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Thank you to everyone far and wide who has sent me messages of congratulations on receiving an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List. I am humbled and honoured to accept it on behalf of all the Retrieval and HEMS teams out there all over the world who work tirelessly every day

CSO are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the next intake of Clinical Academic Fellowships. This scheme is for clinical professionals early in their career to undertake a PhD. Further details can be found on our website:

Does HEMS respond where it's needed most? Just published @SJTREM Pre-hospital critical care saves lives & the most deprived are more likely to have critical illness or injury. But the Inverse Care Law says resource is often distributed inversely to need. https://t.co/6YdNlCJlNq

Edinburgh/Glasgow

The best thing about 3am sunrises in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is more time to think about #retrieval2025. New members on organising committee, new ideas coming together, same great opportunity to learn, connect and socialise. Put the dates in your diary - 1st and 2nd May 25 https://t.co/JeNaNpktH2

Welcome to our newest sites open to recruitment in Oxford, Lewisham & Aintree. We are still looking for further recruiting sites. If you are interested, please get in touch.

We are a team of researchers based at the University of Aberdeen. If you would like to submit the survey, you can access the survey at: https://t.co/8crNDbKvVb

Suicidology Predicting Suicide Death A recent study looking at >2M Americans presenting to ERs with MH concern shows the difficulty of "predicting suicide" - we can't predict suicide to help guide important clinical decisions. The problem: Sensitivity vs PPV /1

Wee bit chilly for the @EMRSscotland teams at @IPSPscotland today. Thanks to @Scotambservice @fire_scot #SORT colleagues for a great day

📆 Registration now open! @NRSTandE are hosting their 2024 Research Day on Wednesday 6 March at @perthTCH. Register 👉 https://t.co/YZBf4cPIMP

I don’t think I, or anyone else working in UK Emergency Departments, recognise this as the cause of 12 hour bed waits.

Join @NRSTandE on Wednesday 6thMarch 2024 for an update on Trauma and Emergency Research and Innovation in Scotland. TicketTailor registration details to follow

Balanced crystalloids versus saline for critically ill patients (BEST-Living): a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Great thread summarising the equipoise - @evis_trial is randomising this group of patients - resuscitation phase of septic shock- to standard care or early pressors/restricted fluids

Having done a bunch of studies in this space, here is all we know about balanced crystalloids vs. saline in critical illness in one tweet: If you have a traumatic brain injury give saline; otherwise give a balanced crystalloid. The end.

Great piece of work led by @ratchmclatch - thank you everyone in @clyde_em @GlasgowCRF for your work collecting data 🙏🏻

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video. https://t.co/aagZg9g7yd

New paper, just published at @SJTREM - how @EMRSscotland delivers aeromedical retrieval as a national service & its work in a system of pre-hospital critical care. Demonstrating potential of enhanced care in mitigating social and geographic inequalities. https://t.co/Sets3srQxn

If anyone wants to help us expand the evidence base in this area, we are now looking for new sites for @evis_trial