📢CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS! Are you a doctor or nurse working in ICU? 🏥 Please consider taking part in our research. See attached poster for more information. Follow the link to participate: uniofbath.questionpro.eu/t/AB3u09DZB3vq… Please retweet and share with your network!

#HipFracture clinicians. What is your first line antibiotic prophylaxis for hemiarthroplasty (assuming no allergies)? Rationale / country in replies would helpful.

Iain Moppett Cephalosporin 2g immediately preop. Spain. MRSA not as much a concern as in other parts of the world. Most bugs in HA are Gram-neg or polymicrobial. We have a paper accepted in Injury on infection after hip frx BTW. I’ll post when it’s online.

Iain Moppett Recent change in Abx prophylaxis guidelines for Ortho surgery. Spinal surgery (with metalwork) is still Cef

Iain Moppett Cefazolin here in Ontario, 🇨🇦. Based on general sensitivity of S aureus to 1 gen cephalosporins here.

Wow. What amazing work and commitment from Paul Barlow and these students. I hope this inspires many others. 👇

1⃣4⃣ randomisations within a week! Keep up the great work everyone🎉 Thank you and congratulations to the sites who randomised these 14 participants: South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust South Tyneside & Sunderland Research & Innovation, Barts Health, Liverpool Hospitals Research & Innovation, South Tees Anaesthetics & ED Research💙

I'm doing a cool new thing...thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/proje… 😎 (please drop me a line to get involved, all welcome)

I'm delighted to announce the UK's latest professor of intensive care medicine, Prof Zudin Puthucheary. Huge congrats Zudin. Queen Mary University of London CCPMG are very proud of you. 🥳🥳🥳 Zudin

Let’s Finish Strong! 🚀 This month, our FLO-ELA randomisations could use a little boost. We're so close to the finish line — let's make this final stretch count! 💪 Every randomisation gets us closer to our goal. Can you help us increase our numbers? Together, we can do this! 🎉

Congratulations to @researchNBT Chorley & Royal Preston NHS Lothian and Medway NHSFT Research and Innovation Team for randomising in the last week! A big shout out to NIHR PRC: Blackpool Emma Ward for recruiting 2 patients in 1 day🙌

🔓Principles for management of hip fracture for older adults taking direct oral anticoagulants: an international consensus statement Professor Rebecca Mitchell Hannah Seymour 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

PatientsVoices@RCoA have produced a simple and accessible summary of NAP7 report 'At the Heart of the Matter' looking at the subject of perioperative cardiac arrest from a patient's perspective. Download and share 👇 ow.ly/F8TO50TcpjB National Audit Projects RCoA Centre for Research & Improvement

First and foremost a very sad case. A stark reminder that commonly done things can go horribly wrong. I wonder how much practice for administration of intra-operative local anaesthesia varies between and within hospitals. 👇

We are excited to announce that AAA Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 will be in... BRIGHTON! Registration opens in October 🍂 Looking forward to seeing you there! #AAAConf #ASM2025

Iain Moppett We have a protocol with written instructions for the different mixes stuck literally on the OR wall, that must be checked off by the theater nurse. For day surgery (WALANT mainly) the mix is done by the hospital pharmacists and sent to the day surgery area, just like for chemo.

Iain Moppett Most common “pharmaceutical” error I’ve seen - without consequence fortunately - using distilled water instead of saline for arthroscopy and cystoscopy. Noticed when cautery doesn’t work because distilled water is non-conductive. 3L bags are THE SAME. We talked to the company.

Iain Moppett Company said they wouldn’t change the packaging so the safety committee has proposed to use a different brand for each type of 3L bag.

Comment & reply on our recent Anesthesiology paper looking at long-term outcomes of spinal vs general anesthesia. pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology…