Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) and LMA passer. Socialist.
Joined September 2010
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Reg Howard retweeted
Israel's latest bombing of Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Thursday killed six Palestinians, including surgeon Rizo Abu Shaira. “It's just barbarism,” says @FerozeSidhwa, a surgeon from the U.S. who worked alongside Abu Shaira in Gaza. “That's an American-made bomb dropped by an American-made airplane burning American-supplied jet fuel.”
Reg Howard retweeted
Occlude an artery. Watch the 12-lead and the echo answer.
Superb build by @cliffreid with Claude Code. Posterior OMI, Aslanger, de Winter... on one 3D heart.
For anyone reading ECGs in theatre or ICU.
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Ever wondered why a coronary occlusion gives the ECG it does?
Block any part of the coronary circulation on a 3D heart and watch the 12-lead (and the echo!) evolve.
Free for learning and teaching. Have fun!
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#FOAMed #ECG #OMI #MedEd #Cardiology
Reg Howard retweeted
This is not a ceasefire.
Bombing one of Gaza’s few functioning hospitals is yet another violation of international law. @WHO has recorded 140+ attacks on healthcare since the “ceasefire” began. Enough. @andyburnham, act now to end the Israeli force’s war crimes in Gaza.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckzd…
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🚨Last night’s attack on Nasser Hospital has made one thing clear: there is no ceasefire in Gaza.
Hospitals, healthcare workers, and patients are under attack in Israel's genocide. Vital aid is still being blocked.
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My colleague and friend Dr. Rizk Abu Shaaira was killed yesterday at work when Israel, backed by the US as always, bombed the surgical recovery room at Nasser Medical Complex. Two of his colleagues were badly injured, and many patients were hurt and killed. Dr. Rizk is featured on the original poster for the documentary American Doctor, standing to my right as we did a redo laparotomy on a disaster abdomen.
Dr. Rizk was one of those surgeons we describe as "super enthusiastic". On rounds he would jump at the opportunity to change a dressing, clean a wound, or pull a drain. He always had an answer to any question anyone asked. He embodied the surgical wisdom that "a chance to cut is a chance to cure."
Dr. Rizk's shocking murder is yet another reminder of why we must get control of our country. Our government has no right to force us to subsidize the mass murder of doctors and children, not in Palestine and not anywhere.
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'I've never held a childs brains before, Ive never seen children assasinated before, I've never thought I would see a 6 year olds shot in the chest and head by snipers before, that changes you forever." - Surgeon Mark Perlmutter speaks about the horror of what he say in Gaza.
via @watermelon_pics
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11am. We fall silent for the dead of 1914-18 and every war since.
The silence should make war unthinkable. Yet Britain allows US bombers to use its bases to bomb Iran, a war 100 international law experts call illegal.
Britain must choose peace. That is what remembrance demands.
Reg Howard retweeted
Happy Perioperative Nurses Week! 💙
This week, we're celebrating perioperative nurses everywhere. Thank you for the care you provide, the knowledge you share and the support you give to those around you.
#PerioperativeNursesWeek #BuildingTogether #ORNurses #PerioperativeCare
Reg Howard retweeted
Pain management after total shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review and procedure-specific postoperative pain management (PROSPECT) recommendations
#anaesthesia #regionalanaesthesia #regionalanesthesia #pain #MedTwitter #MedX
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🚪 ODP renewal is still open until Monday 30 November.
Renew your HCPC registration in your online account. Most ODPs only need their declaration and fee 💙
✅ CPDme is included in CODP membership
Join CODP: codp.org.uk/page/home#join
#WeAreODPs #CODPLeadsChange
Reg Howard retweeted
Pleased to see this published
NARRATIVE REVIEW OF RSI
Loads of information & we hope a good overview
The topic is very controversial, sadly sometimes driven by not being up to dare with the existing evidence.
Feel free to read, discuss & dispute!
doi.org/10.1111/anae.70449
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We've gone from "supporting Palestine Action is criminal" to "opposing the proscription of Palestine Action is criminal" without any new laws being passed.
It should worry anyone when opposing government decisions has been made an arrestable offence.
This is the statement issued by the Met Police about the Defend Our Juries demonstration today. Commander Adam Slonecki, from Scotland Yard, said: “All those intending on coming to this event know that supporting a proscribed organisation is unlawful – they are essentially meeting to purposefully commit a crime.” This is a remarkable contrual of the law and extent of police powers. Surely it cannot be right that someone protesting against the Government’s decision to proscribe an organisation is automatically interpreted by the Met Police as supporting that organisation and is therefore committing an arrest-able offence. This is especially the case when the proscription is being challenged in the courts. I believe the government and parliament made the wrong decision in proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and I continue to call for its deproscription by the government. If the people turning up today to demonstrate against the proscription of Palestine Action are to be arrested for simply turning up, are we all to be criminalised for suggesting the government got this wrong?
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All 43 of my @PrivateEyeNews Letby columns are here. Many neonatal experts believe there is no evidence of murder, & clear evidence of more plausible causes of collapse and death. However, these arguments should have been made by experts at her trial. Why weren’t they? private-eye.co.uk/special-re…
All 32 of my @PrivateEyeNews columns on Lucy Letby are available here. She was never observed harming a baby, the forensic evidence against her is very poor and experts of far higher standing than those who gave evidence at her trial have concluded that all of the deaths and collapses can be understood without any need for deliberate harm. However, it is clear some of the babies received very substandard care. The @ccrcupdate has had 10 months to consider whether to refer her case back to the appeal court. If it delays its decision beyond a year, I think anonymized expert reports from both sides should be placed in the public domain, starting with the insulin cases. And experts on both sides should be invited to meet and debate the glaring differences in their reports. @VeraBaird
private-eye.co.uk/special-re…
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“You’ll need ultrasound to get that in”
“No no, we have to have a go”
“Respectfully we’ve heard 50+ people say the same thing and then wreck the vein”
“Well we can try….”
And repeat.
It is *so* frustrating sometimes in the NHS.
LISTEN TO THE SODDING PATIENT
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Finally an explanation for this sudden focus on "emergency preparedness" that I can believe.
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Holding down staff pay 'to protect the service' is no different from introducing a special NHS tax that's only paid by NHS employees.
We do not have a unique responsibility to fund the healthcare system. It falls on everyone, and SHOULD fall fairly.
Pay rise above 2.4% would hit elective targets, DHSC warns ift.tt/dbsLyV3
