AnotherICUdoc 📟

Imagine being someone who speeds a lot, knowing it can and does kill people… kids, parents, anyone.

Imagine hating a public policy (speed cameras) that’s proven to make those people safer— safer from YOU— because your law breaking costs u money, so you rant that it’s a “cash cow.”

So, is that you?

Toronto hospital housing model ‘a gift’ to residents as ER visits reduced by half Every time Jason Miles walked out of prison, he would be bigger, stronger and meaner.

Toronto hospital housing model ‘a gift’ to residents as ER visits reduced by half

Palestine: Dozens of Palestinians massacred at U.S.-Israel backed food distribution sites | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Dozens of Palestinians killed, hundreds injured while seeking food at Gaza humanitarian assistance distribution sites backed by the U.S. and Israel. MSF teams join the mass casualty response amid repo...

#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres.

Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

Effect of single-entry referral models and team-based care on wait times for hip and knee joint replacement in Ontario: a simulation study Background: Long wait times for scheduled surgery are a major problem in Canadian health systems. We sought to determine the extent to which single-entry referral models (next available consultation),...

What works to ⬇️ 🇨🇦 surgical wait times?

New study from @cmaj.ca reinforces
that publicly funded
✅ single-entry referral models+
✅ team-based care
works

🎁 BONUS-this also improves equitable access

The mountain of evidence **against** private pay options grows.

www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

Reminder: American Board-Certified Doctors Exempt from CFPC/RCPSC Certification | Dialogue - CPSO's Publication for Ontario Doctors

U.S. doctors looking to move to Canada 🇨🇦 - Ontario’s College of Physicians and Surgeons has issued this reminder that additional exams and training not required if you are a board certified physician. Nova Scotia has similar program.
dialogue.cpso.on.ca/articles/rem...

The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.

Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.

Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI

Figure 3. Kaplan-Meier Curves for Probability of Antibiotic Duration and Mortality to 28 Days

Published in JAMA with #CCRdownunder:

In critically ill adults with suspected sepsis, antibiotic regimens were safely reduced when guided by measurement of procalcitonin but not by C-reactive protein. @criticalcarereviews.com

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Disappointed and furious

. @shauryataran addressing a very important topic in Neuro-Critical Care, decisions related to withdrawal of life sustaining therapies #cccf2024. Look for the manuscript in an upcoming issue of @LancetRespirMed

Up next @martin_urner presenting an evaluation of factors influencing the impact of EMCO #cccf2024

Late breaking paper from @hwunsch.bsky.social at #cccf2024 evaluating the association between etomidate and outcomes among critically ill patients. Read the entire paper here www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

Editorial from Dr. Derde @lennie333 highlights that even if the benefit is within one patient group the intervention needs to be unit wide to have impact, decrease the microbial reservoir

Here is his bottom line but there are way more details and so much more to unpack, especially among those with brain injuries. Take the time to explore the entire analysis

.@BrianCuthberts8 kicks off day 2 of #cccf2024 presenting the ecological results of SuDDICU 📟

To cap off an extraordinary session is @khome discussing her trial examining the role of early cycling in ventilated patients #cccf2024 Read the full paper in NEJM Evidence evidence.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Up next @KarenBurnsk exploring the ideal method to assess patients for readiness for extubation #CCCF2024 Read the full paper in @jamacurrent.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

.@fedeangriman helping us understand vasopressor titration in critically ill patients #cccf2024 read the paper now in NEJM Evidence evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....