Andrew Conway Morris

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Clinician Scientist in critical care. Research interests in neutrophil function and dysfunction, pneumonia diagnosis and management and research education.
Current chair of Infection Section ESICM.
Websitehttps://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-andrew-conway-morris
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ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3211-3216
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Nice review on severe community pneumonia from @[email protected]

➡️ 23% of patients require ICU

of these:
➡️ 24% require invasive ventilation
➡️ 20% require NIV

Mortality can be up to 40%

Stay up-to-date with the critical care literature
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Interesting review paper just out in Nature. "Heatwaves are anticipated to become more frequent, persistent and intense in nearly all inhabited regions, with trends amplified by soil drying in some areas, especially the mid-latitudes." https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00371-z
Prediction and projection of heatwaves - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Heatwaves are occurring with increasing frequency and intensity, necessitating prediction so as to minimize loss of life and other impacts. This Review outlines heatwave predictive capabilities at daily to decadal timescales, and discusses heatwave projections with anthropogenic warming.

Nature

The High Court has ruled that the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has acted and is continuing to act unlawfully by failing in her legal duty to provide for the essential living needs of asylum seekers. This follows evidence that she ignored advice from her own officials that the current rate of £40.85 per week is no longer sufficient to meet basic living https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/high-court-declares-home-secretary-acting-unlawfully-failing-meet-asylum-seekers-essential

#AsylumSeekers #Destitution #CostOfLivingCrisis

High Court declares that the Home Secretary is acting unlawfully by failing to meet asylum seekers’ essential living needs and protect them from destitution in the cost of living crisis | Doughty Street Chambers

The High Court has today ruled that the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has acted and is continuing to act unlawfully by failing in her legal duty to provide for the essential living needs of asy

STOP THE EXECUTION OF IRANIAN FOOTBALLER AMIR NASR- AZADANI - Sign the Petition! https://chng.it/C4Nzd62v via @UKChange
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@jopo_dr @Mozza @maheshramanan +1 to that on bedside inflammatory stratification that guides therapy (not even just on ICU). Quite a long way off still sadly, but in a way that personalised medicine is broadly the way things are heading.
Without our nursing colleagues, the “NHS will cease to function, especially in ICU where patients require round the clock 1:1 care due to the severity of conditions we're faced with on a daily basis.”
Position statement from UKCCNA & endorsed by @ICS_Updateshttps://t.co/Cm5zEvaoNt
RCN Strike action and critical care nursing: a position statement from UKCCNA

My thoughts and support is with the awesome #NHS #nurses who have rightfully taken strike action over pay and work conditions. Incidentally I was at work on the ICU, reminded again how important safe staffing is for patient care. Thank you all for taking a stance.

Today's Paper of the Day is by Pia De Stefano on nonconvulsive status epilepticus following cardiac arrest
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of-the-day

#criticalcare #intensivecare #ICU #FOAMed #FOAMEDcc #MedTwitter

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Early Estimates of Bivalent mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness...

This report describes the effectiveness of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines for prevention of COVID-19-associated hospitalization among adults ages 65 years or older who did not have a weakened immune system and who were hospitalized with COVID-19-like illness.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HT @dynarski

“Accessing U.S. data for research just got easier
New online portal streamlines requests for massive data sets at 16 federal agencies”

https://www.science.org/content/article/accessing-u-s-data-research-just-got-easier

Accessing U.S. data for research just got easier

New online portal streamlines requests for massive data sets at 16 federal agencies