👏 The Wait is over
🚀 The 'ERC 2025 Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation Guidelines' is Released.
🫀 Click the link to know more
👉 www.erc.edu/news/2025-er...
#ERC #CPR #Guidelines2025 #ERCGuidelines #savelives #RESUS25
Phyllis Kerridge was a pioneering chemist and physiologist whose research laid the foundation for the creation of standardised hearing aids. She is also known for her invention of the miniature pH electrode and her work on artificial respiration.
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If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth.
From Saturn.
We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.
Artificial blood has been a holy grail of medicine. This will be a vast and potent change to medicine if it is proven successful in further trials.
I hope volunteers and donors will continue to march to needs in the meantime, and afterwards.
engineerine.com/japans-unive...
#MedSky #ScienceSky
Yes please.
Origami Ballet - Agnes Obel - "The Curse"
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
A short version of our pericadiocentesis drain film. youtube.com/shorts/oFfIT...
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world
www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
Really applaud @kityates.bsky.social for his principled bold & honourable stand on science here and echo disappointment that Royal Society are not standing up for scientists as well as members of public being targeted and bullied directly by Musk via X and DOGE
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need facts as never before.
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...
Had a conversation today about the difference between "kindness" & "niceness" in leadership so decided to post about it. The article & graphic explain why, as leaders, we should choose kindness over niceness:
lnkd.in/e6FfD8eQ. By Emmanuel Barrera.
Graphic: @justin-mecham.bsky.social via Dan Grimes
Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap.
Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month.
Insulin costs $2 to make.
Both forearms showed a linear depression in the skin parallel to the course of the superficial veins, more obvious on raising the arm, which was consistent with the “groove sign” (Figures A–B, arrows). The “groove sign” was also observed on the thighs (Figure C, arrow). MRI of the lower limbs showed enhancement of superficial (D, asterisk) and deep (D, arrow) fasciitis.
A 71-year-old woman presented with a 5-month history of progressively worsening painful skin tightening and swelling of her extremities. Physical exam revealed bilateral edema in the forearms and legs, with erythema and skin induration
#Medsky
Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group
Climate science deniers are lining up a political offensive in Britain after a US lobby group opened a UK branch which is already working with Nigel Farage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
⭐️Just published⭐️
Maternal and neonatal outcomes following resuscitative hysterotomy for out of hospital
cardiac arrest: A systematic review
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
UK EM friends… I have just taken on the role of POCUS lead for my new ED. Anyone out there with same role willing to have a virtual (MS teams) coffee and give me some tips? I’d be hugely grateful. Keen to do the job well and sustainably (and love POCUS of course). @rcem.bsky.social
Originally found thanks to @libbynugent.bsky.social
Dr Ed Hutchinson ran in scrubs every day in 2024 to raise money for @doctorsindistress.bsky.social
He still short of his £10K target - can you help?
Donate here:
www.justgiving.com/page/ed-hutc...
Happy new year everyone. You’re all great, in some way. Each one of you has a weirdness - a superpower if you want to see it that way - that no-one else has. There’s no perfect, archetypal human. A species is the sum of its parts. And yet, as just one human, you are: special.
President #JimmyCarter died today at age 100, having lived w/ #melanoma that had spread to his brain & liver for >9y. I grew up in GA admiring him, so as an oncologist, I’d like to honor his life by teaching a bit. #melsm #MedSky #OncSky #MedEd
First, the ⚠️ signs (ABCDE 👇) & some examples:
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“Thames Water intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs including bonuses and dividends.”
I almost wrote ‘unbelievable’, but this is only too believable.
www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/23/rev...
