Leon du Toit

Well done to the African Perioperative Research Group APORG @AfricanSOS @GH_PeriopCare @EECCGlobal

Dr. @SunnyLouMD was awarded first place in the Best Clinical Research Abstract competition at #WCA2024! Her research on surgical transfusion risk prediction has the potential to enhance patient outcomes & streamline healthcare resources. anesthesiology.wustl.edu/lou-receives-b…

@alex_torborg Congratulations, Alex!

Very pleased to announce that ASOS-Paeds has been published in The Lancet. Well done and thank you to the ASOS-Paeds investigators. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ioi4_3CjG8u…

Tim Cook on the data we need to collect on airway management #WCA2024

We are reminded that while airway disasters are rare, aspiration remains a problem, we are bad at doing (=documenting) airway assessment, blind techniques like Fastrach LMA have low success rate, we need to support airway databases.

Excited about The Law according to the Law 😄 #WCA2024

@BruceBiccard Loved the EarthCast Podcast; can’t wait to get my hands on the book. Congrtulations, Bruce!

I received my first print copies of 'Safer Surgery for Africa' today. It is super exciting to actually hold the book. Thanks to all of you who got me here. The print version should be on Amazon early next week, and the Kindle version late next week. I will give you the heads up.

Magic gloves

Improving surgical healthcare services in LMICs should concern you even if the “hole isn’t at your end”

Results from the POISE-3 trial published in Annals of IM: Hypotension-Avoidance Versus Hypertension-Avoidance Strategies in Noncardiac Surgery: An International Randomized Controlled Trial acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

#ASOS Surgical Risk Calculator is now available on the Google Play store. Good for #Surgical Risk stratification in Africa. Thanks to @Net4PCc and @3tewodros and @Mr_FitsK for supporting the app development play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Congratulations to @ChristellaAlph1 and her family. Such a wonderful celebration of important #perioperative medicine work.

@SPAQIedu Unexpected Thrombocytopenia in the preop assessment (even if it is mild) - think could this be cirrhosis? Check the FIB-4 index. And consider fibroscan (or eq.)

Dr. Kay Johnson providing insights about surgical patients with cirrhosis. #Periop2023

VOCAL-Penn: best risk score for surgery in cirrhosis? Don’t just go with Child-Pugh. #Periop2023

Welcome to ⁦@SPAQIedu⁩ ⁦@PeriopSummit⁩ 2023 Orlando! “Let’s get this party started.”

To all the divers.

Important work by BASEL-PMI team showing adverse long-term outcomes after postop myocardial injury, irrespective of etiology and MI classification. Once again evidence that categorizing as "type II" and not addressing is detrimental to patients academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva…

High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I thresholds (Abbott) to identify myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery: a cohort study onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-…

It turns out the relationship between perioperative benzos and postoperative delirium is not as clear as many think! More research required!@BJAJournals⁩ ⁦@DataPartyInc⁩⁦@PHRIresearch⁩ ⁦@ebelleycote⁩⁦@RichardWhitloc2⁩ #bfree bjanaesthesia.org.uk/article/S0007-…