Radiology @OUHospitals | @cirsesociety AI subcommittee | Cohort 5 Clinical AI Fellow | a fan of #rstats #python gadgets & gizmos | Aspiring human-plumber #IRad
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Ashar Asif retweeted
Milestone unlocked! 🔓 The KID Trial data is officially ready for analysis. Thank you to all the incredible NHS teams for resolving the final queries. We're 1 step closer to presenting our findings. Stay tuned! 📊👀 @a_saratzis @angiodroid @NHSuk
Ashar Asif retweeted
What are the concerning features with postop free air?
Trend (increasing), localization (besides abnormal GI wall), clinical picture (peritonitis, sepsis), volume + duration (>20 mL after POD 7)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2745…
Ashar Asif retweeted
🚨 TODAY’S OBSERVER: IMPROVE ACCESS TO STROKE TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION — OR FACE A £19 BILLION ANNUAL BILL!
Today’s Observer article highlights an urgent national challenge: improving access to life-saving stroke treatment and rehabilitation is not just a clinical priority — it is an economic necessity.
The Stroke Association warns that annual long-term stroke care costs could exceed £19 BILLION over the next decade.
Yet access to mechanical thrombectomy, one of the most effective treatments for severe ischaemic stroke, remains deeply unequal.
🔴 Scotland: Only 1.9% of stroke patients received thrombectomy.
🔴 England, Wales and Northern Ireland: Just 4.7% received thrombectomy, despite an estimated 10–15% being eligible.
🔴 Geographical inequalities: Several centres still operate restricted hours, leaving patients without consistent access to this life-changing treatment.
We urgently need dedicated national funding across the entire stroke pathway:
✅ Expand 24/7 thrombectomy services and specialist workforce training.
✅ Improve rapid access to advanced CT angiography, CT perfusion and AI-assisted imaging.
✅ Strengthen early identification, referral and selection of eligible patients at referring stroke centres.
✅ Invest in dedicated, rapid inter-hospital ambulance transfers and coordinated regional stroke networks.
✅ Ensure timely, comprehensive rehabilitation and long-term recovery support.
Investment today can prevent lifelong disability, preserve independence and reduce the enormous economic burden of stroke.
The question is no longer whether we can afford to invest in stroke care — but whether we can afford NOT to.
Strokes don’t wait for Monday. Neither should treatment.
💬 What more can we do to accelerate equitable access to stroke treatment and rehabilitation across the UK? I welcome suggestions from clinicians, NHS leaders, policymakers and stroke survivors.
📰 Today’s Observer article:
observer.co.uk/news/national…
#Stroke #MechanicalThrombectomy #StrokeRehabilitation #NHS #StrokeCare #HealthcareFunding #HealthInequalities
Day 2 at #BSIR2026 with @CircFoundation!
Generous support allows the CF to continue supporting PAD patients and their loved ones.
Huge thanks to @cordis for their generousity!
#SavingLimbsAndLives #AreYourLegsKillingYou #PAD #PeripheralArteryDisease
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Ashar Asif retweeted
What to do if you see someone having a seizure.
Witnessing a seizure can feel overwhelming, but calm actions can provide safety and reassurance. Follow these 6 steps to help.
ℹ️ Find more advice nhs.uk/symptoms/what-to-do-i…
ALT NHS guidance on what to do if an adult has a seizure, highlighting six essential tips to follow.
ALT Illustration showing to time a seizure and only move the person if in immediate danger like near traffic or hot surfaces.
ALT Illustration showing how to cushion a person's head on the ground during a medical emergency, and also loosen any tight clothing.
ALT Person placing another in recovery position after a seizure, with advice to stay calm and talk until they recover, NHS guidance.
Ashar Asif retweeted
🫀 Don't overlook the heart on routine chest CT!
In this #JTI pictorial essay, Yoo et al highlight uncommon but critical cardiac abnormalities + CT features.
🩻 Acute MI, intracardiac thrombus, endocarditis, chordal rupture, RV lead perforation & more!
🔗 to article in reply!
Ashar Asif retweeted
Take-aways:
For referrers: read the radiology report.
For radiologists: close that loop if you think the incidental finding is significant (judgment applies to what that means).
For more on the duty to effectively communicate, see my @AJR_Radiology podcast episode with @JonathanMezrich:
Transcript and references: ajronline.org/doi/full/10.22…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/28i…
Publications score resume/CV points, this is the result of that sadly; publication is now just a superficial box ticking exercise. With ⬇️ barriers to research, well thought out, multicentre/collab, impactful research should be more accessible - yet we see the opposite!
As an Editor, in past ~6mo, we are receiving an avalanche of unsolicited review articles (“scoping” “systematic”, narrative, NOS) on topics and ?s NO ONE EVER has asked and clearly with heavy AI lift. Even the cover letters all read the same…alarming and sad. #publishing
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High bar to publish,outputs held gravitas➡️tech made academia accessible➡️huge volume of outputs
➡️peer review based on good-will unable to keep up➡️📉quality ➡️publishing becomes ubiquitous➡️publishing practically mandatory to progress➡️everything goes down🚽
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This is key; engaging w AI != AI has produced. How often do we send drafts to colleagues to review, and click "accept changes" on their grammar suggestions! Main thing is that the paper's core is your own intellectual exercise, not AI taking the lead. Hats off to @JACCJournals
We don't ask whether a model touched their prose. We ask authors to own every word.
@JACCJournals parted w/ICMJE & doesn't require disclosure of AI writing help: the rule is unenforceable, biased, & not good for medical communication.
My Editor's Page: jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.…
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Basic literacy and numeracy skills get you from a paper's intro➡️conclusion, but behind every number and every statement, there's an intricate mechanism that generates them. The knack is whether the appropriate mechanisms were used, and the leaps made weren't too outlandish
The internet gave everyone access to scientific papers.
Unfortunately, it didn’t give everyone the training to understand them.
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Does being an investigator on a non-randomised, open-label study make you ineligible to enroll as a participant in that same study? On the flipside, does being an investigator make you ineligible to be a participant?
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Given the week of huge #AorticDissection events lined up and that it's #AorticDissectionAwarenessMonth, I thought it'd be timely to share our paper on the use of AI to detect #AD on CT scans. Huge potential, but a long way to go and a key area of research
#AortaEd
Delighted to share our meta analysis in @RadiologyCTI of AI models diagnosing+classifying aortic dissection (AD) from CT imaging pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ry…
Big thanks to @ragsxray for supervising
@AorticDissectUK @AorticDissectCT @THINK__AORTA @ThinkAorta
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