Recognition of cardiac arrest is the first step to helping. It's difficult when you're startled, and this work finds important differences in CPR rates for women in public places. If anyone collapses, has noisy breathing or no breathing, start CPR. ambulance.nsw.gov.au/goodsam

ICU Hepatology Update:

If you feel a bit queasy - I feel the same! - whenever you admit a patient with cirrhosis/acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), you will find useful this excellent document from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD):

Today in 'things I did not know'
This is an astonishing difference.

Episode 8 with Dr Fionna Moore is now available to stream free on Spotify! #medtwitter

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London Ambulance Service South East Coast Ambulance Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex Out of Hospital CPD 💙

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The best types of tea:

-The tea brought to you in bed on a Sunday morning
-The tea that comforts you after bad news, gives you the energy to carry on
-The leaning on the worktop after cleaning the kitchen tea (usually held in two hands)
-The “struggle to take a glove off as…

Still time to apply for these studentships...

Had a dip & signed our nearest Defibrillator up to the NSW Ambulance GoodSAM registry. Anyone guess where?

If you’re willing to do 10 minutes of Chest Compressions for your neighbour or have a defib nearby, head to ambulance.nsw.gov.au/goodsam

CPR is easy, safe & anyone can do it

An app is being rolled out across New South Wales, empowering people to save lives. 'Good-SAM' is now connected to the state's triple-zero system, sending volunteers an alert when someone nearby goes into cardiac arrest. @_madison_scott #9News

Take-away tip from SA Burns Congress 2023.

Dr Ahrens (Paediatric Intensivist Red Cross) - beware the child with a small covered burn wound whom presents with diarrhea and irritability. Toxic Shock Syndrome kills if missed!

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Still believe in the balloons. We share some thoughts about the recent UK-REBOA Trial
Marius Rehn

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This is such a great thread.

Mine is pneumothorax - two Tesco carrier bags, one inside the other and smoothed from the inside. Pull the outer one out, and the inner one comes with. But make a hole in the inner one, air gets inbetween and they don’t move together any more.

How cricket was invented 😂!! Cricket World Cup is on 🏏😬 #cricket #ICCCricketWorldCup

Millennial doctors, if you want to understand your consultants you should watch this.

(Gen Z, you probably shouldn’t, you’ll start wearing white coats as a retro statement)

PSA!! BBC Four showing Cardiac Arrest from Wed 20th September at 22-00!!

To cheer everyone up, a bit of crocodile physiology. Just to freak everyone out they have two aortas that join together in two different places and a cog teeth valve that is actively controlled to allow shunting

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Delighted to present our paper on molecular phenotypes in sepsis The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. We observed previously described molecular phenotypes: Hyper/Hypo in 2 sepsis ICU cohorts (even after excluding ARDS pts) and HTE with activated protein C
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