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SOA26 early bird tickets are here!
👉 bit.ly/SOACongress

Join us to celebrate 25 years of intensive care learning, innovation and collaboration.

Set to be a landmark year with opening keynote, Dr Kevin Fong, and Presidents of ICS, @ficm.bsky.social & @esicm.bsky.social.

#SOA26 #ICU #CriticalCare

Left ventricular energetics in patients receiving veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation The haemodynamic effects veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) remain inadequately understood. We investigated invasive left ventricular (LV) haemodynamics in patients who underw...

Similar to what the Minnesota group found, right? www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S030...

This is my exact response to all the really clever papers about patient ventilator dyssynchrony

Really interesting stuff

But either
1. Wake them up
2. Rocuronium

doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

a bald man wearing a black turtleneck and a black suit is looking at the camera . ALT: a bald man wearing a black turtleneck and a black suit is looking at the camera .

Technically it was Levosimendan

But still

You included the increasing questions around LV unloading?

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

Darth Vader reality bio vs LinkedIn bio

I’m impressed you got to 100

I went on LinkedIn.

Oops.

Here is how I converted that experience into billions of sales:

(Blah blah blah etc)

So

The changes to the resident labour market test in 2020 has led to an increase in immigrant doctors working in the NHS, with the ability to compete for jobs on even terms with U.K. graduates

Despite this most of these docs are working as LEDs- doing jobs no one else really wants/can fill

🤔

#Cardiosky 1: “Longitudinal strain” is not the real longitudinal shortening, as it adds the effect of inward tracking.
2: The inward gradient of longitudinal strain is an artefact of feature tracking.

The 8th National Audit Project is officially underway, with the baseline surveys being released this week. Thank you to the more than 500 anaesthetists who have already filled out their individual survey. Encourage everyone else to fill out theirs and contribute to #NAP8!

#EHJCVI 🤔 85-year-old man with acute right leg pain and DVT. No history of AF, ECG in sinus rhythm. TOE demonstrates a highly mobile string-like thrombus in the left atrium / left ventricle (panel B). No PFO on TOE. Follow-up CT shows this (panels C and D): 👀 #MedSky #CVImaging #Echofirst

Trump says that price of beef is down. The receipt from my last trip to the grocery store says it is up. For busy shoppers, it can be hard to know who to trust.

“State” is definitely the word for it.

@rbarbosa91.bsky.social kindly shared this intriguing article at the other place

thejns.org/view/journal...

Reflections on the “Halsted Rounds” of 24 hour on call for 50 weeks a year (yes you read that right)

I have no words, really.

We know the quality of early bereavement support has a lasting effect on mental health, yet there's little training available for GPs - who are in a position to note a death and act to support the bereaved.
Here's expert-led, evidence-based, bite-sized GP training ⬇️
@royalcollegeofgps.bsky.social

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

There is nothing that brings out my right wing tendency as much as the paternalistic way the "fairness" agenda in UK medical training helps it disregard the individuals it is meant to serve.

What fresh NHS HEE nonsense is this

Wonderful

🫀 3D echo is taking center stage in routine #ACHD care ✨ It delivers precise anatomical visualization, accurate LV/RV volumes & EF, en-face valve assessment, and sharper regurgitation quantification. A key tool for planning and procedural guidance 🔍 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ehjc... #MedSky #Echofirst

Them: "You're an ER doc? What's the worst thing you've seen?"
Me: "Racism is killing African-Americans daily."
....
Them: "So no things stuck in the butt, huh?"

OUCH @hauschildt.bsky.social et al !

"Other mechanistic priorities considered highly impactful but less feasible to study were the roles of ... 5) medical devices (e.g., pulse oximeters)"

"Racism remains a fundamental cause of socioeconomic inequality, and thus socioeconomic disparities in critical illness treatment and outcomes will have a consistently disproportionate impact on individuals from minoritized racial and ethnic groups (52–55)...

">2 million people from racially or ethnically minoritized groups are admitted to ICUs in the US each year (1). Compared with White patients, they are more likely to experience delays in antibiotic administration (2), undetected hypoxemia (3–5), incorrect estimation of mortality risk (6,7) ...

Good morning, friends

I'm reading "A Research Agenda to Mitigate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Critical Care Medicine: An Official American Thoracic Society ( @atscommunity.bsky.social ) Research Statement"

www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

Want to read along together?