Dad, husband, Trauma/Gen Surgeon/intensivist @UFJaxtrauma, author, student, teacher, musician🎼,soccer⚽️ & KY Wildcats fan 🏀. From #Gaza. Views are my own.
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Pie crusting / fenestration technique to enable delayed primary closure of fasciotomy wound done for extremity compartment syndrome. It works! No skin graft required! (Posted with patient permission) #SoMe4Surgery #MedTwitter @champlippmann
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Just a reminder: $4 billion is not the amount the US gives to Israel. That's merely the absolute minimum the US is required to give each year under the Obama/Netanyauh agreement of 2016.
In 2024 alone, Biden gave Israel another $18 billion directly beyond the minimum guarantee. Then there are the tens of billions of direct costs to deploy the US military and deplete US weapons systems to protect Israel. Then there are the billions the US gives to dictatorships in the region to keep anti-Israel anger suppressed (like Egypt and Jordan).
And that's before even getting to the immense costs of the Iran War, which is being fought against Israel's prime adversary and was started at Israel's urging/insistence. Israel is by far the largest recipient of US aid for decades. The $4 billion aid package is just the start, never the end.
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Watch this.
Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists.
“We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
Broken needle. Infected wound. Unexpected solution. We repurposed the anesthesia pacemaker magnet to locate and retrieve an embedded hypodermic needle in a patient with injection-related complications. Surgical ingenuity at its best: resourceful, unconventional & focus on the pt.
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❇️What You Need To Know❇️
"Cervical spine clearance in adult trauma patients: What you need to know"
Cervical spine clearance made simple! This timely, evidence-based review defines how CT is enough for most adults, outlines exceptions and delivers a practice-ready algorithm to reduce unnecessary #MRI and prolonged cervical collar use. #CervicalSpine #NEXUS #TraumaSurgery #JTACS
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This is just the latest of many outrageous Israeli regime assaults on the United Nations. For years, the regime has blocked UN operations, attacked UN premises and convoys, looted UN property, smeared and slandered UN agencies, PNG’d UN officials, abducted, detained, and tortured UN staff, and murdered hundreds of UN personnel. And still the regime is allowed to walk freely through the corridors of UN headquarters with full rights and privileges. Would this be allowed from any other state on the planet? Israel must be removed from the UN now. If the U.S. vetoes the move, let the UNGA reject the regime’s credentials, as it did with apartheid South Africa. UN, off your knees. Expel, isolate, and hold accountable this violent, racist regime.
Today in the early morning, Israeli police accompanied by municipal officials forcibly entered the @UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem. Police motorcycles, as well as trucks & forklifts, were brought in & all communications were cut. Furniture, IT equipment & other property was seized. The @UN flag was pulled down & replaced with an Israeli flag.
This latest action represents a blatant disregard of Israel’s obligation as a United Nations Member State to protect & respect the inviolability of UN premises.
Following months of harassment that included arson attacks in 2024, hateful demonstrations & intimidation, supported by a large-scale disinformation campaign, as well as anti-UNRWA legislation passed by the Israeli parliament in breach of its international obligations, UNRWA personnel were forced to vacate the compound at the beginning of this year.
However, whatever action taken domestically, the compound retains its status as a UN premises, immune from any form of interference.
Israel is party to the Convention on the Privileges & Immunities of the UN. The Convention makes UN premises inviolable - in other words, immune from search and/or seizure - and makes UN property and assets immune from legal process.
The International Court of Justice has also underscored that Israel is obliged to cooperate with UNRWA & other UN agencies.
There can be no exceptions. To allow this represents a new challenge to international law, one that creates a dangerous precedent anywhere else the UN is present across the world.
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But…Why are we even using mortality as an endpoint for a diagnostic tool (vs. an intervention)?
(Reminscent of the problematic Swan Ganz data… and a-lines carry even lower procedural risk..)
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#icu #CriticalCare #MedEd @SCCM
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would like to express my sincere gratitude for the excellent course. It was informative, well-organized, and truly inspiring
إقامة أول دورة من نوعها في المنطقة – AAST/ESTES EMERGENCY SURGERY COURSE
في خطوة تعكس التقدّم المتسارع للقطاع الطبي في دولة الكويت، استضاف قسم الجراحة العامة في مستشفى الجهراء الجديد برئاسة الدكتور محمد الجسمي وبالتعاون مع الجمعية الأمريكية لجراحة الإصابات (AAST) والجمعية الأوروبية لجراحة الطوارئ (ESTES).
