Alex Psirides
@psirides
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Co-director @WellingtonICU. Aeromedical retrieval @lifeflightnz. Once ventilated a chimpanzee. https://t.co/ziR6f5C3W2
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined July 2009
By ‘before I go’ I mean to Bluesky where things just seem nicer. I’m not terminally ill. Same name.
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So go download it in your second or third language too. 80,000 people seem to have made the effort so why haven’t you?.
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One final post before I go. The Managing Deteriorating Patients book has been translated into Portuguese so it’s now available in 4 languages and still, despite offers otherwise, completely free:
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Oh, and this.
Interested in joining our senior medical team in Wellington? We have a rare opportunity available for an ICU specialist, working full-time for our service. FCICM & MCNZ registration required. More details & the ability to apply online here:
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The cognitive dissonance in NAP7 makes my head hurt. Especially ‘duration of CPR >1hr’ in a patient who was not for CPR.
🔓Peri-operative decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation among adults as reported to the 7th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. @JerryPNolan @jas_soar @adk300 @IainMoppett @drrichstrong @emirakur @doctimcook . 🔗
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides Smart people, especially nurses, say we need to work on our culture. We can’t compete with Australian money, but….
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides (Sidenote: yep, Brexit. Before 2016/17 the NHS relied on EU nurses. After Brexit, this source disappeared and inc….
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides The majority of these nurses putting their documents together to get to Australia are internationally qualified.….
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides And many of our new nurses are not staying. Australian data show large increases in ANZ nurses granted registrati….
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides But they aren’t coming directly from India – it appears the vast majority are leaving terrible conditions in the….
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides Where did they come from? (And importantly, for later, where do they go?).Data show the majority of new IQNs ente….
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides However, in 2022/2023, the numbers of internationally qualified nurses (IQNs) entering Aotearoa suddenly soared a….
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides Our nursing workforce was second only to Ireland in being overseas-trained in 2021 (I don’t like the OECD’s “fore….
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RT @CarlShuker: @psirides Part 3: this is some really innovative stuff. 1: nurses coming into NZ. In 2021/2022 the NZNO was screaming for m….
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RT @CarlShuker: Because of our deteriorating patient programme, led by @psirides' hard, hard work, you’re less likely to get a cardiac arre….
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Plus @CarlShuker is a genius and anything healthcare related he writes should be avidly consumed. Oh, and he has a movie out:
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If you work in or use healthcare in NZ, or are ever likely to need healthcare in NZ, here's the current state of NZ healthcare. And if you have nothing to do with NZ, here's a guide on how to assess your health system. So, pretty much everyone should read this.
Buckle up. The last four years have been turbulent. What’s it done to our healthcare system? Thread on highlights of our new Window on Quality below, with graphs and analysis galore. 1/26
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RT @WellingtonICU: The modules are written by experts after national consultation with ICUs across the country. They can be accessed throug….
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RT @WellingtonICU: The national EPICCNZ - eLearning Programme Induction to Critical Care - has just launched. These 10 modules are for sta….
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