this great starter pack by @gregwhitley.bsky.social
Simple, easy and one tap. I’m sure you’ll recognise some names!

#paramedic #paramedicine #emt #medic #research #paramedicineresearch

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New protections for whistleblowers under NHS manager proposals NHS managers who silence whistleblowers could be barred from working in the NHS, under proposals being announced this week.

NHS managers who silence whistleblowers could be barred from working in the NHS, under proposals being announced this week www.gov.uk/government/n...

Emergency medical service interventions and experiences during pandemics: A scoping review: despite concern for own and families’ safety and lack of knowledge, training, PPE and protocol changes, EMS staff reported for duty #PHEM #MedSky #AcademicSky
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

No false negative paradox in STEMI-NSTEMI diagnosis ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) diagnosis is based on a clinical presentation and ST-segment elevation (STE) in at least two consecutive leads. Despite being deeply rooted in both t...

shortcomings of the STEMI NSTEMI paradigm, resulting patient harm, and why we need to add on the 'OMI paradigm' which i will post next
#CardioSky #EmImCc #12lead #ekg #STEMI #pci #OMI
heart.bmj.com/content/110/...

I’ll just need to find all my past X friends

I’ll need to get used to this one and figure it out!

Nice to see you again Tom!! 😊

Is this a friendlier and more supportive platform than ‘X’ then?

Well, here I am ‘bluesky’….lets see if you are an improvement on ‘X’!!