دورة AAST/ESTES EMERGENCY SURGERY COURSE العالمية
وتُعد هذه الورشة من أهم البرامج التدريبية العالمية المتخصصة في جراحة الطوارئ، جراحة الإصابات، والعناية المركزة للحالات الجراحية الحرجة، حيث شارك فيه نخبة من الأطباء والخبراء الدوليين من مختلف دول العالم لتبادل الخبرات ومناقشة أحدث المستجدات والتقنيات في هذا المجال الحيوي.
حيث تعتبر هذه الورشة التدريبية منصة تعليمية متقدمة تهدف إلى رفع كفاءة الكوادر الطبية وتعزيز قدراتهم في التعامل مع الحالات الجراحية الطارئة والمعقدة، مما ينعكس بشكل مباشر على تحسين جودة الرعاية الصحية وسلامة المرضى.
ويأتي هذا ضمن جهود مستشفى الجهراء الجديد لترسيخ مكانة الكويت كوجهة رائدة في التعليم الطبي المستمر وتطوير مهارات الكوادر الوطنية، من خلال نقل المعرفة العالمية وتطبيق أحدث الممارسات في التعامل مع الحالات الجراحية الحرجة.
كما يعكس هذا الإنجاز التزام دولة الكويت برؤية طبية طموحة تهدف إلى رفع جودة الرعاية الصحية وتعزيز جاهزية الكوادر في مواجهة أصعب الحالات الجراحية والطارئة.
#قسم_الجراحة_العامة
#مستشفى_الجهراء #وزارة_الصحة #الكويت
Honored to participate in the #EGS course @JahrahospitalQ8 Inspiring conversations with their talented residents,Kuwait’s future surgical leaders. @JahraSurgery poised to become the premier acute care surgery dept in #Kuwait. Thx for your hospitality @Dr_MoH_ALjasmi @dr_yousef_7
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Platelet releasates mitigate the endotheliopathy of trauma dlvr.it/TNqyLq
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New Research: International healthcare workers report on war related injuries among civilians in Gaza
Findings suggest patterns of harm that exceed those reported in previous modern day conflicts
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"Almost everyone who's worked in Gaza since Oct 7...has seen small children shot in the head on a regular basis there... Most of the serious injuries are in children. Very few of us have ever even seen a combatant in the Gaza Strip, let alone treated one. This is largely a war against the civilian population... They're using our weapons to do it, and we don't want that. It's pretty simple." abcnews.go.com/International…
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لأول مرة في الكويت، اعلن رئيس قسم الجراحة العامة د. محمد الجسمي : يستضيف مستشفى الجهراء الجديد
AAST/ESTES Emergency Surgery Course
وبمشاركة نخبة من أعلام الجراحة حول العالم.
الكورس يُعد من أهم البرامج التدريبية التي تمنح الأطباء مهارات متقدمة للتعامل مع الحالات الحرجة
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During our successfully conducted visit today to Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was arrested in December 2024 and remains incarcerated in Israel, a serious and alarming picture emerged.
Since his arrest, Dr. Abu Safiya has lost approximately 25 kilograms. He suffers from serious scabies and heart problems but is not receiving any medical treatment. It became clear during the visit that Dr. Abu Safiya has not been brought before a judge, investigated, or given any information about the reason for his arrest since March.
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So proud of so many of my Jewish friends in health professions for coming together to oppose the US-Israeli genocide in #Gaza. @realDonaldTrump you can stop this slaughter of children any time you like.
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Here's the open letter from Jewish health professionals (from doctors to nurses to respiratory therapists to administrators to chaplains to researchers to public and mental health professionals!) about the genocide in #Gaza. Sign if interested! jewishhealthcare.net/
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Israeli forces killed second-year medical student Shams Majdi Al-Kahlout in an airstrike on the Harzallah building in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood. Her sister, Sarah, a final-year medical student, was critically wounded and had her leg amputated. The strike killed seven people and wounded 25 others — many of them children.
(Info via @HCWWatch)
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Isolated abnormal laboratory tests necessitate obtaining abdominal CT for pediatric patients with BAT. Our findings highlight significance of clinical findings in the trauma bay, regardless of lab findings, when deciding to order abdominal CT imaging for pediatric BAT patients.
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