🌍 Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) varies widely between regions — but why? Definitions, diagnosis & practice all play a role. A must-read review in BJA Education. #BJAEdbjaed.org/article/S2058-…
Patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) are living longer 🫀➡️ increasing presentations for non-cardiac surgery. What does this mean for perioperative risk, planning & anaesthesia? 📘 New #BJAEd review. bjaed.org/article/S2058-…
Hypnosis & anaesthesia
Despite 142 identified studies describing 9238 patients, of which 59 were RCTs, the overall quality of the retrieved studies was weak and the level of evidence of the impact of hypnosis in this setting ranges from absent to moderate.
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Oooh, this is interesting!
"Surgical start timing was an independent risk factor for increased short- and long-term postoperative mortality, morbidity and healthcare resource utilisation."
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Today's Paper of the Day is:
Personalized antiseizure medication therapy in critically ill adult patients
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🔍 Identify unique features of ICU airway management.
Critically ill patients have physiologically difficult airways due to hypoxaemia, shock, and poor reserve—very different from elective theatres.
Full article 👉 bjaed.org/article/S2058-…#ICU#AirwayManagement
When VL was used as the first-choice device:
⬇️ patients experiencing at least 1 complication (5.5% vs. 9.7%)
⬇️ 3+ intubation attempts (1.2% v 2%)
⬇️ need to change operator (1.8% vs. 4.9%)
⬇️ oesophageal intubation (0.5% vs. 1.4%)
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In people having heart surgery, the highest number of deaths happened in:
• people who had anaemia both before and after surgery (17.8%)
• people who had no anaemia before but had it after surgery (13.1%)
#anaesthesia#MedTwitter#haematology#anaemiadoi.org/10.1111/anae.1…
Blood Product Transfusion in Adult Intensive Care Unit: An Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine Position Paper
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Is assessing ASA still important?
People with worse ASA scores had a much higher chance of dying after surgery
• ASA 3: 14 times more likely to die within 30 days than people with ASA 1
• ASA 4 or higher: more than 50 times more likely to die within 30 days
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Some gases used to put people to sleep during surgery can harm the environment. Because of this, some countries have made rules to limit their use. This study looked at how these gases have been used over time and how much they added to air pollution.
#climate#anaesthesia…
2025 AHA/ACC/AANP/AAPA/ABC/ACCP/ACPM/AGS/AMA/ASPC/NMA/PCNA/SGIM Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults
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Delirium is the most common sign of acute brain dysfunction & is prevalent in ICUs.
What do you do to prevent and manage it?
Only half of UK ICUs use a standardised care package, with inconsistent implementation.
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Can pre-operative dexmedetomidine nasal spray reduce the incidence of emergence agitation in adult patients having ENT surgery?
YES!
This could enhance peri-operative care for these procedures.
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Original article: Pre-operative dexmedetomidine nasal spray and emergence agitation in adults undergoing ear, nose and throat surgery: a randomised controlled trial
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A new biomarker for post-operative nausea and vomiting: lower preoperative plasma #GDF-15 concentrations were associated with higher odds of #PONV and more severe PONV symptoms
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