RAMP 2025 Assessing Para suicide in A&E YouTube video by Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa

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Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or above could not have caused more carnage. Recent floods in Asia and…

Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown

US drug agency approves potent painkiller — the first non-opioid in decades The FDA’s nod for suzetrigine bolsters confidence in the pharmaceutical industry’s strategy to target sodium channels.

The FDA has approved the first new class of non-opioid pain medication in decades. Alternatives to effectively manage pain are desperately needed. This is welcome news.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump Stops Distribution of Life-Saving HIV Drugs PEPFAR, an international program which has long had bipartisan support, was created in 2003 by President George W. Bush.

Trump has paused funding for PEPFAR, the international program for distributing HIV/AIDS medications. He also ordered that those medications already on the shelves not be disbursed. Since its creation in 2003 by President Bush, PEPFAR has saved 26 million lives and prevented millions of infections.

Rising Fentanyl Threat in South Africa - POWER Talk Fentanyl, a potent lab-made opioid painkiller, has recently been detected in South Africa, raising concerns about the potential for a growing drug crisis. This substance, which has been at the center ...

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Skytorial: Five pearls on olanzapine 😁

Between agitation and nausea/vomiting, olanzapine has a wide range of use.

Olanzapine is generally not a front-line agent (e.g., haloperidol or ondansetron often are). But sometimes, it really comes in clutch....

It says a lot about our imagining of the past that in the video game Oregon Trail, you can die of cholera or typhoid or dysentery but not of consumption, even though consumption was the most common cause of death in 19th century America, especially among westward travelers. In this essay I will

Skytorial: Piptazo vs Cefepime 😁

Recently this JAMA-IM paper correlating piptazo with mortality has gained a weird amount of attention

(It's been out for months so it's not really new)

This one of the most methodologically horrific papers I've ever seen

Lets talk real quick about the paper...

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👉Important review on Candida auris Infections!
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Give prophylactic abx post-tube thoracostomy in trauma

Best evidence (2022 SRMA bit.ly/4cHLCpE) shows decreased rates of empyema w/ abx particularly in patients with penetrating trauma

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Are you up-to-date with the latest evidence on airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed cervical spine injury?

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Hello @bsky.app family!

By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky

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A great account to follow for South african and African EM content! #badem
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South Africa needs safe affordable insulin pens- literally life saving meds. Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Sanofi need to step up.

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#25 Diuresis & Negative Fluid Balance — Critical Care Time Diuretics are essential tools used by clinicians to manage volume status in ambulatory patients and in the critically ill… but are we using them correctly? Join Nick & Cyrus as they explore princi...

Thanks to @nickmark.bsky.social and team for the Critical Care Time podcast!

Just listened to the diuresis and fluid balance episode, which I highly recommend—also outside ICU/critical care.

www.criticalcaretime.com/episodes/diu...

Honestly I’m lucky if I have a pen and keys and my phone all simultaneously.

Looking for some anaesthesia/anesthesiology & critical care accounts. Start here.

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Please add me to pack 2! Thanks

Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.

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I use this quote a lot

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Naledi children’s deaths caused by restricted pesticide: ministers Forensic tests have revealed that the six children who died as a result of food poisoning were killed by a highly toxic organophosphate called terbufos.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...