Perfect example of the Spandex Principle TM. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I imagine intubating a manikin wouldn't be too dissimilar from a human given the setup time.

From @urethroplasty.bsky.social and me have a safe transition to 2026 and a Happy New Year. Looking forward to more of the wonderful community of #AnSky and #MedSky. Thanks for all the positive vibes this year, I have really appreciated it.

@an-leavy.bsky.social @maffygirl.medsky.social @asharao.bsky.social @lovenotgreed.bsky.social @drhilary.bsky.social ‘spread peace’

Happy Christmas everyone!! It’s lovely and hot here and I made this cheesecake because today is our son’s birthday. #MedSky #AnSky With @urethroplasty.bsky.social#MedSky

@an-leavy.bsky.social @maffygirl.medsky.social @asharao.bsky.social @lovenotgreed.bsky.social @drhilary.bsky.social Happy Christmas to all who celebrate and rest up to those who don’t. 👍🏽🙏

You get on a bus in a city where you know so few people….and who is on the bus? The person who you are having lunch with tomorrow !! Such a small world 🤣 With @urethroplasty.bsky.social #Brisbane #MedSky #AnSky

It can be difficult when the 'no algorithm' doesn't show you all the posts. However, I've just discovered I can add @pieterpeach.com 's 'Anaesthetists' list as a Feed, so can now follow that easily! 👍🏻🙂

This one is better bsky.app/profile/did:...

@an-leavy.bsky.social @maffygirl.medsky.social @asharao.bsky.social @lovenotgreed.bsky.social @drhilary.bsky.social @sidherian.bsky.social hope you are all ok Jacarandas are today’s offering. ‘End of their blossom)

@an-leavy.bsky.social @maffygirl.medsky.social @asharao.bsky.social @lovenotgreed.bsky.social @drhilary.bsky.social whirling into a windy summer

I have had a rest and will return in the new year. #MedSkyDebate will return but I will need help with topics. Currently in Brisvegas on holidays swimming in our son’s apartment pool and drinking Aperols Spritz. Merry Christmas everyone xx

I keep getting logged out of BlueSky and it’s a pain to re log in. It’s endless authentication emails. I’m back on the bird for now. I really have tried to get this going, but I think I have not succeeded, it’s not working. This is it for me and #MedSkyDebate for now xx

I’m back on the bird for #WAMM2025 That seems to be the main platform for the meeting. Met @airwaymxacademy.bsky.social and his wife for the first time. Utterly charming!!! #MedSky #AnSky

typewriter can write Shakespeare, then enough managers with enough developers they shout at can ruin any website. Almost need a #MedSkyArgument feed rather than just @maffygirl.medsky.social's weekly debates.

I am off to Florence for #WAMM25 so will be travelling for the next few days. There will be plenty of topics for #MedSkyDebate later next week. If you are going please come and say hello. #MedSky #AnSky

Anyone going to #WAMM2025? Please come and say hello to me. Let’s get some selfies going. #MedSky #AnSky

Cath lab and IR are probably the most challenging environments to give an anaesthetic.

Thanks a lot. There are so many benefits (environmental/ costs/ teamwork and communication), but our IC 'specialists' don't sector get it.

Germany here. I have loathed white coats for, like, forever. Never understood this. Infection control is absolutely right. But surgery, medicine, all of them just cannot and will not let go. They'll stroll through our ICU and touch anything with their sleeves and not even notice.

In our facility, Hygiene was policing that for two weeks in a row. Since then, everybody who wears them, basically old people and heads of department, started to leave them outside.

Maybe we need @dieworkwear.bsky.social in the conversation

It was set up as a ‘dry lab’ area, so no lab coats allowed. But you had to spot your samples onto a steel grid to ‘shoot the laser’ at them. Cobalt blue angora wool traces got into my Neiserria protein samples (the MALDI detects down to femtogram amounts). The trace returned ‘rabbit’ as well my bug!

Oh do tell Mel xx #MedSkyDebate.

White coats are for the lab. Medics only need scrubs or surgical gowns in theatre. Lab coats (Howie style) are specific to PC2 lab work to protect the wearer from things like chemical spills - and to protect them from dunking their sleeves into liquid cultures of pathogenic bacteria!

Great engagement on this #MedSkyDebate topic. Feeling shy? Don’t we’d love to hear from you! 😊

Of me squeezing through the CT to get to the patient! 😅😂😂

I wrote about this back in 2017! insidestory.org.au/do-clothes-m...

#MedSkyDebate Do you wear a white coat? We have been bare below the elbows for 20 years in Australia. Infection control has vetoed them #MedSky https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/microorganisms/microorganisms-12-02659/article_deploy/microorganisms-12-02659.pdf?version=1734775719

Onset apparently almost immediate, peaking day two post spinal jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

My instinct is to say "it depends" but I think @bobfunn.bsky.social's point is very important and not something I'd have thought of, especially if it's equivocal between GA v spinal.

Very wise words Bob.

This weeks #MedSkyDebate was a clinical dilemma I encountered recently. Is it safe to use spinal anaesthesia for someone with a history of Guillain Barre Syndrome? I thought no but there is a study that disputes this. What do you think? #AnSky #MedSky

It’s World Anaesthesia Day today. Be nice to your anaesthetist; we have all the good drugs.

#MedSkyDebate is back this weekend. I have changed the topic to one that I am curious about. Will be interested in what you think.

Happy World Anaesthesia Day to all!! I happened to have a baby via LSCS this very day 32 years ago. Looked after safely by an anaesthetist I knew I was in #SafeHands #AnSky #MedSky

Sorry it’s #MedSkyDebate. It has been quite the week for us. Sepsis can really come from nowhere. Back better than ever soon xx

I am going to delay the #MedSkyDeabate for another week. @urethroplasty.bsky.social my husband has been ill in hospital. He is home now but needs a bit of attention. Hopefully I will be back in action next weekend. Stay safe all xx

Having surgery under anaesthesia can be a bit daunting, especially if it’s your first time, but your anaesthetist is trained to keep you safe. Join us on 16 October to celebrate National Anaesthesia Day #NAD25. Find out more: bit.ly/42lfpB8 #AnSky #insafehands

No way!!!

One of the most important editorials about children by one of Australia's living treasures - "..the world has forgotten that no child is an enemy, unless you make them so." please read and share - please adc.bmj.com/content/arch...

#MedSkyDebate delayed until tomorrow. I am having a busy weekend day at work. It will be worth the wait 💕

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1/9 So a story about Anil and me🧵👇 We were both senior trainees at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, which is famous as the place where Archie McIndoe did his pioneering work in graft surgery on RAF pilots with severe burn injuries ('The Guinea Pig Club')

Are you going to #WAMM2025?? Love to buy you a beer

The weekend #MedSkyDebate is one that will surprise you. I have decided to up the angst and ask a very important question. You will have to wait to find out. I am sure it will bring all our USA colleagues out and engaging. Out Saturday Australian time #AnSky #MedSky

I've never heard of a connection with warming the patient before today - interesting, thanks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m a nay. No clear benefit with plenty of potential SE. A lot were using it with remi/dexmed/prop, and it just seemed like an organised offensive to disrupt haemodynamics for the benefit of “analgesia”, without the evidence to support it. I use it rarely in ICU for refractory VT/VF.

Come on #AnSky #MedSky what do you think??? Get involved #MedSkyDebate We are what we engage.

Welcome back to the #MedSkyDebate from @bobfunn.bsky.social#MedSkyDebate What do you do? IV Lignocaine yay or nay?? After a rush of enthusiasm in my primary hospital IV Lignocaine has disappeared. I do not use it Get involved #MedSky #AnSky