Chris Gray
@cgraydoc
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EM/ICM consultant with a PHEM interest, musician, teacher. @StEmlyns contributor. Midlands-born, London-trained, Northern convert. He/Him. #FOAMed
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Joined September 2009
📣 Five days of strike action starts today. These strikes could have been averted, if @Wesstreeting had a credible offer for us to consider. ✊ Find your nearest picket: https://t.co/HyLGfwqpqg Stick Together. Strike Together. Win Together.
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🚨 NEW GUIDELINE 🚨 We're delighted to announce the publication of our new sports cardiology guideline, endorsed by @CRY_UK - check it out here: https://t.co/kFPjhKuoEN Read our blog: https://t.co/T7pNXoNFwi Thanks to our authors: @oxborough77
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Of people who required non-immediate care in an A&E department in England between 21 March 2021 and 30 April 2022, and did not die during their A&E attendance, 1.3% died within 30 days of returning home or be admitted to inpatient care. ➡️ https://t.co/NyrKVBnsg5
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Our @HelipadHELP sponsored critical care vehicle is our tonight crewed by Critical Care Paramedic @oggie272, Doctor @cgraydoc and new Trustee Dane in support of @NWAmbulance We wish them a safe night #volunteers #charity #Merseyside #Manchester #Lancashire #Cheshire @BASICS_HQ
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Someone really tried hard with this acronym eh? (It gets a composite BEAUTY/CHEATING score of -3, if you only count the first half of the study name that is! https://t.co/Bi6mCahnUr)
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Objectives To describe the development of acronym use across five major medical specialties and to evaluate the technical and aesthetic quality of the acronyms. Design Acronyms obtained through a...
surgiCaL educAtion to Reduce IncorrecT care pathwaYs and enhance patient outcomes in right iliac fossa pain Read about the CLARITY study registered on #ISRCTN by @bicops @starsurgUK @WMRC_UK
#ClinicalTrials
https://t.co/cY7DIdsK8t
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Surgeons wouldn’t operate in a broom cupboard Dermatologists wouldn’t run clinic in the canteen ICU wouldn’t ventilate patients in the car park So why do we expect that Emergency care can be provided on corridors?
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The SHED study is published! Thanks to the 100s of contributors around the UK... This paper raises a lot of questions - how will it influence your work? What post test probability of SAH and aneurysmal SAH are you, and your patients, comfortable with? https://t.co/zyKxW71DPo
emj.bmj.com
Background People presenting to the ED with acute severe headache often undergo investigation to exclude subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). International guidelines propose that brain imaging within...
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Top 5 reasons why you would need to perform an arterial blood gas: 1. There aren’t any 2. Do a VBG instead 3. Or a capillary gas 4. Stop torturing patients 5. No seriously please stop it
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We're on strike today, fighting for #PayRestoration. Watch doctors on the picket lines explain why. #DoctorsStrike
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We are all SATH
For those at the back… it’s not just SATH. Corridor care is endemic throughout the NHS and most EDs struggle with space to give their patients dignity. 48hrs in a chair/ waiting room is not isolated either. This is very much on the government and choices made by hospital execs.
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Dr Robert Laurenson, "Rishi Sunak has no clear plan.. He has no action.. Rishi Sunak has been the man who has blocked talks on pay for 20 months" @RobLaurensonD4P "Rishi Sunak is spending 35% more on Physician Associates around the country.. In 1 in 8 hospitals there is
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Fabulous listening to leading multi professional researchers on hot topics in #criticalcare
#SOA24 @ICS_updates @ACCLiverpool Currently listening to @gazkitch discussing trials examining ventilators strategies on ICU #CoReCCT #consciousproning @NIHRresearch
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Do have a read of this at the @ICS_updates stand in exhibition hall #SOA24 Coffee table versions available to browse and QR codes to download 👇🏻
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Excited to be here at State of the Art once again, hoping to get some tweeting and blogging in around the learning! Lovely morning in Liverpool as well, hopefully the weather holds up. @stemlyns #SOA24
Welcome to #SOA24! It's just the start of three jam packed days of intensive care learning and networking. We can't wait to meet you all and share ideas as a community. Share your intensive care experience on the hashtag #SOA24 Meet, learn and have fun!
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Some people get all the luck...
🐟 So today I found a goldfish just on the grass in my back garden. It was alive, I think, and have absolutely no idea where it came from. There’s no ponds anywhere near. So I took it inside….
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