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📢FREE WEBINAR Management of haematoma after thyroid surgery: Difficult Airway Society (DAS) British Association of Endocrine&Thyroid Surgeons ENT UK joint webinar 🗓️25th November 18:00 🎫Register via Royal College of Anaesthetists 👉rcoa.ac.uk/events/managem… 🔓Guidelines in 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an… #DASGuidelines #patientsafety

Life after critical illness guide by FICM 👍 ficm.ac.uk/news-events-ed…

Absolutely fantastic course NorthwickNEO! Great opportunity to learn, pick up tips and tricks and stay up to date. Thank you @R_S_Chaggar Sneh Shah Natalie Silvey - silv24.bsky.social for organizing and of course all the teachers on the course!

Our fabulous colleague Elisa is standing for election for the Royal College of Anaesthetists Council! Do vote for her for a progressive and sustainable future of our speciality!

🔐Insertion and removal of a supraglottic airway generates no more aerosol than breathing. Their peri-operative use should no longer be classified as an ‘aerosol-generating procedure’. Andy Shrimpton Jules Brown Tim Cook Gus Hamilton Tony 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

🔐Different introducers are available to assist with tracheal intubation. This laboratory assessment of 6 devices found first-time success rate depended on the introducer used and varied from 47% (Armstrong and P3) to 77% (Intersurgical and Frova). 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Manuscript is out in JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… #BOUGIE

🔐Prehabilitation and preparation for surgery: has the digital revolution arrived? @durrand_james, john moore and Gerard Danjoux call for rapidly scalable solutions that can support patients facing extended waits for surgery. #FreeForAWeek 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

The latest results from the PHOSP-COVID study study have shown that people who have Long-COVID show limited further recovery one year after being discharged from hospital. Guy's and St Thomas' patients were among those taking part in the study. Find out more: bit.ly/PHOSP-results

Meanwhile in London…

The anesthesiologist goes to therapy

Association between frailty and clinical outcomes in surgical patients admitted to intensive care units: a systematic review and meta-analysis British Journal of Anaesthesia bit.ly/3e6n3FX

Please find our latest weekly report on patients critically ill with #Covid_19, reporting patients admitted from 1 May 2021 to date compared with patients admitted from 1 September 2020 to 30 April 2021. icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audi…

Please stop using ‘for full escalation’. There is a host of invasive therapies. Some justified and some not. Ask for a critical care opinion… that is all.

Okay hear me out: make a hospital TV show with an American budget, beautiful American actors and thumping great doses of hyperbolic American melodrama… but set it on a UK AMU and deal exclusively with the everyday minutia of life on the NHS. Allow me to elaborate… 🧵

🔐Impact of direct laryngoscopy vs. videolaryngoscopy on signal quality of recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery: a randomised parallel group trial. This great new paper is now #OpenAccess and #FreeForever! 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

🔐Lean body weight local anaesthesia topicalisation charts for awake tracheal intubation. "We anticipate these charts will aid safe drug dosing and patient care, by improving compliance with the maximum safe doses of lidocaine..." 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Our study on rates of Mechanical Ventilation in Canada, US and England published today in JAMA Internal Medicine. We demonstrate a large variability in the use of invasive mechanical ventilation across the US, Canada and England. 1/6