Ex-polar medic/husky vet, now obstetric anaesthetist made in Scotland and Yorkshire, who works in dreamy spires fenlands

East, England
Joined January 2022
Jim Bamber retweeted
Explore our online archive—celebrating the people who helped shape modern obstetric anaesthesia and maternity care. Visit: bit.ly/49p8tay #ObAnes
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@LateralTilt presents what’s new in #ERAC at @OAAinfo’s #3DC25 - a full #OBAnes thread will follow, but take the conclusions and references as a teaser?
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High neuraxial block in obstetrics: are we only seeing the tip of the iceberg? The presence of local anaesthetic in the epidural space makes the effect of subsequent intrathecal drug administration less predictable. #anaesthesia #obstetrics #pain #MedTwitter @AllisonLeeNYC doi.org/10.1111/anae.70045
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Don’t start surgery before the anaesthetist says go. shorturl.at/H7Sdk
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The complete PRO position: “Sterile gowns SHOULD be mandatory for spinal #OBAnes” from @LateralTilt at #OAA25ASM - a #OBAnes 🧵
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@LateralTilt kicks off the final session of #OAA25ASM by presenting the PRO side of the “Gowns should be mandatory for spinal #OBAnes” - a conflict of interest?
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Probably the crux of @LateralTilt’s argument in favour of mandatory sterile gowns use - would you want YOUR (or your child’s) spinal done with a gown? Would it matter to you? Or is the risk negligible? #OAA25ASM #OBAnes
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A solid summary on the risk of CSF infection with NO sterile gown at #OBAnes spinal. Is the possibility of increased risk acceptable? (We don’t put spinals in below 50, hematology do) And, if our central ethos is improved care - avoiding preventable harm- why is it? #OAA25ASM
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Here I think @LateralTilt makes a good point - role modelling/social influence - I only stopped gowning once I joined a unit in 🇨🇦. No one else was doing it, except for COVID. I wonder how much the pandemic shapes this debate? We all value asepsis or none do? #OAA25ASM #OBAnes
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Financial implications: the organic banana rate (Cesarean section costs 12k organic bananas) #OAA25ASM #OBAnes
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@antonchau1 provides background in CSE vs DPE debate: mixed bag of results. What’s new? Zang et al found NO difference between CSE & DPE with composite quality measure. Where to now? @Ron_George & @ruthi_landau - more CSE. @noolslucas & @LateralTilt - nuance is NB. #OAA25ASM
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Having trained #OBAnes to provide anaesthetic care can make a difference to maternal outcomes authors.elsevier.com/a/1km1x… @OAAinfo @mbrrace
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Worried X will get more raucous after November 5th? More difficult to have a conversation amidst the din? Too much noise not enough signal? Try ‘Twitter circa 10y ago’ lookalike on Bluesky. It’s a quiet room now but slowly filling up @lateraltilt.bsky.social
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'Quality', 'Measure', 'Metric', 'Indicator' - what do these all really mean? Read our #BJAEd article by @LateralTilt and @PervezSultanMD to clearly understand the above and read about QI in Obs Anaesthesia. #Obs @OaaNews @AllisonLeeNYC bjaed.org/article/S2058-5349…
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Why US maternal mortality data or its trends 2003-2018 cannot be trusted pca.st/episode/4d3856b7-d212…
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Interested in QI in #OBAnes? We hope that you might find our @BjaEducation article useful. @PervezSultanMD authors.elsevier.com/a/1jKzi…
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One in three mothers endure traumatic births. It happened to me “..for the next year, every Monday at 7.32am, I would stop whatever I was doing and cry. My daughter was born at 8.45am. But 7.32am?…” thetimes.co.uk/article/18de2…
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“That was when the anaesthetist finally administered an epidural that worked” #OBAnes is essential for quality maternity care as demonstrated by @rjharrison79 important @bmj_latest study
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