Rosie Baruah

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Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Edinburgh
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Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

#PresentationSkills

Look, you don't need people to turn their cameras on.

I've been speaking in public for 24 years - you cannot tell what an audience is thinking by looking at them.

Newsreaders, YouTubers, politicians - lots of people - speak to cameras without seeing their audience. It's a crutch you can learn to live without. (Not to mention #neurodiversity means cameras aren't necessarily helpful.)

You *do* need them on for group work but this is not the same thing.

Our paper just out today: we review the specific mechanistic implications of comorbidities, and the general impact of multimorbidity, in the different phases of Covid-19

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02156-9

Comorbidities, multimorbidity and COVID-19 - Nature Medicine

This Review discusses the effect of comorbidities and multimorbidity on the three mechanistically distinct phases of COVID-19, evaluating the evidence in the context of confounding factors and our evolving understanding of the disease.

Nature

This is an excellent excerpt from an upcoming memoir by Jim Down, an ICU and anaesthesia consultant

It’s paywalled but i think you can get one article for free. This would be a good one to get

I really think we are all one patient away from completely losing our faith in our clinical skills

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jim-down-covid-diary-of-a-doctor-i-was-paranoid-and-fearful-my-anxiety-hit-me-i-wanted-to-curl-up-into-a-ball-w6kfxvht5?shareToken=d18dd8478737bd5b60d8639f83dcc24c

I was a doctor through Covid. Then one case pushed me over the edge

Having survived two Covid waves, critical care consultant Dr Jim Down might have thought he’d escaped any mental health fallout – until one case pushed him over the edge

The Times

@RosieICM there need to be multiple market signals that people will pay for devices that work accurately in our patients

This is hopefully another such signal

AND we need to do the work to make sure the right information on accuracy is available to allow that taker to function

Just because you've had a nap today doesn't mean you can't have another nap today. There is no actual limit.

Happy new year to everybody!

Have very much enjoyed interacting in this fledgling #CriticalCare community- my New Year’s Resolution is to be a bit sore consistent a contributor

See you in 2023!

It's our last paper of the day for 2022 - chest tube management by Devon Anderson.

The entire 365 papers for the year are available on the website

We start again tomorrow....

https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of-the-day

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

Paper of the Day

Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2023

Miss any of the major critical care trials published during 2022?

We have them listed here

https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/hot-trials

Hot Trials

The best critical care trials of 2021, compiled in one place