This is a very interesting finding by my group, thank you for the highlight 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢

🇮🇸 population-based cohort study (2005-2018) found that preop polypharmacy & new postop polypharmacy are associated with adverse outcomes ➡️⚡️highlights the need for⬆️ emphasis on optimizing💊throughout periop period: doi.org/10.1093/bjsope…
#SoMe4Surgery Freyja jónsdóttir BJS Academy

Preoperative polypharmacy and new postoperative polypharmacy/hyper-polypharmacy are common and associated with adverse outcomes. This highlights the need for increased emphasis on optimizing medication usage throughout the perioperative interval.
BJS Open #polypharmacy #surgery

Nice to see our paper is getting attention.

Pre-operative polypharmacy and new post-operative polypharmacy is associated with increased risk of adverse events, highlighting the need for pre- and post-operative #MedicationReview . academic.oup.com/bjsopen/articl…

Thanks for involving us - we look forward to participating Landspítali

Welcome to the ICU in Reykjavik to the GODIF trial. We are looking forward to the collaboration Martin Sigurdsson #CRIC_Int_Care #GODIF #ICU #clinicaltrials

Proud þto be a part of this for the fourth time

“A small portion of surgical patients begin benzodiazepine use perioperatively, but subsequently half fill criteria for persistent use.” Excellent insights from Martin Sigurdsson 🇮🇸 in SURGERY Journal surgjournal.com/article/S0039-…

Is surgery a gateway into new or new persistent use of benzodiazepines? We looked authors.elsevier.com/a/1gZ0j90L~ttVS - congratulations Þorsteinn Albertsson !! Landspítali Háskóli Íslands

Check out the podcast for our recent article in ⁦Anesthesiology⁩ on #SexDifferences in #AKI - collaboration between ⁦⁩ ⁦Duke Anesthesiology⁩ #DukeCCMCAPER ⁦MPOG⁩ ⁦Martin Sigurdsson⁩ ⁦Michael Mathis⁩ ⁦Duke ACES⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ane…

If your takeaway from the INTUBE study was that propofol use is the single biggest predictor of peri-intubation cardiovascular instability, I might encourage you to read this letter by Jay Crowley and I
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Don’t blame the drug - pay attention to the patient

Our paper describing the development & internal validation of a prognostic model for PCR confirmed Covid-19 in adults has now finally been published! This is the paper I am most proud of to date, but appeared too late to be impactful. Some thoughts diagnprognres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Our research letter on Omicron reinfection was just published in JAMA Open Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Announcing that my free text Biostatistics for Biomedical Research has been significantly updated and turned into a 22 chapter reproducible e-book thanks to RStudio 's Quarto : hbiostat.org/bbr #bbrcourse #Statistics #clinicaltrials #RStats Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics Edge for Scholars

PhD supervisors have two moods:

Saving lives, building sustainable teams, and making long lasting friendships and partnerships to improve cardiac care in Rwanda 🇷🇼 is what Team Heart is all about 🫀

This entire week, Team Heart Rwanda will be working with our team in cardiothoracic surgery to treat patients with rheumatic heart disease through surgery.

Currently, Dr. Amy Fiedler, Dr. Maurice Musoni and their teams are conducting a mitral valve replacement surgery🫀

Our large study on the potential health sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection is now out as preprint, from deCODE genetics in Iceland #Covid_19 #LongCovid

Travelling to Rwanda to work with Team Heart developing sustainable cardiac care - Thank you all for your support Team Heart
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