New publication out in Intensive Care Medicine! We review the challenges & advances in managing atrial fibrillation in critical illness, and outline key gaps for future research. Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s001... #ICU #AFib #CriticalCare

In Lund, Sweden 🇸🇪 for the TARGET meeting — advancing AI-driven virtual twins 🤖 to fight AF ❤️ and stroke 🧠 across Europe 🇪🇺 #TARGETproject #DigitalHealth #AF #EUresearch @nhsuhlg-ri.bsky.social @target-horizoneu.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social

Prof Xavier Monnet addresses the HD effects of prone positioning. Great take homes about the risk of the waterfall effect and the use of Trendelenburg position in the prone patient to predict fluid responsiveness. Linked paper below #ISICEM25 #EMIMCC ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#ISICEM25 | Always fascinating to hear @MichardFrederic discuss the future of bedside screens 🖥️🔍 📊 Evolution to visual decision support tools 🔹 Turning data into knowledge ⚡ Faster & more accurate detection of abnormalities 🧠 Improving situation awareness & reducing cognitive workload

Absolutely thrilled that @liverpooluni.bsky.social 4th year medical student Jessica who undertook her MRes with us at NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group has won an award for her poster at #isicem25 #isicem ISICEM. Absolutely bossing it! 👊🏻🤗 well done Jessica! 👊🏻 @nhsuhlg-ri.bsky.social

Among patients with moderate to severe ARDS, inhaled sedation with sevoflurane resulted in fewer ventilator-free days at day 28 and lower 90-day survival than sedation with propofol. https://ja.ma/4kxDZGm #ISICEM25

The liver IS evil. Is does needs exercise The day ends with a phenomenal talk from one of my favourite hepatologists - Prof Julia Wendon. ACLF… a difficult topic that we all should know more about. Prognosis is everything. #ISICEM25 #EMIMCC

Now @pirracchior presenting the OVISS Reinforcement Learning Study: Optimal Vasopressin Initiation in Septic Shock @ISICEM.bsky.social #ISICEM25

Results of the #SESARtrial: Among patients with moderate/severe ARDS, inhaled sedation with sevoflurane resulted in - fewer ventilator-free days at day 28 - lower 90-day survival than sedation with propofol. Now published in JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/ja... @isicem.bsky.social #ISICEM25

At #ISICEM Fodder for the evening run is gathering. Not least the OVISS study looking at a reinforcement learning tool for the optimal timing of vasopressin introduction. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

@isicem.bsky.social is renowned for its full, high-quality scientific program. Watch now Prof. Fabio Taccone's recommendations & start crafting your personalized learning journey today! More sessions on isicem.org/1/ProgrammeI... #criticalcare #intensivecare #emergencymedicine

"The sparseness of formal regulation contrasts starkly with AI’s potential to cause harm." This Viewpoint examines prospects for populating the regulatory landscape for health and health care AI in the coming years. https://ja.ma/429LY54

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

🩺🫀 Exciting news! 🫀🩺 Thank you, Isansys Lifecare, for delivering our next batch of wireless patient monitoring systems for the WARD 24/7 substudy! We’re using AI & wireless monitoring to improve patient care & save lives. #AIinHealthcare #WirelessMonitoring #Research #AI @nhsuhlg-ri.bsky.social

Disappointing decision whatever the underlying reasons, given that Liverpool's future economic growth is centred on Health and Life Sciences development.

It's World Cancer Day and 10 years ago this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I can't believe it was a decade ago This is me in hospital waiting to have a mastectomy. I'm smiling but god I was so anxious, so worried I wouldn't wake up from the anaesthetic 🧵

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #Immunosky #pharmasky #publichealth This Review discusses management of safety issues for #CARTcell therapies : #cytokine release syndrome, as well as druggable targets & cellular engineering strategies to develop safer #CART cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨🚨We’re so excited to be back podding today!! Listen now to the first episode in our new Guidelines Series. We’re starting with the Asthma GINA guidelines and today talking about diagnosis, assessment, and phenotyping www.pulmpeeps.com/2025/02/04/9...

And submental muscle recruitment increases during expiratory loading tasks pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17294298/ Although post extubation dysphagia is clearly multi factorial, could training of the submental muscles after extubation improve swallowing?

Expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) has some evidence for improving swallowing in several disease states But what about after extubation in intensive care? Can EMST improve post extubation dysphagia? Our SR protocol, published today #critcare onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🫁 Can breathing training help ICU patients swallow again? 💡 41% of ICU patients struggle with swallowing after ventilation. This review explores Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST)—a technique that strengthens breathing muscles 💪 to aid recovery. #medsky #icu #criticalcare #recovery

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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🚑 Can AI predict pneumonia severity? A study finds ML models show promise but need better validation. Some outperform CURB-65, but practical barriers remain. Future focus: clinical validation, integration & transparency. AI in healthcare is evolving—will it transform pneumonia care? #AI #Healthcare

The NHS treats research as a hobby rather than a properly remunerated part of a clinician’s work. www.ukri.org/news/report-...

One of my kitchen utensils seems to be playing classical music. I think it’s the Chopin board. #dadjokes

🩻🫀CRP, INR, Fibrinogen associated with New Onset AF in critically unwell patients - @liverpoolccs.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social Can these markers be used in risk prediction? 🫀🩻 #cardiac #cardiology #criticalcare #icu #af #itu

When the journal holds your paper for so long you have to repeat the lit search

🚨 Thrilled to announce that we have kicked off 2025 by meeting another milestone in the NOTE-AF study at @nhsuhlg-ri.bsky.social - we've opened the cardiology study arm and recruited our first participant. 🚨 Introducing virtual twin-driven AI models for atrial fibrillation (AF) 👇 target-horizon.eu

Fantastic to see the UK’s first drug consumption room finally open its doors in Glasgow. Congratulations to all those who made this happen. As the experience from more than 200 drug consumption rooms around the world shows, The Thistle will save many lives: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Beautiful frosty day in Neston

Editorial on incidence and outcomes of transient new onset atrial fibrillation complicating acute coronary syndromes: results from a systematic review and meta-analysis #Afib #ACS @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @lhchft.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehjcvp/artic...

Diuretic Potentiation Strategies in Acute Heart Failure #CardioSky #MedSky #JACCHF www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social @robmentz.bsky.social @sjgreene-md.bsky.social @vietheartpa.bsky.social @load-dependent.bsky.social @jimjanuzzi.bsky.social @dranulala.bsky.social

🚨Thrilled to share output from the first project the TRIC Network undertook🚨 Conceived at the height of the first wave of the COVID pandemic, the PIM-COVID project assessed the psychological impact of COVID in ICU survivors. Important findings —> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣PIM-COVID study results are finally here!📣 ✋1620 COVID-19 ICU survivors consented 🏥 52 sites across the UK 6 months post-ICU: 🚨44% survivors had probable PTSD 30% anxiety 26% depression. 12 months post-ICU: 🚨43% survivors had probable PTSD 29% anxiety 24% depression. tinyurl.com/PIM-COVID 1/5

Live footage of me trying to get to my car this morning 🥶

"For minorities like me, hearing one of Farage's 'ordinary folk' call the Prime Minister of this country a 'f**cking P*ki' is no laughing matter. It is terrifying" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social writing last June...

Sepsis-induced cardiogenic shock: controversies and evidence gaps in diagnosis and management CCR Journal Watch criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evide... CCR Newsletter - subscribe at criticalcarereviews.com/newsletters/...

I was considering buying the SeeStar S50 - this image makes it more likely 😮😮

It's Jan 1st, so we reset the Paper of the Day record Every day we'll review one topic & cover the entire spectrum of critical care across 2025 The papers are open access & available on the website or via email Interested? Join in! criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evide...

Oral blood pressure augmenting agents for intravenous vasopressor weaning CCR Journal Watch criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evide... Get the latest critical care literature every weekend via the CCR Newsletter - subscribe criticalcarereviews.com/newsletters/...

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Christmas isn’t joyful for everyone. Some are missing loved ones, some are fighting silent battles and others are just trying to make it through the day Be gentle with those around you & yourownself A little kindness can be someone’s greatest gift this season ❤️

Merry Xmas Skywalkers! On the first day of Altmetric Christmas Highest scoring article containing A Partridge in a Pear Tree thanks to this literary flourish within a letter next to the article by Richard Lawson of Wollstonecraft www.altmetric.com/de... Fulltext search via Dimensions Analytics

A mother's love knows no bounds. ❤️🦊 This image perfectly captures the beautiful bond between a fox and her kits.

One for the medics. Sound advice. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On the 21st of December, in the Northern Hemisphere, the Sunrise reaches the most northerly point on the horizon and we have the shortest day. For 3 mornings the Sun rises at the same spot. On the morning of the 25th it shifts southwards 1 degree and thus the Sun, light of the world, is reborn.