📢May marks #NationalWalkingMonth2025

Engaging in regular physical activity prior to surgery can reduce postop complications by up to 50%.

❗️Physically inactive patients experience at least four times the risk of complications.

Optimisation resources: ow.ly/UZyN50VLaFj

12% of operations have complications.

Periop care can reduce postoperative complications by up to 50%.

@scarlettmcnally.bsky.social talks to the audience at #Anaesthesia2025 on CPOC and the importance of preop optimisation in periop care.

View more on our website: cpoc.org.uk

Many congratulations to @tomabbott.bsky.social, on receiving the Mapleson Award Lecture at #Anaesthesia2025.

From epidemiology to platform trials.

Award presented by Dr Simon Howell.
@bjajournals.bsky.social

As part of the @rcoanews.bsky.social #Anaesthesia2025 poster competition, @emmasewart.bsky.social presented work on periop tobacco dependency treatment.

A dedicated team created our free, user-friendly guide for clinicians to help patients quit smoking pre-surgery.

🔗 cpoc.org.uk/guidelines-a...

Very grateful for the opportunity to talk about this work at #Anaesthesia2025
I’m really proud to have been involved with creating this great resource, which should make it much easier for clinical teams to support patients to quit smoking (link in comments) #medsky #perioperativecare #pqip

Original Article: Incidence of 12-month postoperative cognitive decline following regional vs. general anaesthesia in older patients undergoing hip fracture surgery: follow-up of the RAGA trial

#AnSky #MedSky #RASky

https://buff.ly/3EdNsC2

Interesting, compared to high prevalence of smoking in vascular surgery - doi.org/10.1111/anae...

> 25% of people smoke at the time of vascular surgery; prevalence > 33% in those undergoing lower limb bypass

Smoking is strongly associated with environmental deprivation

From 2012-22, the prevalence of smoking amongst elective CABG patients was surprisingly low (9% vs. 13% in the UK population). Why are we seeing this difference? Are patients successfully quitting before surgery? tinyurl.com/ywcmds7e #Ansky #Medsky @ronellemouton.bsky.social @alexisted.bsky.social

SNAP3:
We are delighted to share the first major publication from SNAP3: Characteristics of older patients undergoing surgery in UK @claireswarbrick.bsky.social @rcoanews.bsky.social @cri.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social What does it tell us? 🧵 1/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39765405/ #AnSky

Does NAP 7 show we’ve lost our way with human factors?

A short piece I wrote for @assocanaes.bsky.social on #humanfactors - missed opportunities around debriefing, CRM and simulation, and the thorny issue of transposing aviation standards to our practice.

#patientsafety

@rcoanews.bsky.social

My first @assocanaes.bsky.social conference and sorry I left it so long. Excellent talks, lovely people and lots of inspiration. Particularly enjoyed hearing about what’s next for the QRH from @tmeek.bsky.social himself #QRH #teatrolley #WSM2025

Urgent plea for volunteers for a focus group via Teams at 3pm GMT today!!

We've had a few people unable to make it last minute. We'd be very grateful if you could join.

Minimum 6 months working with PAD patients is the only requirement 😄

DM for more information

#vascsky #medsky

As #16DaysOfActivism conclude, the goal to end violence toward women is far from over #VAW #GBV #genderequality

Heading into a tumultuous 2025, here are 3 things we health professionals & advocates can do to demand action on gender based violence:

NEW in @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Come join our international team at #bja #bjaopen

DM for details

#ansky

Great talk on big group collaborative research @rcoa.bs @assocanaes.bs
by surgical colleague Sivesh Kamarajah

An excellent kick off to #Anaesthesia Research 2024 by dr Ella Quintella Challenges of recruiting minority groups in research @assocanaes.bs
@rcoanews.bs
@bjajournals.bs