Happy to share this chart to help cuff validation studies. More than 1 cuff system may be needed to ensure the appropriate dimensions for all arm sizes.

Size Dimension Chart for Reference Cuff Validation and Limitations in Current Recommendations academic.oup.com/ajh/article-ab…

Pranab Chatterjee Ash Paul SP Kalantri I work at PGI, and I agree with SP Kalantri

Many Dx and Rx are based on cost-effectiveness for developed countries. Those calculations do not translate well for LMIC/LIC nations

Add out-of-pocket payments, and now that calculation carries little value for an individual patient

About how other clinicians refer (or not) to palliative care...
The genius of Jared Rubenstein, MD, animating a conversation of desperation we held a few weeks ago.
I'm very proud of this one.
🔥if this sounds familiar
✋🏽if you plan to take this advice

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My patients think Ozempic is a wonder drug: But it can't fix fat phobia npr.org/sections/healt… via Mara Gordon, MD Robin Conibere

Bioethicists Today: Results of the Views in Bioethics Survey tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… via Leah Pierson et al

Wearable devices can now harvest our brain data. Australia needs urgent privacy reforms theconversation.com/wearable-devic… via #EdwardMusole

How to stop turmeric from killing people
economist.com/leaders/2023/1… via @The Economist Edzard Ernst Dr. Jonathan N. Stea Тylerliverdr

The 'Sift' strategy: A four-step method for spotting misinformation bbc.com/future/article… via Amanda Ruggeri

What US nurses really want: sufficient staffing for patient care statnews.com/2024/05/10/wha… via Karen Lasater PhD RN FAAN (she/her) et al Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse

Those who keep researching will keep rising in academia

Please can we abandon the term 'atypical chest pain' when 50% of the population with ischaemic chest pain are likely to present like this?

Delighted to see Professor Vijay Kunadian speaking on this MIRCIM

Not my experience in psychiatric contexts. I tell patients about SSRI risks and their limited efficacy relative to placebo, making a soft case against SSRIs, but most still want them––in part because enjoying a placebo effect requires a suitable intervention to serve as vehicle.

The outcomes of mental health care for depression over time: A meta-regression analysis of response rates in usual care sciencedirect.com/science/articl… via Pim Cuijpers et al

May reminder:

I² estimates between-study heterogeneity: NO❌

I² is a test for between-study heterogeneity: NO❌

I² > 50% means large heterogeneity: NO❌

I² measures percentage of total variability due to between-study heterogeneity: YES✅

bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain biorxiv.org/content/10.110… via Bratislav Misic et al

If your lab uses colorimetric creatinine assays, a patient with glycosuria from an SGLT2I will have overestimated urine creatinine and therefore a lower urine protein: creatinine ratio

Therefore proceed with caution on that 'amazing reduction in proteinuria'

The The Royal College of Surgeons of England Council has expressed alarm at the practices outlined in a recent paper highlighting the outcomes of a surgical care practitioner (SCP) performing laparoscopic cholecystectomies at Walsall Healthcare btwn June 2015 to November 2019.  rcseng.ac.uk/news-and-event…

.The RCN Professional Development Framework: Consultant Level Nursing rcn.org.uk/Professional-D…

CRISPR edits fail to cure HIV patients in early test statnews.com/2024/05/10/hiv… via Jason Mast

A Shocking Number of Drs Don’t Understand Menopause: Women deserve better hlth care at midlife, including more accurate info' abt hormone replacement Rx bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Lisa Jarvis Susan Bewley Joyce Harper Jim Thornton Annice Mukherjee Dr Liz O'Riordan Robin Conibere