What are the risk factors for post-operative complications in children having an appendicectomy?

➡️ethnicity (independent of socio-economic status)
➡️ASA ≥ 3
➡️raised CRP
➡️pyrexia
➡️peri-operative oxygen supplementation

Amaki S Ramani

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NHS England is rolling back its mental health support for NHS hospital staff. No new patients will be accepted....given the parlous state of services and how some staff can be broken by their work this seems a backwards step.

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Many thanks to everyone involved in this substantial project evaluating national variation in adult anaesthetic records.

Chris Thompson; Sharon Drake; lorraine foley; Tim Cook

🔓This novel model showed substantially superior performance over generic and specific prediction models and scores.

Should we be predicting major morbidity rather than mortality?

Dr Matt Duncan Wagstaff James Bedford Ramani PQIP

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Perhaps not to sit with my other recipe books, I got my paper copy of the college QI 'recipe book' today 😍. 410 pages, 136 recipes, over 200 authors! 🐘The more eco friendly version is here rcoa.ac.uk/safety-standar…

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We've launched the ‘Little Journey’ app, to support children in hospital.

The app includes virtual tours of the Children’s Unit, guidance about surgical procedures and interactive games for children that can be played whilst having a canula fitted.

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Out tomorrow- well today probably by now. All RTs vv much appreciated. 🙏🙏

Dead in a month

Ever wondered why us docs use this frightening but unlikely outcome to make decisions - with you and for you - for major surgery??

A super-brief overview

🔓The ability to accurately predict complications, rather than death, will enable more effective preparation for surgery, responsive prevention and informed shared decision-making.

Dr Matt Duncan Wagstaff James Bedford Ramani PQIP

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🔓'One of the biggest risk factors associated with postoperative complications was black or ‘other’ minority ethnicity, with a four-fold increase in the odds of developing complications...'

Amaki S Ramani #OpenAccess

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When was the last time you checked out the GIRFT data on Model Health System?
We’ve added no fewer than 4⃣ new compartments lately, meaning we now have 1,000s of metrics available in 2⃣2⃣ specialties
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The @rcoanews HSRC and POMCTN have merged to form the RCoA Centre for Research and Improvement! Take a look at rcoa.ac.uk/research/resea… for more info and remember our twitter handle is now RCoA Centre for Research & Improvement :)

Launching next week, Opioids & Surgery is a massive open online course designed to support you in the safe management of opioids for patients undergoing surgery.

🌍 For a global & multidisciplinary audience
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Still some time left to apply for one of our 3 PhD studentships!

If you are an anaesthetic trainee with an interest in education, are post FRCA and keen to undertake an OOPE with us, here at UCH, we would love to hear from you...

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