Greg Bryson
@glbryson
Anesthesia | Perioperative Medicine | Running Professor, uOttawa Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Lots of opinions. All of them mine. #AnSky
Unsure if this is good or bad news given that this was reposted by @rnaguru.bsky.social, the guy who analyzes Ottawa’s wastewater for COVID, influenza, monkeypox, etc.
If you want to learn about digital rights management and develop the urge to tax tech companies back to the Pleistocene …
That “reducing the 10-30% mortality associated with critical care admission” didn’t make the top-10 sounds a lot like Wald’s plane.
In Ottawa Hospital-affiliated sites (care team model) patients get sedation. Not much. But some. From our experience, selection bias works the other way. Sicker patients done in hospitals with anesthesia providers. Can’t speak for the rest of the province. Covariate adjustment detailed below.
"Absence of early benefit suggests that routine preincision, single-shot TAP blocks in this mixed surgical population provide little analgesia." journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...
I had a 20-something guy with +++ induction and maintenance requirements sit bolt upright and broadcast to a full PACU, "Whoa! I've done some crazy shit in my time but that was fahhhhbulous." Best part was he did it in the voice of Crush from Finding Nemo.
Our old green masks + cleaning solution smelled like Canadian Tire. Our new brightly coloured plastic ones? I dunno, maybe Lego.
The Calverley oxygen knob is a great example of human factors in medicine. Controls for nitrous oxide and air were not only different shapes but they were recessed relative to 02. All colour-coded, although US and ISO coding systems vary. Now it's screens 🙄 www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/museum/calve...
Always thought of us as more Dudley than Snidely, but with the tariffs and 51st state nonsense I can twirl my moustache.
I associated our overdosing of rocuronium to the "aerosol preventing" intubations of the COVID era. In Boston, it seems it was sugammadex. Just for fun, ask a trainee or colleague for the ED95 of roc. journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...
On the morning of 1917-12-06 the Mont Blanc, a French ship laden with munitions, collided with the Imo in Halifax Harbour. The resulting explosion killed 1,782 and injured nearly 9000 more.
My father was an aerospace engineer who was a contractor on the shuttle program. Udvar-Hazy took me right back to being a 7 yo flying model rockets with his Dad. Priceless.