Alex Psirides @psirides

Co-director @WellingtonICU. Aeromedical retrieval @lifeflightnz. Once ventilated a chimpanzee. https://t.co/ziR6f5C3W2 wellingtonicu.com Wellington, New Zealand Joined July 2009

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The Royal Australasian College of Physicians @TheRACP

2 months ago

The latest episode of Pomegranate Health #podcast has landed. This time we talk about the line between life and death: cardiac arrest and CPR. Listen now #cardiology @HeartLungCirc @psirides @drkathrynmannix ow.ly/13i250Wo7L6

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Alex Psirides @psirides

a year ago

Oh, and this.

Wellington ICU @WellingtonICU

a year ago

Oh, and this.

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Alex Psirides @psirides

a year ago

It’s been 7 years but I think I’ve found a worthy successor.

Alex Psirides @psirides

8 years ago

It’s been 7 years but I think I’ve found a worthy successor. https://t.co/BP87zrHSwC

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Alex Psirides @psirides

a year ago

The cognitive dissonance in NAP7 makes my head hurt. Especially ‘duration of CPR >1hr’ in a patient who was not for CPR.

𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 @Anaes_Journal

a year ago

The cognitive dissonance in NAP7 makes my head hurt. Especially ‘duration of CPR >1hr’ in a patient who was not for CPR. https://t.co/C9llX4zPPX

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides Smart people, especially nurses, say we need to work on our culture. We can’t compete with Australian money, but we can on workplace culture – where people feel respected, and able to work at their full scope. This we can achieve. 22/26

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides (Sidenote: yep, Brexit. Before 2016/17 the NHS relied on EU nurses. After Brexit, this source disappeared and increasingly unscrupulous NHS recruiters turned in many cases to countries on the WHO “red list” – countries with domestic workforce shortages. Africa, Pacific.)

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides The majority of these nurses putting their documents together to get to Australia are internationally qualified. There is a flow of nurses from the Global South to the UK NHS, then to Aotearoa, then right on to Australia in search of better conditions. It’s hopscotch. 21/26

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides And many of our new nurses are not staying. Australian data show large increases in ANZ nurses granted registration in Australia in the last two years. Nearly tripling in 2022/23. 20/26

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides But they aren’t coming directly from India – it appears the vast majority are leaving terrible conditions in the NHS. 19/26

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides Where did they come from? (And importantly, for later, where do they go?) Data show the majority of new IQNs entering ANZ are originally trained in India, *not* the Philippines as once used to be the case. 18/26

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides However, in 2022/2023, the numbers of internationally qualified nurses (IQNs) entering Aotearoa suddenly soared after our borders opened. 17/26

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides Our nursing workforce was second only to Ireland in being overseas-trained in 2021 (I don’t like the OECD’s “foreign” here but that’s what they use). We rely on sources abroad. 16/26

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

@psirides Part 3: this is some really innovative stuff. 1: nurses coming into NZ. In 2021/2022 the NZNO was screaming for more nurses – critical shortages everywhere. We already had an incredibly unrepresentative nursing workforce. 15/26

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Carl Shuker 🌻 @CarlShuker

a year ago

Because of our deteriorating patient programme, led by @psirides' hard, hard work, you’re less likely to get a cardiac arrest in hospital, and more likely to meet a friendly rapid response team with a trolley if your vitals decline. 9/26

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Wellington ICU @WellingtonICU

a year ago

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