Greg Bryson
@glbryson.bsky.social
Anesthesia | Perioperative Medicine | Running
Professor, uOttawa Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Lots of opinions. All of them mine.
#AnSky
Professor, uOttawa Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Lots of opinions. All of them mine.
#AnSky
Reposted by Greg Bryson
It doesn't matter that experts say one thing on a hundred sites if a million sites written by ignorant people exist to counteract it.
You're not "asking an AI to answer a question" you're "giving an LLM a prompt and it is generating plausible text".
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You're not "asking an AI to answer a question" you're "giving an LLM a prompt and it is generating plausible text".
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November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It doesn't matter that experts say one thing on a hundred sites if a million sites written by ignorant people exist to counteract it.
You're not "asking an AI to answer a question" you're "giving an LLM a prompt and it is generating plausible text".
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You're not "asking an AI to answer a question" you're "giving an LLM a prompt and it is generating plausible text".
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While we officially starting using the phrase "team-based anesthesia care" in spring 2025, the concept has over two decades of real-world practice behind it. Learn more about this history via our latest latest blog post, featuring our vice-chair, Dr. Sylvie Aucoin: https://ow.ly/fP4n50Xx51n
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
While we officially starting using the phrase "team-based anesthesia care" in spring 2025, the concept has over two decades of real-world practice behind it. Learn more about this history via our latest latest blog post, featuring our vice-chair, Dr. Sylvie Aucoin: https://ow.ly/fP4n50Xx51n
I can’t even.
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I can’t even.
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If you want to live in low-density, single-family neighbourhoods you should pay for it.
WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by @notjustbikes with @UrbanThree & @StrongTowns. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If you want to live in low-density, single-family neighbourhoods you should pay for it.
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Editorial: "Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication."
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Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication
Drummond Rennie, physician, scientist, editor, climber, tireless promoter of integrity and transparency in science, and mentor to many, died on September 12, 2025, at the age of 89.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Editorial: "Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication."
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#Move.
"...individuals with the highest levels of physical activity at midlife and late life had 41% and 45% lower risk of all-cause dementia..."
Physical Activity Over the Adult Life Course and Risk of Dementia jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
"...individuals with the highest levels of physical activity at midlife and late life had 41% and 45% lower risk of all-cause dementia..."
Physical Activity Over the Adult Life Course and Risk of Dementia jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Physical Activity Over the Adult Life Course and Risk of Dementia
This cohort study uses data from the Framingham Heart Study to evaluate whether higher physical activity levels in early adult life, midlife, or late life are associated with lower risk of all-cause o...
jamanetwork.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
#Move.
"...individuals with the highest levels of physical activity at midlife and late life had 41% and 45% lower risk of all-cause dementia..."
Physical Activity Over the Adult Life Course and Risk of Dementia jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
"...individuals with the highest levels of physical activity at midlife and late life had 41% and 45% lower risk of all-cause dementia..."
Physical Activity Over the Adult Life Course and Risk of Dementia jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
I’m saddened to post the passing of Dr Earl Wynands on 2025-11-14 at the age of 95.
A pioneer of cardiac anesthesia, former chair of uOttawa Anesthesia, and the kindest soul you’d care to meet. He’ll be deeply missed.
www.hpmcgarry.ca/obituaries/D...
A pioneer of cardiac anesthesia, former chair of uOttawa Anesthesia, and the kindest soul you’d care to meet. He’ll be deeply missed.
www.hpmcgarry.ca/obituaries/D...
www.hpmcgarry.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m saddened to post the passing of Dr Earl Wynands on 2025-11-14 at the age of 95.
A pioneer of cardiac anesthesia, former chair of uOttawa Anesthesia, and the kindest soul you’d care to meet. He’ll be deeply missed.
www.hpmcgarry.ca/obituaries/D...
A pioneer of cardiac anesthesia, former chair of uOttawa Anesthesia, and the kindest soul you’d care to meet. He’ll be deeply missed.
www.hpmcgarry.ca/obituaries/D...
Reposted by Greg Bryson
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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There is no greater joy than everyone in the house being asleep as you drink your morning coffee.
November 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM
There is no greater joy than everyone in the house being asleep as you drink your morning coffee.
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THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
Works for medicine too.
Coaching is not about prescribing and dictating.
It's about creating situations where the athlete is challenged to figure it out. You nudge them along, but if you always give them the answer, you aren't actually teaching. And they aren't learning.
