Caroline Dew

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UMass Memorial reinstates staff mask mandate after 'dramatic increase' in COVID cases

The hospital says that if the trend continues, it may need to require masks for anyone who enters the building.

CBS Boston

Wow! Amazing lineup!
One day seminar in Melbourne, Australia.
In person, or via zoom.

“Balancing Head & Heart in Healthcare”

“This unique event is designed to bring together doctors and academics who are seeking to re-engage their head and heart in healthcare, enabling them to lead with courage, authenticity, and compassion while fostering personal growth and the development of others.”
“All disciplines, all career stages, all welcome.”

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1084610

Balancing Head & Heart in Healthcare

Join us for an inspiring one-day seminar, the Mercy Perinatal seminar, dedicated to exploring the vital theme of "Balancing Head & Heart in Healthcare." This unique event is designed to bring together doctors and academics who are seeking to re-engage their head and heart in healthcare, enabling them to lead with courage, authenticity, and compassion while fostering personal growth and the development of others.

In COVID-19 we could usually manage the ARDS, the clots, the SIRS & MODS. But the Aspergillosis was devastating.

👇New research by Nicole Sarden & team: "We discovered that influenza and COVID-19 destroy a previously unknown natural immunity that we need to resist invasive fungal infections,"

#MedMastodon

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230112/New-insights-into-deadly-fungal-invasion-in-people-with-compromised-immune-systems.aspx

🔗https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abq6682

New insights into deadly fungal invasion in people with compromised immune systems

Fungi such as Aspergillus are so common in our surroundings that we breathe in hundreds to thousands of spores every day.

News-Medical.net

“The effect of music on delirium, pain, sedation and anxiety in patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit.” Journal: Intensive & Critical Care Nursing

🎶🎵🎼 group had lower:
-incidence of delirium
-severity of delirium
-number of days ventilated
-pain
-level of sedation
-anxiety

🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0964339722001513

#ICU #CriticalCare #MedMastodon #NurseMastodon #delirium

Ruptured ascending aortic aneurysm.
😔. Badness.

Sad to hear that his symptoms in days leading up to it were dismissed as bronchitis.

Grant Wahl’s own words:
"It had gotten pretty bad in terms of like the tightness in my chest, tightness, pressure. Feeling pretty hairy, bad,"

Never ignore chest pain & feeling of impending doom.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/sports-reporter-grant-wahl-died-of-an-aortic-aneurysm-rupture-at-world-cup-wife-says/68709767-ab51-4954-a1f6-4618779c161a

Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm rupture at World Cup, wife says

<p>The widow of sports journalist Grant Wahl, who died while covering the World Cup last week, reveals he died of an aortic aneurysm that ruptured.</p>

9News

We have a ‘Negative test to leave iso’ policy in our house.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this 👇.

I firmly believe public health advice should change to a similar message.

Justin Morgenstern (first10em.com) with a review of ‘that’ mask study.

👇🔗
https://first10em.com/the-now-infamous-but-not-very-helpful-n95-trial-loeb-2022/

The now infamous but not very helpful N95 trial (Loeb 2022) - First10EM

A critical appraisal of the N95 RCT Loeb 2022. Short answer- this trial had too many flaws to allow us to draw valid conclusions.

First10EM

More great work from the RMIT @ABCFactCheck team as they debunk Died Suddenly.

“CheckMate takes a detailed look at the latest piece of anti-vax propaganda, a conspiracy-laden film viewed millions of times online.”

The great pity being the debunking of misinformation doesn’t go nearly as ‘viral’ as the conspiracy theory itself 😕

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-02/fact-check-debunking-died-suddenly/101720550

Seizures, deaths, depopulation: CheckMate looks into claims made in new anti-vax film Died Suddenly

A new conspiracy-laden film that baselessly alleges COVID-19 vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths has been viewed more than 10 million times in 10 days.  

ABC News

‘The Conversation’ is on Mastodon!

@theconversationau

Lidia Morawska, Guy B Marks and Jason Monty in The Medical Journal of Australia - MJA

“Healthy indoor air is our fundamental need: the time to act is now.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/mja2.51768

"Inadequate management of indoor air quality may not be obvious, but the disastrous consequences certainly are"