Leon du Toit
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Anaesthesiologist, student of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
St Louis, MO
Joined May 2010
Timely access to critical care saves lives in any health-care context. On the cover, a Comment explores the findings of the ACIOS study investigating the prevalence, treatment, and outcomes of critically ill patients in African hospitals. Read this & more ➡️
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Dr. @SunnyLouMD was awarded first place in the Best Clinical Research Abstract competition at #WCA2024! Her research on surgical transfusion risk prediction has the potential to enhance patient outcomes & streamline healthcare resources.
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Sunny Lou, MD, PhD, an instructor in anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was awarded first place in the Best Clinical Research Abstract competition at the World...
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We are reminded that while airway disasters are rare, aspiration remains a problem, we are bad at doing (=documenting) airway assessment, blind techniques like Fastrach LMA have low success rate, we need to support airway databases.
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In many countries, issues of consent are not decided under The Common Law but rather what the court says it should be.
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Improving surgical healthcare services in LMICs should concern you even if the “hole isn’t at your end”
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Results from the POISE-3 trial published in Annals of IM: Hypotension-Avoidance Versus Hypertension-Avoidance Strategies in Noncardiac Surgery: An International Randomized Controlled Trial
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Background: Among patients having noncardiac surgery, perioperative hemodynamic abnormalities are associated with vascular complications. Uncertainty remains about what intraoperative blood pressure...
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#ASOS Surgical Risk Calculator is now available on the Google Play store. Good for #Surgical Risk stratification in Africa. Thanks to @Net4PCc and @3tewodros and @Mr_FitsK for supporting the app development
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Congratulations to @ChristellaAlph1 and her family. Such a wonderful celebration of important #perioperative medicine work.
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VOCAL-Penn: best risk score for surgery in cirrhosis? Don’t just go with Child-Pugh. #Periop2023
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Important work by BASEL-PMI team showing adverse long-term outcomes after postop myocardial injury, irrespective of etiology and MI classification. Once again evidence that categorizing as "type II" and not addressing is detrimental to patients
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AbstractAims. Perioperative myocardial infarction/injury (PMI) following non-cardiac surgery is a frequent cardiac complication. Better understanding of th
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High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I thresholds (Abbott) to identify myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery: a cohort study
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It turns out the relationship between perioperative benzos and postoperative delirium is not as clear as many think! More research required!@BJAJournals @DataPartyInc@PHRIresearch @ebelleycote@RichardWhitloc2 #bfree
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Benzodiazepine use is associated with delirium, and guidelines recommend avoiding them in older and critically ill patients. Their perioperative use remains common because of perceived benefits.
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TIPS for TIVA: Where to put the electrodes edition. Forehead not available? No problem. Pretty good trace and display. Nice gas induction to TIVA Eleveld model without opioid.great wake up. 👍😊
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Defining the Aims of Perioperative Nursing Research in... : Anesthesia & Analgesia Thanks to @IARS_Journals for highlighting our research with a cool infographic and editorial. Infographic shows main findings. #APORG @AfricanSOS @Gill_Bedwell
https://t.co/k8vI0UfQI9
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Save the date: 2024 World Congress of Epidemiology, Cape Town, South Africa - https://t.co/w8TyDc1zwm
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