@PBuzzacott
 Perth, Western Australia
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Wanted, an Australian or New Zealand citizen or resident to undertake a PhD researching nitrogen narcosis in divers. Interested potential candidates please lodge an expression-of-interest here: scholarships.curtin.edu.au/S…

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Two weeks left to apply to get a PhD here at Curtin University, researching nitrogen narcosis in divers...
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Latest research now out in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. This is by far the largest ever survey of active scuba divers, costing the CDC millions of dollars over nine years, (note, they surveyed more than divers). Enjoy! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3531…

Health and wellbeing of recently active United States scuba divers - PubMed

The results demonstrate a relatively healthy cohort of active scuba divers, confirming previous survey results that active divers are commonly college-educated, unmarried, without children, home...

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Congratulations @CurtinHIVE summer intern, Yasmine Mnahy, on creating two safety cards for Helping Developing-World Diving Harvesters Avoid the Bends - A Humanitarian Project, with PRECRU Senior Research Fellow, Peter Buzzacott @PBuzzacott
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Latest paper published today, highlighting the difficulty researchers have identifying ambulance attended patients who fell: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Machine learning and natural language processing to identify falls in electronic patient care...

We derived machine learning models utilizing features generated by natural language processing (NLP) of free-text data from an ambulance services provider to identify fall cases. The data comprised...

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Latest paper published here. It appears high calcium bodes well for dogs starting a particular chemotherapy regime. doi.org/10.1111/vco.12768
A scholarship at Curtin University, Western Australia, researching ambulance attendances for injuries or health events associated with aquatic actvities, announced today: scholarships.curtin.edu.au/S…

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Paige, one of our PhD students, and I accepting a (runner-up) award on behalf of PRECRU for "Outstanding Achievement in Influencing Injury Policy or Practice", at the 2021 Injury Matters awards, Perth, Western Australia. @PRECRU #PRECRU @InjuryMatters
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Latest research published today, on Nullarbor cave water. Somethings going out in the desert, warm water here and there. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Dolphins still doing it tough, though I'm not convinced it is just the exposure to oil that was harmful. Check out this article about the effects of dispersants: link.springer.com/article/10… sciencealert.com/decades-aft…
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Latest paper: Effect of antiplatelet and/or anticoagulation medication on the risk of tympanic barotrauma… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3332…

Effect of antiplatelet and/or anticoagulation medication on the risk of tympanic barotrauma in...

In this retrospective single-centre study, antiplatelet and/or anticoagulation drugs did not affect the risk of MEBt, but both age and sex did, with greater prevalence of MEBt among older patients...

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Technical Note: Recovery of deceased scuba divers from within flooded subterranean caves ift.tt/2naSBh4
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Rock-climbing’s 11-year-old stars hit bump ahead of sport’s Olympic moment thestar.com/sports/amateur/2… via @torontostar

Rock-climbing’s 11-year-old stars hit bump ahead of sport’s Olympic moment

U.S. and Canadian commercial climbing spots grew almost 9 per cent in 2019 from a year prior, but now young climbers will have to wait a little longer for elite competition.

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Rock-climbing's 11-year-old stars hit bump at sport's moment of glory sentinelsource.com/sports/na… via @keene_sentinel
Early days, but some new promising results towards a pharmacological treatment for decompression sickness: frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

Frontiers | Ulinastatin: A Potential Alternative to Glucocorticoid in the Treatment of Severe...

Inflammatory reaction is the crux in various clinical critical diseases including decompression sickness (DCS). Ulinastatin (UTI), a potent anti-inflammatory...

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Just discovered our abstract "Epidemiology of population mortality related to falls in california 2000–2016" has been downloaded over 1,500 times bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/Su… @PRECRU

10 Epidemiology of population mortality related to falls in california 2000–2016: an increasing...

Background Falls mortality increases with age and the U.S. population is aging steadily. This study examined the epidemiology of mortality in California this century due to unintentional falls....

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For any of my Wilderness EMS pals, this is a great deal!
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CYBER MONDAY SALE: _Wilderness EMS_ 1 only $70 (40% off) Mon-Tue! Act quickly to get this award-winning wilderness medicine & EMS textbook. Great for readers of all levels, from first aid to professional caregivers! @lippincott @Wolters_Kluwer #WEMSText hawkventures.com/product/wil…

Wilderness EMS 1e (2018)

Wilderness EMS is designed for EMS providers and leaders who deliver medical care in the wilderness, and those practicing wilderness medicine as part of a formal team. The textbook is a comprehensi...

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Very nice runner up trophy for best abstract, at #EMS2019 Great event, let's hope I can make it to Scotland next year.
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