ICU Cons + ICS Council. FUSIC committee ❤️POCUS / FOAMed. Editor: Ox. Handbook of Thoracic Anaesthesia & founder Critical Care Northampton. All views my own
I thought I would share this with you all. From Massimo Gianni. A synopsis of a videoconference held today by intensivists in northern Italy, all of them fighting the battle against
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She’s here. Olivia Wilkinson. Not weighed yet. Baby and Mum very well. Apart from mum needing to go to theatre for a retained placenta; bless her!
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So proud of Hannah!!
So here it is! All bundled together for you all to use. There’s help, protocols, checklists, presentations and teaching guides.
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We will regularly update it and we hope it helps keep us all safe during uncertainty.
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Today’s Tweetorial for you!
We look at basic cardiac
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views👍 🫀
First; the Parasternal Long Axis (PLAX)
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Probe position shown with marker to right shoulder, left Parasternal edge; roughly at intercostal spaces 2-3/3-4🤷♂️
So, remember C3,4,5 keeps you alive?!
Yes, today’s Tweetorial from
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,
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and myself is all about the diaphragm!
It’s a pretty vital muscle, and a muscle often forgotten. It’s no wonder why, when it’s weak, your patients won’t liberate from the ventilator!
Deresuscitation has become more and more ubiquitous within ICU practice. But what tools can we use to do it? Over the next 2 Tweetorials, i’ll explain some pharmacological methods. Focussing on the JICS mix!
My talk from
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My attempt at a Tweetorial! Ascites, tense abdomen and low urine output. AKI. Overloaded. SOB worsening over last 6 months. Comes to ITU. I pop the probe on.....
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PLAX
I am proud as punch to announce the arrival of our son Finley James Wilkinson. Born at 04:26 weighing 8lb 4oz. Well done
@hannahwilko06
, you were truly awesomexx
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Quick check on a newly placed CVC using the
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. CVC under direct vision✅ Wire and catheter visualised in vein✅ Lungs scanned✅ ❌pneumothorax. Then the pièce de résistance...subcostal view; agitated saline whoosh in Ra/RV✅✅ Safe to use👌
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Right peeps!! A bugbear of mine here. THINK ABOUT YOUR PATIENTS on ICU or in theatres!! Don’t slam the bins...look at this. Your patients do not need this! It shocks me; let alone them!
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ICYMI
Here’s how to perform lung
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in one quick Tweetorial.
It’s the first modality I would learn if you are starting out👍👌
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We are teaching our docs / Physios / Outreach nurses to embrace it to help our patients.
Lung
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- Auscultation is practically useless in
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for so many reasons. I am biased though. So, perhaps we need to rapidly train as many people as we can to perform LUS. AMONGST ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS🤯😉
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I have popped in heaps more videos / checklists / infographics / news and much more. Trying my best to promote keeping us all safe during
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. Anything else to include, let me know!
Just wanted to share this.
A donation from my fantastic stepdad to our new ICU. He has made it through cancer👏
ICU played a big part in his journey - my team made me so proud!🙏
He certainly knows the way to our hearts!!
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'Postnatal anxiety convinced me my baby was going to die' Uber proud of my wife
@hannahwilko06
for putting this out there. No one should feel they can’t speak up about this or suffer alone. Help and good ears are out there.
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Love this...integration of
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into peri-op care of our patients. Great stuff! I have just retweeted the paper...I feel a S.O.P coming, along as this is applicable to both the ICU environment and theatres.
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The 6 myths Six myths of the surviving sepsis guidelines
Poetry in motion
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A must read for all ICU clinicians and the like. Just because it’s gospel doesn’t mean it’s right!
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Put it all together in
@DanielLICHTENS1
’S BLUE protocol to see how amazingly useful Lung
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is!
Happy scanning. All this and more to come in a book chapter with
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and some fab stuff with
@GEHealthcare
soon!
The happiest 1st birthday to our little Olivia!! So sorry I’m not there with you 😔
Well done for surviving an 12 months with us - no batteries swallowed, no bleach consumed, some soil eaten and a few candles / plants knocked over…but we love you dearly! 💕
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ACE inhibitors as a potential risk factor for fatal Covid-19 / Don’t confuse ACE-I and ARB’s when treating
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patients...they have quite the opposite potential effects. One exaggerating mortality, the other reducing?🤷♂️🤔
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Fabulous article on IV fluid therapy by some BIG names in fluid therapy research. I had been lucky enough to see his pre-pub. 🙏
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for pointing it out.
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we’re mentioned. Can you spot it?
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It’s time for another Tweetorial:
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The Liver!
It is arbitrarily divided into 3 lobes:
1) R
2) L
3) Caudate
A crude line drawn between the GB, the main lobar fissure (MLF) and the IVC divides L and R!
A system to consider before admitting
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patients to your ICU. Includes frailty scoring, SOFA and co-morbidities. Adapted from the Royal Cornwall guidance.
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