Alastair Baird

@coollyndz Yes and no. It’s not about sustaining PAO2 to spend the rest of the flight at cruising altitude (you’re right, you're pissing in the wind at 38000ft), it’s about prolonging TUC just long enough to allow the pilot to descend to a more physiologically conducive altitude.

In Palma awaiting the aeroplane safety brief so I can stand up and give them a lecture on the alveolar gas equation and why an o2 mask for a loss of altitude is useless.

@CatrionaDavis I will defer to a native Gàidhlig speaker but is it perhaps more like “wee mousey”?

@CatrionaDavis It’s the diminutive suffix - i.e. a wee mouse

@JoshThorburn27 Excellent news Josh!

Absolutely BUZZING to have accepted a training post in Emergency Medicine (dream specialty) in the West of Scotland (dream region)!!! Hard work pays off! 🎉

@TaraBash18 Love this! Happy kidneyversary!

100 times this. Concentration of risk in one area is unsafe for patients and staff.

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@ross_moy Same, found it this morning.

Fantastic flight out to the west of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on ⁦@scotambhelimed5⁩ checkout the Aurora Borealis under Night Vision!

@nickpheath @StephenHearns1 Leave clothes on but ensure pockets empty and zips are out of the way for binder. Don’t want to risk inducing hypothermia in your potentially bleeding patient.

Hi @StephenHearns1 I’m doing some work with ski patrol at the moment and wondered what you advise in MRTs about splints and pelvic binders next to skin vs clothes in extreme cold. Any links or advice would be much appreciated

Any other prehospital services using measuring K+ & oesophageal temps on scene for prognostication using HOPE score please get in touch. Keen to assess how widespread use is for exposure hypothermia, avalanche & water incidents.

Teams all standing down. Male has been traced safe and well. Fantastic response of several teams and over 40 MRT members. 👍🏻 @AberdeenMRT @TaysideMRT @TaysidePolice MRT @NorthEPolice MRT Time for a 😴

@ali1m @jennjennthehen @loki1706 @scrumley Affectionately known as Pipe Street.

@neiljshepherd @RyanMarino can sleep easy now

Got some new gloves at work that will finally end the scourge of fentanyl exposure. We’ve lost too many good staff to accidental overdose through skin exposure. #fentanyl #ppe

Congratulations to first prize winner Dr Rachel Lawrie, Foundation Doctor, Ninewells Hospital who received £250 prize from SOC for her poster ‘Visual Acuity Measurement in the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Project’ #SOCautumn21

@CSim93 Have recommended to crews calling our prof to prof line before.

Are there any pre hospital colleagues who would consider using/already do use nebulised salbutamol in a highly suspected hyperkalemia? Suggested it last night and I was stared at like I had suggested we IO someone in the face.

@philipmshort @dunfermlinep So sorry to read this Phil. Our thoughts and condolences are with you all.

Husband, Father and Grandfather. You will be sorely missed by us all. Thank you for all the kind messages of support and good wishes that we have received and to the @dunfermlinep for such a lovely article. Best Wishes The Short Family dunfermlinepress.com/news/19477198.…

@Medic_Russell @clare_eliza @DrBenLovell Hb 71? Give some saline to dilute it down to 69. NOW you can give the blood 👍🏼

@clare_eliza @DrBenLovell There’s a trial that showed worse outcomes with blood resuscitation if Hb >70/80 though! I don’t know whether it was subdivided into the oozy ulcers and the OH GOD IT’S EVERYWHERE variceals as the latter may behave more like a traumatic bleed.

I see PPIs for upper GI bleeds have suddenly started working again

@QEUHEDWellbeing @AliCrawley02