Chris Gray

@teaandmedals @YorksAmbulance @ResusCouncilUK Poor Bernard

No rest for the wicked! Back from Edinburgh and straight into day 1 of another @YorksAmbulance @ResusCouncilUK ALS course. A room full of eager paramedics upskilling their #ALS skills.

Must-read post from Stevan @stemlyns #FOAMed stemlynsblog.org/design-as-repa…

📣 Five days of strike action starts today. These strikes could have been averted, if @Wesstreeting had a credible offer for us to consider. ✊ Find your nearest picket: bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines Stick Together. Strike Together. Win Together.

@cathjw £4.91 online as well, a hell of a markup!

Why the NHS is skint in one picture. £8.62 for the ONLY purchasable option for crayons for a children’s waiting room. 🤦🏻‍♀️. Fortunately staff spend their time cutting them in half to make them go a little further.

🚨 NEW GUIDELINE 🚨 We're delighted to announce the publication of our new sports cardiology guideline, endorsed by @CRY_UK - check it out here: ow.ly/NsoK50Vhj88 Read our blog: ow.ly/tipX50Vhj89 Thanks to our authors: @oxborough77 @KPGeorge66 @robcoops82

@walsh_joe They didn't do a great job getting it right first time did they

RCEM should be directly involved in any guideline designed to direct EM physicians in how they practice.

Of people who required non-immediate care in an A&E department in England between 21 March 2021 and 30 April 2022, and did not die during their A&E attendance, 1.3% died within 30 days of returning home or be admitted to inpatient care. ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Guys I got us a new recruiting poster #emergencymedicine

Our @HelipadHELP sponsored critical care vehicle is our tonight crewed by Critical Care Paramedic @oggie272, Doctor @cgraydoc and new Trustee Dane in support of @NWAmbulance We wish them a safe night #volunteers #charity #Merseyside #Manchester #Lancashire #Cheshire @BASICS_HQ

Someone really tried hard with this acronym eh? (It gets a composite BEAUTY/CHEATING score of -3, if you only count the first half of the study name that is! bmj.com/content/349/bm…)

Surgeons wouldn’t operate in a broom cupboard Dermatologists wouldn’t run clinic in the canteen ICU wouldn’t ventilate patients in the car park So why do we expect that Emergency care can be provided on corridors?

The SHED study is published! Thanks to the 100s of contributors around the UK... This paper raises a lot of questions - how will it influence your work? What post test probability of SAH and aneurysmal SAH are you, and your patients, comfortable with? emj.bmj.com/content/early/…

Colleagues both in hospital and out of hospital. Doctors @cgraydoc and @drriw both work together as Consultants in Emergency Medicine at Manchester Royal Infirmary & the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Outside of their paid job, both volunteer their time for us.

Top 5 reasons why you would need to perform an arterial blood gas: 1. There aren’t any 2. Do a VBG instead 3. Or a capillary gas 4. Stop torturing patients 5. No seriously please stop it

@dieracg This dressing 😢

Anaesthesia is not a vascular access service and you cannot get good at “difficult” cannulas by not doing them. Also, paediatricians and oncologists are very good at cannulation: call them instead #tipsfornewdocs Finally, do not do this:

We're on strike today, fighting for #PayRestoration. Watch doctors on the picket lines explain why. #DoctorsStrike

We are all SATH

Dr Robert Laurenson, "Rishi Sunak has no clear plan.. He has no action.. Rishi Sunak has been the man who has blocked talks on pay for 20 months" @RobLaurensonD4P "Rishi Sunak is spending 35% more on Physician Associates around the country.. In 1 in 8 hospitals there is unlawful practice being done to patients by physician associates" "It's time for any government in power to put down their rhetoric, get around the table and actually present a credible offer for pay restoration"

Fabulous listening to leading multi professional researchers on hot topics in #criticalcare #SOA24 @ICS_updates @ACCLiverpool Currently listening to @gazkitch discussing trials examining ventilators strategies on ICU #CoReCCT #consciousproning @NIHRresearch