‘Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness’: Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Information is spread everywhere, especially online and there are different strategies to achieve the same end result.

However, a practical, easy to read and widely disseminated book covering these topics written by a collaborative group could be the next step!

Are you a surgical researcher looking to start a debate around surgical research, practice, or policy?

You're in luck!

Impact Surgery is a new community-focussed journal that prioritises diverse thought leadership for a global audience.

Issue 2 online: impact-surgery.org/index.php/pub

Amazing to see the first issue out! 💥

RIFT-2 paper with key messages that support change in practice (UK focused)

Addressing controversies while accepting different perspectives will make this new journal unique in research!

🔥Impact Surgery issue 2 launches today🧵

📌Appendicitis themed

Impact Surgery (impact-surgery.org) is our new online platform/journal, that aims to support an active community which can:

-take on controversial and deeper dives into research topics
-allow faster, easier…

Prof Dion Morton invites you join the EAGLE Study 2 snapshot audit to validate the finding of the EAGLE 1 trial.

Find our more in this video:  zoom.us/clips/share/y0…

Sign up here: redcap.link/EAGLE2

🔥Shining a light on electricity and surgery🔥

📌This might be the most powerful image of surgery you'll see

👉Electricity is vital for surgery, vaccines, and maternity care, but on average 6 out of 30 days in a Global South hospital are lost to power outages.
👉Bringing clean…

📌5 takeaway messages on elective surgery from the new NHS-E 2024/25 Priorities Guidance

england.nhs.uk/publication/pr…

I’ve focussed on the bits I think are likely to help patients, work, and can happen quickly. 🧵:

1. New patient - elective clinics
“Increase the proportion of all…

✨*Greener Surgery is important for all communities*

👉I discuss in the Times today how we're changing behaviours in operating theatres in the NHS and beyond as part of our NIHR Programme Grant on Environmentally Sustainable Surgery (reusable drapes and gowns, better anaesthetic…

💡Worth to read the paper & protocol to learn and apply in future surgical trials 💡

> fast transition to implementation
> bundle / complex intervention testing
> process evaluation
> collaborative research

Full text:
nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…

Elizabeth Li Michael Bahrami-Hessari James Glasbey 🇪🇺 leading the session on public perspectives on energy strategies.

Should the community be involved in the development of energy schemes for hospital?

An excellent opportunity!

Happy to provide feedback from my PhD experience so far (2y).

The learning goes way beyond research and is 100% worth it!

PhD life in a high performance surgical research unit:

Love at first bite: how Britain fell for a little Portuguese custard tart theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/…

We need to value diverse medical careers - none of it is 'nice to have'. If we are serious about achieving the aims in my 1st tweet, we need clinicians, clinician-scientists, clinician-educators, clinician-managers, clinician-policy makers, etc. ALL of them are important. 7/9

Some good reflection shared by Dmitri Nepogodiev on how change can happen RE publication and review process

Worth to read 👇

From all the threads by Aneel Bhangu, this is the longest but the most complete too.

Very good reading material for the weekend 🤓

Global Surgery in a nutshell is impossible to summarise more than this!
No bias as authors have been removed 👏🆒

When there are many research resources for free available, this one is definitely worth checking!

> Data management
> Design and statistics of a study
> Health economics

Great work form GSU Education Centre in gathering and making available for free this set of resources 👏

While the nr of patients with CV disease is increasing, what is the impact when they need to undergo major abdominal surgery?

Data to answer this question in this paper with key points summarised in this thread!

Congratulations EuroSurg Students, STARSurg and Sivesh K Kamarajah!