Dr Nav Sidhu
@DrNavSidhu
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Random posts on medicine, regional anaesthesia, medical education, gastric ultrasouns.
Joined August 2011
Other anaesthetists to me: โWhatโs with this #GastricUltrasound stuff you keep going on about? Never needed it. Itโs all hocus #POCUS. Just stick the tube down. Are you a man or a mouse?โ #Anesthesiology #Anaesthesia #MedTwitter
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Vinay has achieved the impossible: uniting the left and @WSJ in combined revulsion. Seriously: any reasonable political belief system will support access to evidence-based vaccination. From an economic standpoint, vaccines have terrific ROI & health improves national security.
"Itโs hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time asย Vinay Prasad." What an opening sentence!
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Pam Bondi loses her shit when asked โhow many co-conspirators have you indicted?โ The answer is zero! He then said: โYour DOJ fired the lead prosecutor on the case, you sat on evidence this entire time and claimed false last July that there were no more leads. It took an
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Excited to join the #RAUK26 lineup in Bristol this May! ๐ค Iโm chairing a must-watch โAsk the Expertsโ session with international experts in RA ๐ง ๐ ๐ Bristol Beacon ๐
May 7-8th 2026 ๐ https://t.co/UL3WjiJLyt โ Pro tip: Grab that Early Bird rate before it ends on Feb 13th!
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Unpaid (and very poorly paid) internships are a way to filter out poor people from the job pool so rich kids donโt have to compete with them on merit.
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UK formally acknowledges Batang Kali massacre after 77 year fight The UK has formally acknowledged the 1948 Batang Kali massacre as a tragedy, expressing 'deep regret' over the killing of 24 unarmed villagers by British troops during the Malayan Emergency. 1/๐งต
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What do you read in blue? It's gonna be one helluva meeting. @RegionalAnaesUK #Anaesthesia #Anesthesiology
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Nelson Mandela died 12 years ago today. RIP โI was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.โ
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@maffygirl Do we need a video on an SGA (routinely) I was struck by the fact in a poster I was down to judge that there was no correlation between laryngeal view down an I-gel and position over the larynx What is our goal? Good ventilation or perfect positioning over the larynx? I post
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๐ข Calling all anaesthesia professionals and trainees! Do you have examples of dogma or experience-based traditions that you have heard of, learned and/or even passed on? Please share with us! This study is IRB-approved: https://t.co/ReHCRtkYN6
@AJMilamMDPhD @NatalieKoons
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Read about the experience of Gold Coast University Hospital in embedding gastric ultrasound into their daily practice. #Anaesthesia #Anesthesiology #POCUS #GastricUltrasound
https://t.co/pI8o3VUEZr
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@EMARIANOMD @DrNavSidhu @ASA_Australia @ANZCA @TheNZSA @ESRA_trainees @Anaes_Residents @RegionalAnaesUK @elboghdadly @PerlasAnahi @rosie_hogg @KalagaraHari Sidhu sip! Love it. Almost as iconic at The Nutbush in Parliament House!
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Brilliant closing plenary session for #NSC25 The great debate: we are all peri-operative physicians (pro/con). Very entertaining but also good ?s raised: -Isn't anaesthesia periop medicine? Is this well-known? -Are there unintended consequences to leaving theatres for clinics?
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Tips from @DrNavSidhu for applying gastric ultrasound in pre-anaesthetic evaluation #NSC25 Ref for grading system: https://t.co/ycwWo7fALl The "Sidhu sip" (water challenge) can help differentiate the presence of solids from cross-section of gastric rugae
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@EMARIANOMD @DrNavSidhu @ASA_Australia @ANZCA @TheNZSA @ESRA_trainees @Anaes_Residents @RegionalAnaesUK @elboghdadly @PerlasAnahi @rosie_hogg @KalagaraHari Doing the Sidhu sip for a few patients now, and antrum does show up
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Proud to be a part of this Regional Anaesthesia/PoCUS teaching faculty at the NSC Canberra 2025 @ASA_Australia #nsc25 #ANZRA
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Shout-out to @rosie_hogg from @DrNavSidhu at the start of his talk on the use of peri-operative gastric ultrasound at #NSC25 Their editorial is free to read from @Anaes_Journal: https://t.co/nNFTf6ukQB
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A big โthank youโ to the @ASA_Australia #NSC25 organisers for letting me speak on my favourite topic. #GastricUltrasound #GLP1RA #anaesthesia #anesthesiology
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Surgeons and anesthesiologists in the USA have jointly produced a Principles of Good Acute Pain Medicine guide. @EMARIANOMD at #NSC25 #anaesthesia #anesthesiology @ASA_Australia
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