I will always be incredibly grateful for our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). This drug that keeps my tumour load down so I can live an (almost) normal life and without having to worry where to find an extra $78k per year. #Auspol #Medsky

#ansky today’s #periop learning - SGLTi’s - you can be a bit less cautious about stopping them periop now: @bjaeducation.bsky.social www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S000...

Perioperative management of patients taking sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors: Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) multidisciplinary consensus statement

The perioperative management of patients using sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) remains controversial. The US Food and Drug Administration currently recommends stopping SGLT2is for ...

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36 degrees in the UK today. Drill baby drill.

Alistair McNarry highlights the central role of the airway assistant in the DAS 2025 unanticipated difficult intubation guidelines. #GAMC26

Helen Harker talks about the paediatric difficult airway - how to identify. #GAMC26 #AnSky

Interesting question from the audience at #GAMC26 should we routinely put in a Salem/sump tube at the end of the procedure seeing as aspiration at extubation/emergence is just as or more common than at induction? Tim Cook and Kariem E-B agree. #AnSky

Next at #GAMC26 Tim Cook talks about RSI. First, coronial inquests have pointed to lack of guidelines in the age of TIVA etc. #AnSky

At #GAMC26 first up Kariem El-Boghdadly Is the Glp1 agonist response to pulmonary aspiration excessive?

Hear hear Kon!

Kon Karapanagiotidis@kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pauline #Hanson might hate our country but I love Australia and I’m a proud Australian. I’m also proud our First Nations and Multicultural communities and our shared contributions in making this country one of greatest in the world. We are stronger together.

Always leave one phrase from your lecture on a whiteboard for the next class.

It's official! The SNaPP trial @anzcactn.bsky.social findings are out, published today @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social, a four year trial with principal investigator @katy-skier.bsky.social.

Global study highlights hidden pandemic of lung complications - ANZCA

A “hidden pandemic” of lung complications after surgery has been highlighted by an international study led by Australian anaesthetists that has found how a newer muscle relaxant reversal drug can help...

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I was under the impression this was just a regular school outing. However, the rapidity that the consent form escalates is making me wonder…!

Take note Australian media. The saturation of media about Pauline Hansons One Nation this week has been very similar. #AusPol

@kaybell27.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Anyone still questioning why Farage's Reform did so well? The majority of the British public have no idea how politics work in this country, they listen to our press and its lies and believe every word. If there is to be real change we have to take on our media.

It’s not every day your one of your dearest friends becomes the president of a major medical specialty college. Congratulations Dr Tanya Selak aka @gonggasgirl.bsky.social President of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists @anzca.bsky.social So proud of you #AnSky

#Asm26Akl Time to reconsider our fear of conversion of regional anaesthetic to GA during LSCS if mother is feeling pain. Video laryngoscopy is a game changer imho! @anzca.bsky.social

Out today. A 10-year cohort analysis of coronial data of anaphylaxis deaths. What happens first, bronchospasm or cardiovascular collapse? Open access #MedSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Gilbert Brown prize! Supporting young Anaesthetists. Chaired by @hypoxicchicken.medsky.social 🤗 @anzca.bsky.social #asm26akl

The 2026 ANZCA ASM is just around the corner – will we see you in Auckland? It's not too late to register, or to add workshops and activities to your itinerary. Just visit asm.anzca.edu.au We can’t wait to see you there! #ASM26AKL

The very act of struggling with a medical condition can lead to trauma, as well as getting a dreaded diagnosis of a chronic or life-threatening illness. Seeking diagnosis is also a factor because it takes an average of 8 to 10 years to be diagnosed with a rare disease: www.ihi.org/library/blog...

So let me get this straight… The guy who won a FIFA peace prize started a war that increased the price of fuel so high that nobody could afford to go to the FIFA World Cup in his own country. 🤡

Isn’t it weird how nearly every other country doesn’t need an entire separate army/multiple agencies to protect their head of state. It’s almost like; the number of weapons in the country is out of control; people aren’t keen on the president.

Chemotherapy but reframed as a TV show. Instead of cycles and days try “I’m on season 6 episode 12”

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

A lovely thing about having an exchange student is the treats they bring. TIL that Colombians liked the corners of this one chocolate cake(?) so much they now just sell the corners - Esquinas in Spanish.

New anaesthesiologist: “I’ve been looking for theatre nine and three-quarters for hours, where is it” Surgeon: “Just walk past theatre 8 and then charge with one of the scrub trollies at the wall near the sign, Harry…” #Ansky #Medsky #Anaesthesia #HarryPotter

The PUMA Guidelines recommend evaluating at least seven administered breaths to confirm tracheal tube placement. But why? It is unclear why a positive trajectory in amplitude would be expected to reverse during the fifth, sixth or seventh breaths. #AnSky doi.org/10.1111/anae...

Not sure if this is widely known about and I have missed it, but here's a link anyway: www.gov.uk/government/c... "..seeks views on the draft General Medical Council Order 2026, which would reform how the (GMC) regulates medical practitioners, physician associates and anaesthesia associates.."

Reforming the General Medical Council legislative framework

Seeks views on the draft General Medical Council Order 2026.

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Our latest SNAP3 paper is out: What impact does #delirium have on outcomes after surgery in older people? www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S000... #WDAD #AnSky #SurgSky #GeriSky #SurgSky @rcoa-cri.bsky.social @bjajournals.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 1/n…🧵

Postoperative outcomes in older patients with postoperative delirium in the UK: SNAP-3, a snapshot observational study

Delirium occurs in about 6% of older surgical patients and more frequently in those who are older or frail or undergo urgent surgery. It is associated with adverse postoperative outcomes. However, it ...

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#SNaPP RCT will study the risk of post-op pulmonary complications and death after reversal with #sugammadex vs #neostigmine in elective/expedited thoracic & abdominal surgical patients #ClinicalTrialProtocol https://www.bjaopen.org/article/S2772-6096(26)00005-5/fulltext

Anyone here coming to GAMC soon? Better get in quick! @gamclondon.bsky.social #Ansky t.co/wMz5RS0PzV