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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · 7d

Agree the POCUS pendulum has probs swung a bit too far in some areas.

I think it can be helpful occasionally - i.e. cardiac standstill as a negative prognostic marker in prolonged arrest maybe?

Certainly shouldn’t prolong the pulse check or get in the way of good ALS

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · 15d

LV vent? More of a guess than a confident answer..

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jul 22

If there are categories, I would add “performative cricoid pressure”, which involves lightly touching the neck without applying any real force as to not distress the patient when we don’t think cricoid is really necessary but are afraid of litigation..

Probably the worst of the three.

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jul 19

Very interesting! All endovascular or did you have to go on circ arrest?

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jul 18

Leiomyosarcoma? Or thrombus?

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jul 6

The caveat with in-plane is that it’s fairly easy (I find) to accidentally slide off the jugular and onto the carotid if they are side by side.

It does prevent going through the back wall and cannulating a posterior artery though I guess.. no one failsafe technique.

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hard lessons re cardiogenic shock at #SoA25 - refusal of ICU admission because of lack of organ support needs at that point always irks me.

In a sick patient with multi organ dysfunction we clearly ought to intervene early to mitigate the need to organ support - are we too reactive as a specialty?

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JAMA @jama.com · Jun 12

Conservative oxygen therapy with a target SpO2 of 90% did not reduce 90-day all-cause mortality compared to usual oxygen therapy in mechanically ventilated adult patients.

#CCR25 @criticalcarereviews.com

https://ja.ma/4kG5gWK

Figure 2. Oxygen Exposure and Arterial Oxygenation by Treatment Group in Patients With Enhanced Data Collection

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jun 5

Not sure why APRV is such a polarising subject. It does seem to work in some patients (?recruitability), very difficult to get hard data on this.

Would also argue that is has a more favourable adverse effect profile than VV ECMO so why not try?

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · May 13

Donald Trump’s gargantuan self-dealing | Opinion

https://www.ft.com/content/f1cf9453-8fc4-49d5-9781-e117f744c3c7

Donald Trump’s gargantuan self-dealing | Opinion

Federal ethics rules now seem little more than decoration

www.ft.com

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josh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social · May 5

Everyone should ideally leave twitter and come to bluesky for several reasons.

- Unify the discussion

- Safe space for everyone (eg LGBTQ)

- Stop supporting twitter (which is now a vehicle of misinformation & political manipulation)

- Twitter is currently NSFW (eg frankly pornographic content)

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · May 2

I’d say TIVA for most elective work where smooth offset, less of PONV etc is most important.

Don’t tend to use it for high stakes emergency work (sick laparotomy, big traumas) - worried about giving lots of propofol in those and also reducing anaesthetic complexity lets you focus on resuscitation

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Apr 30

Apart from all the reasons you stated, I also think the FICM favours anaesthesia residents, not so much in terms of content but in the way it is delivered (anaesthetists will be used to viva examinations, and the OSCE is very different from PACES)

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Apr 29

Interesting argument! Out of interest, what motivated you to sit EDIC as well?

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Apr 28

Interesting as the effusion does not look huge, but presumably acute hence the rapid progression to tamponade?

Would definitely say RA collapse and maybe some RV collapse on diastole when I try to slow it down

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Apr 18

Scary what’s going on in the US right now - but also clearly legally highly dubious?

Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Apr 17

Chest is a superb scientific journal to which I regular submit some of my best science. This letter is an obvious travesty

I hope @accpchest.bsky.social treats it as the travesty it is

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · Apr 17

1. This is so poorly written that the sentence that is -- I think -- supposed to convey a semi-veiled legal threat is incomprehensible.

2. I'm jealous of whichever lawyer gets to write the response.

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Tim Norfolk @icmtim.bsky.social · Mar 27

Time to dump my shares in Sedaconda!

Inhaled Sevoflurane led to increased 90d mortality compared to propofol (52.9% v 44.3%) in pts with ARDS

(Also median duration of NMB use of 5 days in both groups seems wild 🫤)

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#MedSky #EMIMCC

Inhaled Sedation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

This clinical trial compares the efficacy of inhaled sevoflurane vs intravenous propofol for sedation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

jamanetwork.com

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Feb 10

Highly recommended for anyone with even a fleeting interest in cardiothoracic anaesthesia!

Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Partnership @capanaesthesia.bsky.social · Feb 5

Here is our programme of meetings for 2025.

Our first meeting of 2025 is on Friday 21st February.

All other meetings on the 2nd Monday of each month.

[email protected] for MS teams links

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jan 27

How do you use it on your unit? Only ever used it as infusion on ICU but seen it given as bolus in cardiac anaesthesia for RV dysfunction coming off bypass.

Nebulised conceptually makes sense but never seen this in practice

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jan 27

Agree, our approach of having a different storage layout in almost every theatre is baffling. Should be able to standardise within institutions if not across.

Same with clinical rooms on wards - assembling equipment for a procedure often takes longer than procedure time..

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josh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social · Jan 24

vasopressin challenge: this group evaluated 1U bolus of vasopressin to evaluate patient responsiveness

I love this for a few reasons:

[1] allows vaso to have rapid onset (rather than taking 30-60 min to build up)

[2] we can get a sense of whether the vaso is helping

🧵 1/5 #EMIMCC

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Dave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social · Jan 23

Speaking about my own patch… Wales has the lowest number of ICU beds per head of population in the world - and you can’t do that in the community.

These conversations shouldn’t be an either/or between primary and secondary care. It needs to be asking what are hospitals *for*?

AngryDigit @angrydigit.bsky.social · Jan 23

@welshgasdoc.bsky.social
Waiting on your view…..

Wales has too many hospitals, says Drakeford www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wales has too many hospitals, says Mark Drakeford

Former first minister tells podcast Wales has too many hospitals and too many beds.

www.bbc.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jan 11

The last days of Walter Benjamin

https://www.ft.com/content/fe8d0d96-ccbf-4410-8955-306987aea3b5

The last days of Walter Benjamin

Hounded by the Nazis, the great philosopher took his life in 1940, leaving several mysteries unanswered

www.ft.com

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jan 11

Wrote a little piece for the @ficm.bsky.social Resident’s Eye Newsletter on our forays into tabletop simulation on the ICU - have a read!

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Hans van Huellen @hvh86.bsky.social · Jan 6

I would argue that truly difficult intubations where removing the tube would be dangerous are rare - PUMA guidelines provide an algorithm for this, too.

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