It's about creating situations where the athlete is challenged to figure it out. You nudge them along, but if you always give them the answer, you aren't actually teaching. And they aren't learning.
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Works for medicine too.
A baseline as respiratory virus season begins.
Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Nov 09. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A baseline as respiratory virus season begins.
My grandmother was a patient in a Halifax hospital when the Imo and Mont Blanc collided. The Christmas tree reminds of her and the kindness of neighbours.
boston sent vital assistance following the 1917 halifax harbor explosion (so awful it killed 1700 people), and as thanks, nova scotia has sent us a christmas tree every year. it’s a nice little tradition. this is the first time the boston mayor visited to retrieve it in person
In Canada, Wu helps chop down Boston's Christmas tree
Mayor Michelle Wu spent three days in Nova Scotia, saying she wanted to affirm Boston's relationship with Canada amid antagonism from the Trump administration.
www.boston.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
My grandmother was a patient in a Halifax hospital when the Imo and Mont Blanc collided. The Christmas tree reminds of her and the kindness of neighbours.
Much needed.
Chapeau to the authors.
Chapeau to the authors.
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Much needed.
Chapeau to the authors.
Chapeau to the authors.
It’s a monitor, not therapy.
I place fewer and fewer arterial and central lines over my 30 years in the biz. Nice trial nudging me further down that path.
Deferring Arterial Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients with Shock | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
I place fewer and fewer arterial and central lines over my 30 years in the biz. Nice trial nudging me further down that path.
Deferring Arterial Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients with Shock | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
Deferring Arterial Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients with Shock | NEJM
In patients with shock, whether noninvasive blood-pressure monitoring is an effective
alternative to the recommended use of an arterial catheter is uncertain. In this multicenter,
open-label, nonin...
www.nejm.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It’s a monitor, not therapy.
I place fewer and fewer arterial and central lines over my 30 years in the biz. Nice trial nudging me further down that path.
Deferring Arterial Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients with Shock | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
I place fewer and fewer arterial and central lines over my 30 years in the biz. Nice trial nudging me further down that path.
Deferring Arterial Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients with Shock | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
Adding this review of clinical EEG for anesthesiologists and intensivists to my weekend reading.
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journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...
journals.lww.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Adding this review of clinical EEG for anesthesiologists and intensivists to my weekend reading.
journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...
journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...
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The chance of having an allergic reaction to a neuromuscular blocking drug is:
• suxamethonium: ~1 in 1500 people
• rocuronium: ~1 in 3300 people
• atracurium: ~1 in 15,000 people
Women were up to eight times more likely to have a reaction than men.
#AnSky #MedSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
• suxamethonium: ~1 in 1500 people
• rocuronium: ~1 in 3300 people
• atracurium: ~1 in 15,000 people
Women were up to eight times more likely to have a reaction than men.
#AnSky #MedSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The chance of having an allergic reaction to a neuromuscular blocking drug is:
• suxamethonium: ~1 in 1500 people
• rocuronium: ~1 in 3300 people
• atracurium: ~1 in 15,000 people
Women were up to eight times more likely to have a reaction than men.
#AnSky #MedSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
• suxamethonium: ~1 in 1500 people
• rocuronium: ~1 in 3300 people
• atracurium: ~1 in 15,000 people
Women were up to eight times more likely to have a reaction than men.
#AnSky #MedSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Read up, Canada.
We’ve lost our measles-elimination status.
We’ve lost our measles-elimination status.
#Measles, a highly contagious viral disease, is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in regions with low immunization coverage.
💡 This JAMA Insights discusses transmission, clinical presentation, and diagnosis of measles.
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💡 This JAMA Insights discusses transmission, clinical presentation, and diagnosis of measles.
ja.ma/3JMCMxl
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Read up, Canada.
We’ve lost our measles-elimination status.
We’ve lost our measles-elimination status.
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Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
“Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.”
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.”
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.”
“If anaesthetists are to adopt a screening test for an otherwise asymptomatic population, we must be reasonably confident that: the test detects the target condition; detection changes management in a way that improves patient-centred outcomes; and harms are outweighed by benefits”
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“If anaesthetists are to adopt a screening test for an otherwise asymptomatic population, we must be reasonably confident that: the test detects the target condition; detection changes management in a way that improves patient-centred outcomes; and harms are outweighed by benefits”
Well done, convoy cretins and misinformation mongers.
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status on Monday, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status
If the country loses its status, public-health researchers say the return of endemic measles would carry serious health consequences
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Well done, convoy cretins and misinformation mongers.