Jo-anne Casey

👏 The Wait is over
🚀 The 'ERC 2025 Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation Guidelines' is Released.
🫀 Click the link to know more
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#ERC #CPR #Guidelines2025 #ERCGuidelines #savelives #RESUS25

Dr Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge, Chemist and Physiologist Phyllis Kerridge was a pioneering chemist and physiologist whose research laid the foundation for the creation of standardised hearing aids.

Phyllis Kerridge was a pioneering chemist and physiologist whose research laid the foundation for the creation of standardised hearing aids. She is also known for her invention of the miniature pH electrode and her work on artificial respiration.
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If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth.

From Saturn.

We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

Japan Develops Universal Artificial Blood — This Changes Everything Japan may have just cracked the code on one of medicine’s toughest problems—universal blood. Researchers have developed synthetic blood that works across all blood types, can be stored as powder, and ...

Artificial blood has been a holy grail of medicine. This will be a vast and potent change to medicine if it is proven successful in further trials.

I hope volunteers and donors will continue to march to needs in the meantime, and afterwards.

engineerine.com/japans-unive...

#MedSky #ScienceSky

Yes please.

Origami Ballet - Agnes Obel - "The Curse"

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

YouTube video by InterAnest Ultrasound guided pericardiocentesis

A short version of our pericadiocentesis drain film. youtube.com/shorts/oFfIT...

Hundreds of Thousands Will Die The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

Hundreds of Thousands Will Die

The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world

www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

Really applaud @kityates.bsky.social for his principled bold & honourable stand on science here and echo disappointment that Royal Society are not standing up for scientists as well as members of public being targeted and bullied directly by Musk via X and DOGE

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

Timeline cleanse of stunning award winning marine photography 🧪

‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness

We need facts as never before.

3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.

Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.

Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

Had a conversation today about the difference between "kindness" & "niceness" in leadership so decided to post about it. The article & graphic explain why, as leaders, we should choose kindness over niceness:
lnkd.in/e6FfD8eQ. By Emmanuel Barrera.
Graphic: @justin-mecham.bsky.social via Dan Grimes

a pink background with butterflies and the words " you 're not alone " on it Alt: a pink background with butterflies and the words " you 're not alone " on it

It’s rubbish when it happens. If they are not intoxicated or delirious it can be really nasty.

Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap.

Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month.

Insulin costs $2 to make.

Both forearms showed a linear depression in the skin parallel to the course of the superficial veins, more obvious on raising the arm, which was consistent with the “groove sign” (Figures A–B, arrows). The “groove sign” was also observed on the thighs (Figure C, arrow). MRI of the lower limbs showed enhancement of superficial (D, asterisk) and deep (D, arrow) fasciitis.

A 71-year-old woman presented with a 5-month history of progressively worsening painful skin tightening and swelling of her extremities. Physical exam revealed bilateral edema in the forearms and legs, with erythema and skin induration
#Medsky

Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group British arm of Heartland, which has taken fossil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry

Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group

Climate science deniers are lining up a political offensive in Britain after a US lobby group opened a UK branch which is already working with Nigel Farage

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Maternal and neonatal outcomes following resuscitative hysterotomy for out of hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review To examine maternal and neonatal outcomes following Resuscitative Hysterotomy for out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and to compare with timing fro…

⭐️Just published⭐️

Maternal and neonatal outcomes following resuscitative hysterotomy for out of hospital
cardiac arrest: A systematic review

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK EM friends… I have just taken on the role of POCUS lead for my new ED. Anyone out there with same role willing to have a virtual (MS teams) coffee and give me some tips? I’d be hugely grateful. Keen to do the job well and sustainably (and love POCUS of course). @rcem.bsky.social

Originally found thanks to @libbynugent.bsky.social

Running at least 5km in scrubs every day in 2024 for Doctors in Distress 🏃‍♂️🏥🩺 Help Ed H raise money to support Doctors in Distress

Dr Ed Hutchinson ran in scrubs every day in 2024 to raise money for @doctorsindistress.bsky.social

He still short of his £10K target - can you help?

Donate here:

www.justgiving.com/page/ed-hutc...

Happy new year everyone. You’re all great, in some way. Each one of you has a weirdness - a superpower if you want to see it that way - that no-one else has. There’s no perfect, archetypal human. A species is the sum of its parts. And yet, as just one human, you are: special.

President #JimmyCarter died today at age 100, having lived w/ #melanoma that had spread to his brain & liver for >9y. I grew up in GA admiring him, so as an oncologist, I’d like to honor his life by teaching a bit. #melsm #MedSky #OncSky #MedEd

First, the ⚠️ signs (ABCDE 👇) & some examples:

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Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit covid-19 within minutes - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit covid-19 within minutes

Translation: we sat on this for a year before deciding to mention it during the holidays when no one will notice. 🇸🇪🤡

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows

“Thames Water intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs including bonuses and dividends.”
I almost wrote ‘unbelievable’, but this is only too believable.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/23/revealed-thames-water-diverted-cash-for…

a cartoon of donald duck with the words " do you want to fight lets get it on then " ALT: a cartoon of donald duck with the words " do you want to fight lets get it on then "

Skytorial: pH management in DKA!

I've been following debates about this for a *long* time

(eg wrote this blog in 2016, which stands up pretty darn well: emcrit.org/pulmcrit/bic...)

after years of arguing, lemme break down my take on this 😁