Lorna Murphy

Sunday Highlight Read 📚

What does ICU delirium actually feel like for patients?

Meta-synthesis of 9 qualitative studies exploring ICU patients’ memories, perceptions and coping during delirium.

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#ICUdelirium @baccnuk.bsky.social

Can a tracheostomy care bundle improve ICU nursing practice? 🫁

Tracheostomy care is common in ICU and complications remain a key patient safety concern.

This Quasi-experimental study evaluate’s a tracheostomy nursing care bundle.

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#CriticalCare @baccnuk.bsky.social

Constant threats and backlash undermine women's rights around the globe, but women still continue to fight against repression.

This International Women's Day, we honor the courage of those working to improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay

🔔Our next webinar🔔
 
Drs Sarah White and Hannah Richards have developed resources for their local department on supporting children facing bereavement in the adult ICU.
 
Join us to hear about this wonderful work with space for discussion. Link will be in our free member’s area www.epcin.uk.

🚨New podcast alert

CPR: when does it save a life & when does it spoil a death?

Listen in to hear Dani & I share commonly held myths & misconceptions & share valuable resource.

🎧https://speakforme.co.uk/podcast-episode-153

@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social #DNACPR #AdvanceCarePlanning #PEoLC #EoLC

Well done this is fantastic news

Fantastic news

This might be the most incredible road safety video you'll ever see.

Every critical care area is different, so it’s important that patients and their loved ones understand each step of the process.
Visit the SICS website for information on how to help offer support throughout ➡️ www.scottishintensiv...
#IntensiveCare #IntensiveCareSociety

We will never forget how nursing staff and their patients were failed by those at the highest levels of government during the pandemic.

This report must mark a turning point in how health emergencies are responded to and how the voice of nursing must never be ignored again. #CovidInquiry

Boris Johnson's lack of leadership blamed for 23,000 Covid deaths A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald and the then minister Matt Hancock

Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

COME ON SCOTLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽️

Scotland is in the World Cup for the first time since 1998 after a historic 4-2 win against Denmark 🏆

A flyer advertising the To Absent Friends 2025 event listings. The To Absent Friends logo with a tree is at the top left corner, and the background photo is of an open diary showing a calendar grid.

This year's To Absent Friends (1-7 November) activities include beach bonfires, remembrance cafes, live music, and more. Find out what's happening near you and online by checking our #toabsentfriends listings:

www.toabsentfriends.org.uk/blogs/festiv...

The 2025 Resuscitation Guidelines emphasise the importance of correct defibrillator pad placement - a simple step that gives someone in cardiac arrest the best chance of survival.

🎥 Watch the video to learn more
🔗 Read the full Guidelines at resus.org.uk/2025-guidelines

Breast cancer symptoms, early diagnosis of cancer generally increases the chances of successful treatment. Nipple changes, bloody discharge, lump in the breast, change in breast colour, pitting of the breast skin, breast or nipple pain.

Symptoms of #BreastCancer can include:
A breast lump or thickening, often without pain
Change in size, shape or appearance of the breast
Dimpling, redness, pitting or other changes in the skin
Change in nipple appearance
Abnormal or bloody fluid from the nipple

100% agree with this

We're Breast Cancer Now We’re here to change the lives of people affected by breast cancer. How? By combining the power of research and support.

breastcancernow.org
October is breast cancer awareness month 🩷 If you don’t already check your breasts then now is a really good time to start

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Let’s make breast cancer history (breast cancer is striked out in the creative)

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

#BreastCancer is the most common cancer among women globally and represents approximately a quarter of all cancers that occur in women every year.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Let's get this to 2 million!
Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions share.google/yrbJu69IDd3s...

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Empty room for Netanyahu

Have you made your organ and tissue donation decision known? Don’t leave your loved ones in doubt.

Find out more at www.organdonation.scot

#LeaveNoDoubt

Help shape the future of intensive care research Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

Were you in ICU, or are you a relative of someone who was? If so, the Intensive Care Society wants to hear from you, the patients and families, about your experiences of ICU, in order to identify their top research priorities. Take part here: bit.ly/JLAPSP-ICU

Me today…

'In Scotland I can pursue medicine dreams the Taliban took away' Omulbanin Sultani was among a group of Afghan medical students able to continue their studies in Scotland after the Taliban seized control of the country.

"I hope there comes a day in Afghanistan when women can do whatever they want."

It's a year since we helped bring 19 female Afghan medical students to Scotland to continue their studies.

Omulbanin Sultani reflects on her life before and since then: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🛌 Preventing ICU-Acquired Weakness

This umbrella review of seven systematic reviews found that starting rehabilitation within 1–3 days of ICU admission was associated with a 13% lower risk of ICU-acquired weakness.

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@baccnuk.bsky.social

We are pleased to share new guidance on “The Decision Making and Transfer of Critically Ill Adults to Their Preferred Place of Death” – providing a framework to help healthcare teams navigate one of the most sensitive and important decisions in end-of-life care.

Can the swimmer position for the upper limbs during prone ventilation lead to brachial plexus injury in ICU patients with ARDS?

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#NICCJournal #CriticalCareNursing #ProneVentilation #ARDS #BrachialPlexusInjury #SwimmerPosition #ICUResearch @baccnuk.bsky.social

If a nurse wrote down your story while you were unconscious in the ICU... would you want to read it?

Explore how nurse-written diaries are changing lives, one entry at a time.
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#SundayReflections #ICUDiaries #PatientRecovery @baccnuk.bsky.social

‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies

There is no justification on earth for blocking deliveries of baby formula to starving babies and mothers.

What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...