Tessa Kennedy

Sepsis but with tighter jeans…

#pedsICU and #ED intubators- free link to 📖 of >1000 intubations of infants. Weight predicts ETT length for oral and nasal tubes. 🙏@STRS_Evelina & @KingsCollegeLon med students who looked at ALOT of X-rays! Retweet to share formula. authors.elsevier.com/a/1hDgp55Cs8NHi

How to use technology to make prescribing infinitely more hazardous. “Just type the drug name” they said. “It will make it so easy…” #digitalhealth #MedTwitter #prescribing #medicalerror #paracetawtf

Today was a tough one. Little baby girl comes in for “recurrent UTIs”. Parent is frustrated because she’s been to ER multiple times this year when these symptoms started where she’s given antibiotics & sent home. But symptoms always come back - belly pain, pain in urination,…

We thank the reviewers for their suggestions and believe they have substantially improved the paper

First job outside the NHS and this cutlery drawer at work made me scream, if you know you know

@michelleatchi15 I’m so, so sorry to hear that Michelle. Unimaginable. What a beautiful name for your girl, Caillin.

The light in our life has gone out. My beautiful and only daughter died yesterday. She never woke up. It was so utterly unexpected and my husband and my hearts are shattered. I really don’t know what to do.

So excited to finally see the @healthgovau National Medical Workforce Strategy (NMWS) released today. Agree with @ama_media that the devil may be in implementation detail, but 🤞 good news for rural health and unaccredited training. health.gov.au/sites/default/… Go team! @amacdt

84% deception.

@yasmin_poole Cartoon by Judy Horacek

Why we mustn’t forget the need for #health reform after acute stress of #omicron wave passes - “Remember how it feels now… the fault lines have been exposed but it’s been building for years.” Thanks @claski

“Living with COVID” should have meant greater investments in healthcare from government. Instead “living with COVID” seems to be nothing but a vague ideology with no plan for the consequences and in spite of the warnings from the health system

Went to the beach today and this dickhead sitting nearby wasn’t wearing sunscreen and so everyone around him got burnt. So disrespectful. #personalresponsibility

Fascinating. Working in operating theatres has been mind boggling in terms of the plastic waste. Glimmers of hope… but we HAVE to get real about #sustainability in #health!! @DocsEnvAus @ama_media

👏 👏 trainee voices should not be tokenised. Some long overdue changes to come I hope. #medtwitter @RANZCP

The anesthesiology residency interview