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@ellenleroux

A critical care nurse. Passionate about critical care nursing and patient safety, interests in infection prevention and control, and nursing education.

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Prof Jane Ball (FRCN)💙 (@janeeball) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The problems: 1. Blame culture 2. System needs over-ride staff well-being 3. Unintended personal costs of upholding values at work 4. Interventions don’t recognise cumulative chronic stressors 5. It is hard to design, identify & implement interventions. qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/…

Sam Ghali, M.D. (@em_resus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here's a video I made breaking down this very important case of a 40-year-old woman who presented to the ER with abdominal pain that feels like "bad menstrual cramps" #FOAMed

Yolanda Walsh (@yolandawalsh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Critical care nurses experience non-invasive ventilation during #BasicforNurses under the expert tutelage of cheska de leon. That's one surefire way of enhancing empathy!

Critical care nurses experience non-invasive ventilation during #BasicforNurses under the expert tutelage of <a href="/bespen/">cheska de leon</a>. That's one surefire way of enhancing empathy!
Paul Wischmeyer MD (@paul_wischmeyer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

South African Doctor Prof 'Mashudu Tshifularo' became the first Surgeon on Earth to successfully perform surgery to cure deafness. Hats off, please! ❤️

South African Doctor Prof 'Mashudu Tshifularo'  became the first Surgeon on Earth to successfully perform surgery to cure deafness.

Hats off, please! ❤️
CritCareSA (@crit_sa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

CCSSA welcomes 9 new intensivists! Congratulations on passing the recent Cert Critical Care (SA) examination: Nicole Fernandes Darren Fox Bojan Korda Yaw Kusi-Mensah Matema Mosola Panayotes Parris Tiffany Pratt Mapule Rammego Umathevan Vinasithamby We wish you well! #CCSSA

CCSSA welcomes 9 new intensivists!
Congratulations on passing the recent Cert Critical Care (SA) examination:
Nicole Fernandes
Darren Fox
Bojan Korda
Yaw Kusi-Mensah
Matema Mosola
Panayotes Parris
Tiffany Pratt
Mapule  Rammego
Umathevan Vinasithamby

We wish you well!

#CCSSA
Paul Wischmeyer MD (@paul_wischmeyer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🙋‍♂️This video shows a modified Valsalva maneuver being used in the emergency treatment of stable SVT 🫀(supraventricular tachycardia)! Learn more👇 This awesome ER team was able to temporarily convert a stable paroxysmal SVT back into sinus rhythm! This is a beautiful example of

Brenda Morrow (@brendam1611) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Juan Scribante presenting an important talk on the implications of the new nursing scope of practice for the critical care nurse. CritCareSA #CCSSA2024

Juan Scribante presenting an important talk on the implications of the new nursing scope of practice for the critical care nurse. <a href="/crit_sa/">CritCareSA</a> #CCSSA2024
Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social (@chrischirp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

Yolanda Walsh (@yolandawalsh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Planning for the Haemodynamic Monitoring for Critical Care Nurse workshop taking place on 22 November as part of the Western Cape Branch CCSSA Update meeting (22-24 November at the UCT Academic Conference Centre). A workshop that includes intra-abdominal pressure monitoring! The Abdominal Compartment Society (WSACS)

Planning for the Haemodynamic Monitoring for Critical Care Nurse workshop taking place on 22 November as part of the <a href="/WCccssa/">Western Cape Branch CCSSA</a> Update meeting (22-24 November at the UCT Academic Conference Centre). A workshop that includes intra-abdominal pressure monitoring! <a href="/WSACS/">The Abdominal Compartment Society (WSACS)</a>
IMCrit (@im_crit_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nice article about the medicalisation of dying "Death is increasingly seen as a failure, rather than a natural stage of life" #medtwitter

Nice article about the medicalisation of dying

"Death is increasingly seen as a failure, rather than a natural stage of life"

#medtwitter
iDelirium (@idelirium_aware) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧠🌍 Today is World Delirium Awareness Day! 🌍🧠 Delirium is serious, often preventable, and too often overlooked. Early recognition and management can change lives. Join us in raising awareness! #WDAD2025 🔗 Learn more: deliriumday.com

🧠🌍 Today is World Delirium Awareness Day! 🌍🧠

Delirium is serious, often preventable, and too often overlooked. Early recognition and management can change lives.

Join us in raising awareness! #WDAD2025 

🔗 Learn more: deliriumday.com