Past president, the Intensive Care Society; Professor of critical care, Leeds; Chair SHOT UK; MEP pilot and AME; proud father and grandfather. All views my own.
Leeds, England
Joined December 2015
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Great news. But we desperately need to roll out a tweaked vaccine to take account of new variants. SA variant is here and real. #selectionpressure #backtosquare1
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RECOVERY Result for Tocilizumab
For patients with COVID-19, hypoxia & inflammation:
- reduces mortality
- shortens time to hospital discharge
- reduces the need for invasive mechanical ventilation
Good news for patients. Good news for the health services that look after them
Critical care has long been a Cinderella specialty. During this pandemic, she has arrived at the ball in a golden coach pulled by a team of white horses. But what will happen at midnight?
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"Everybody coming into the country from anywhere in the world should be tested and subject to quarantine in a hotel."
Sir Keir Starmer accuses Boris Johnson of "delay in securing our borders", but the PM says "tougher measures" will be introduced to combat new Covid variants.
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e-Days–#ECMO: Registrations for the virtual 1-day symposium on ECMO are now open. All aspects of VV- and VA-ECMO from basic physiology to practical issues such as #cannulation, #anticoagulation, complications and use in #COVID19 will be covered. For more bit.ly/39fLn6x
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Today's webinar on High Flow Nasal Oxygen & Swallowing is now on our YouTube channel:
youtu.be/52ciZVDhNCU
Thank you to our fantastic speakers @PaulTwose and @MsAnnaLiisaSutt
@RCSLT @RCSLTLearn @RCSLTTracheCEN @TheACPRC @CriticalCareSLT
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This leak exposes the truth about the Government's priorities, which are way out of step with the needs of workers and their families. In the midst of the worst economic crisis in three centuries, ministers are preparing to take a sledgehammer to workers’ rights. (1/3)
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Pleased that there has been so much interest in @ICS_updates statement about correctly reporting % ICU bed occupancy relative to baseline.
For a more complete picture of hospital pressures we now need to also report % NIV beds occupied outside of ICU relative to baseline 1/2
Our latest statement on #intensivecare staffing, bed occupancy & capacity to support those reporting ICU data across the UK.
It also provides the media with a better understanding of what the data means to help make their reports on ICU beds clearer.
👉bit.ly/ICSBedCapacity
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“We don’t want to be in this situation next winter.”
Prof Devi Sridhar says “we still don’t know” how effective the Covid vaccine is against new variants of the virus - and warns the UK could face another lockdown as a result.
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Can't help either, but Hypertension seems a big risk factor - silent, 50% of people with it don't know they have it - and very common.
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Yes - love to see this! #FluidRestriction #IVfluid #sepsis #resuscitation #RCT showing it can be safely tested. And would love to see this as a #SCCMDiscovery network project. @SCCM @vishkkumar
@criticalbeansmd
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>100,000 tracheostomies; ~7.5% prevalence in the U.S.
Globally: 13-20 million patients intubated, 5.7 million in the U.S.
Agree with @rachaelmoses - The #ICU is a great place for #SLTs / #SLPeeps to do #ICUrehab!! Let’s start early #rehabilitation TOGETHER! #ICSSOA2018
#ICU tracheostomised patients suffer:
🔹swallow downregulation
🔹airway desensitisation
🔹laryngopharyngeal weakness
🔹vocal cord immobility
🔹asyncrony of glottic closure
🔹reflux
10-15% all U.K. pts have trachies
So why hasn’t EVERY SINGLE ICU got dedicated #SLTs
#ICSSOA2018
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Pleased to present our quality improvement project #LPEDS We are grateful to the ICS for helping to fund this QI project. #ICSSOA2018 @emimichou @profmcbellamy @ltht_slt @lthtresearch @LeedsHospitals @SiRileyFuller99
