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Anaesthetist interested in Regional Anaesthesia
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The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

As featured on Rest is Entertainment our @moreincommonuk.bsky.social polling of how Brits favourite Christmas films breakdown by voting intention. Labour holds landslide leads with fans of Elf & the Grinch. Tories storm ahead with Love Actually and Reform are ahead by 5 points with fans of Scrooged.

60 or so spaces left in my final pack for the moment. Pack 4. Should that be you in there? Let me know

This thread is amazing

To change this back: Settings > content and media > thread preferences > sort replies I'm very against letting like count define the feed, it prompted the worst of clout chasing of The Other Place

Don't forget to use the starter packs to find people who want to follow here. It takes a while to rebuild community, this is one way of doing so more quickly.

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....

Career thought for today

Hello from the official Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) Blue Sky account! We're one of the largest specialist medical colleges in Australia and New Zealand, and the region's foremost authority on #anaesthesia, #painmedicine and #perioperativemedicine.

Hello new arrivals! There's no algorithm here, no ads, and a culture of inclusion. If you interact, people with interact back. Three things you can do straightaway to bloot like a pro- 1. Reconstruct networks 2. Starter packs 3. Alt text

Pack 2 #AnSky #ICUSky #ICMSky #MedSky #anaesthetists #anesthesiologists #Intensivists Reply here if you want to join! go.bsky.app/QEgekcF

Thank you for sharing my #StarterPacks - I'm trying to keep up. If you've messaged or followed etc apologies if I have not responded. Do please keep engaging as I may have missed you. My feed is full of fabulous people with fabulous content. X all but moved here TBH

Yesterday's Epidural working beautifully. Back to loving them again. Thought I do miss Spinal Diamorphine from the UK.

That was 'Not Enough Resources' by Invalid Handle

'Do women haka?' My oath they do. #pukana #ProudKiwi

We’ll add this to our Liszt of terrible jokes.

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

What is the most stressful anaesthetic procedure and why is it the thoracic epidural?

Erector spinae plane block v rectus sheath block • What primary endpoints establish superiority? • Without assessing standardised endpoints how can we know clinical significance? • How generalisable is this study? #AnSky #MedSky https://buff.ly/40K0dgW https://buff.ly/3As6ymx

Nice to be on Bluesky! Feels like we are starting all over again, but that’s probably a good thing! #PedsAnes #Anesthesiology #resetbutton

Looking for some anaesthesia/anesthesiology & critical care accounts. Start here. go.bsky.app/4N4D7MW

Anatomy of a basic general anaesthetic: a thread 🧵 Lots of people get understandably nervous about going to hospital to have an anaesthetic/operation, so I thought I'd go through the patient journey and what we do in theatre for a common, uncomplicated anaesthetic. #Medsky #AnSky

If you don't listen to cautionary tales you are really missing out. Fabulous series of podcasts.

In 1827, Edinburgh, Scotland was a world centre for anatomical study, but there was a shortage of cadavers for medical students to dissect.... timharford.com/2024/10/caut...