
Sam Channon-Wells
@sam_channon
Paediatrician who likes to code | Interested in all things Paeds ID | PhD student, Husband & Dad
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25-08-2015 11:00:34
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So excited to be starting my PhD - @AI4HealthCentre Imperial College London. Working with supervisors @jetpackjeth Myrsini Kaforou Aubrey Cunnington and Prof Mauricio Barahona aiming to reclassify febrile illness in children using #AI4Health DIAMONDS. Task 1: Setup my flashy new computer!



Now available - recommendations on AMS for children in hospital - a multinational consensus, several years in the making. We can do better for children. Sanjay Patel Jason Newland ANZPID ASIDANZ UNSW Medicine & Health PIDS ESCMID The Lancet Infectious Diseases authors.elsevier.com/a/1gIOA5E-UoYv…

Just published The Lancet Rheumatology, updated analysis of the Best Available Treatment Study of #MISC, now based on >2000 subjects. Recovery rates, were similar for primary treatment with IVIG when compared to glucocorticoids or IVIG plus glucocorticoids. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…

NEW RESEARCH from the Best Available Treatment Study—Initial treatment for #MISC with glucocorticoids is associated with similar outcomes to treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin or combined therapy, including resolution of coronary artery aneurysms thelancet.com/journals/lanrh… #PIMS-TS #OpenAccess


link.springer.com/article/10.100… This has been a long time in the making. For years, we have tried to define better thresholds for vital signs in children with fever at risk for serious bacterial infection. Most paediatric vital sign based triage and score systems still underwhelming. 1/

Andrew Pollard nails it again: The UK's NHS has transformed healthcare by training clinical research leaders, but they must have protected time to deliver. This cannot be achieved while doctors and nurses are drowning in a chronically understaffed system. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thanks to Ariane Duverdier from @AI4HealthCentre for a fascinating talk at the Joint UKRI AI CDTs in Healthcare Conference in #York! AI helping to predict eczema severity. Clever application of #AI to solve very common problem for patients. Great work! #eczema UK Research and Innovation


Children face specific risks from antimicrobial resistance, yet UK policy has failed to recognise them as a distinct group, say Sam Channon-Wells and Sanjay Patel bmj.com/content/381/bm… ADC


Joint call to action from UK-PAS and UKHSA—time to collect vital data in the fight against antimicrobial resistance: doi.org/10.1093/jac/dk… @aliciad3 Sanjay Patel Sam Channon-Wells Orlagh Simon Drysdale OUP Medicine Oxford Journals #JACNews

Great that the risk of antimicrobial resistance in children is being taken seriously by RCPCH . Sam Channon-Wells and Orlagh chairing uk pas workshop at #RCPCH24 sharing good practice to improve paeds AMS @aliciad3 Jason Newland Alasdair Munro Brendan McMullan BSAC


Excited to be Science Museum for announcement of the Longitude Prize on ALS on AMR! Well done to the revolutionary PA-100 system from Sysmex Astrego - potential game changer in UTI diagnosis and treatment. Hopefully will serve adults and children alike in the fight against #AMR! #AMS

