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Dr Aidan Baron

@aidanbaron.bsky.social
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Paramedic | Researcher | Doctor | POCUS Educator | Digital Medical Ethics | LGBTQIA+ health🏳️‍⚧️ | Patient Advocacy | He/Him | Views my Own www.about.me/AidanBaron

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.
If COVID resulted in everyone getting harmless, untreatable, utterly gross pustules covering their entire face for weeks we wouldn't still be in a pandemic.
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Omg.
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I am so sorry this was done to you Awful Wishing you well in your recovery
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Nicholas Chrimes @chrimesy.com · 22/06/2025
From the man who debunked both RSI & MILNS. Can’t wait! associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed cervical spine injury
Background There are concerns that airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed cervical spine injury may exacerbate an existing neurological deficit, cause a new spinal cord injury or ...
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 29/05/2025
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #pedsky #immunosky The recently published #Fluvaccine after #MyocardialInfarction trial showed that #Fluvaccine within 72 h of hospitalization for MI led to a significant 28% reduction in MACE and a 41% reduction in CV mortality, without any excess in serious adverse events…
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped
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Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
PowerPoint slide that says: “does America do it, if yes, then no”
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I think In medicine The highs are high and the lows are really low The privilege of the relationship we share with patients is a treasure But The way our good will is used to extract value in the form of service provision that eats away at our life and lifespan …sucks
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Tom Quinn @proftomquinn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Wow! @aidanbaron.bsky.social congrats on your new podcast. This first episode on dental/oral health taught me a lot. Recommended listening for anyone interested in health and health inequalities. Looking forward to more.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak. Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.
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Third measles death
This is not normal. For three reasons.
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Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I just have to shout into the void that patient safety incident investigations are so additionally traumatic for families who've already been through the worst. I'm so drained with being promised reports that don't arrive-and communication about their absence I have to instigate.
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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Traffic stops are one of the most common civilian and police interactions. Does race influence such interactions? Our new paper published in @science.org using a rideshare data set shows that there is considerable racial bias. Paper can be downloaded here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and...
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Natalie May @nmay.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“The best time to have a baby? Preferably at the end of the third trimester.” Great stuff from Leanne Rowe over in MJA insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/12/the-...?
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The best time to have a baby during a medical career - InSight+
Advice about delaying pregnancy or parental leave may be dismissed as an innocent attempt to help early career doctors achieve their goals, but it constitutes a breach of the Sex Discrimination Act. T...
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Wait what There’s an orally dissolving prochlorperazine ?
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I have just been informed that Ondansetron wafers are actually not absorbed by the oral mucosa and instead need to trickle down with spit to be absorbed by the gastric mucosa Am I being punked?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Tony Walker ASM @agwalker01.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Formula 1 teams obsess over data to shave milliseconds off lap times. 🚥🏁 Ambulance Victoria takes the same approach to cardiac arrest survival—their latest report shows a record 41% survival rate, making Victoria the 3rd safest place in the world for OHCA. www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/about-us/res...
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Guys on American military podcasts call each other ‘sir’ like people in The Bear™ call each other chef in the Kitchen
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I love Paul Simpson’s suggestion that researchers should take a methodological pause to consider “am I heading in the right direction?” the same way we’d take a clinical pause managing complex illness I’m as guilty as any of us of (ab)using surveys in the past A great reminder
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
An important recent editorial Surveys - they often suck* *lack methodological rigour, misappropriate validated tools, fail to appropriately analyse qualitative data etc Poor surveys have become almost ubiquitous in paramedic research journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Doing better with survey-based research in paramedicine - Paul Simpson, 2025
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Dr Nav Sidhu @drnavsidhu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
23 cases of epidurals being blamed for masking acute compartment syndrome pain. In 19 of these, the patients complained of pain but were ignored. @maggieholtzmd.bsky.social at #ASURA2025 #AnSky #RASky
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Dr. Buck Reed @buck-reed.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
When I joined an ambulance service 20 years ago there were 8 women in our recruit class of 32. Last week I taught a new group of first years and had 70% female students. I'm excited about the evolution of Paramedicine given our traditional gender bias. Demographic change brings structural change.
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 08/03/2025
Today's Paper of the Day is: Preventing unrecognized esophageal intubation in the emergency department criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evid… Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us
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Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In the excitement over our new review of PAs, I forgot to tell you about the OTHER paper published in BMJ today, my commentary on the challenges of doing systematic reviews of evidence when there's no RCTs and most of the primary studies were unique and non-standardised.🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Systematic reviews of non-RCT evidence: building dry stone walls
To bake good cookies, start with good cookie dough. To use a different metaphor, to build a brick wall, take a large collection of bricks—all the same size and in perfect shape—and line them up neatly...
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I tried something new this week Took a mini fold-up camping stool into work overnight in the Emergency department so I could sit down with patients when I take a history. Game Changer. Seriously felt like it improved the quality of interactions
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Wishing my Muslim friends and colleagues a Ramadan Mubarak and Kareem Hope you have peaceful fasting and that the future brings an opportunity for all of us to enjoy a greater lasting peace around the world
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Mike Christian @drmikechristian.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🚨 New Research Published From London’s Air Ambulance! Pre-hospital Resuscitative Thoracotomy (RT) can improve survival for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest (TCA) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #TraumaCare #EmergencyMedicine #PreHospitalCare #Resuscitation #LondonAirsAmbulance #HEMS
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My opinion is that it would just become a procedure service for lines (and drains etc) If you aren’t a POCUS user, you won’t consider its diagnostic potential and won’t ask someone to come scan for you Plus - how to interpret it contextually
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sam ?
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 14/02/2025
roses are red you are devine avoid use of causal language not justified by this study design
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
But truth be told It’s about safe working hours We aim for a 40hr work week And tend to hit 50-70 Higher for some surgical specialties For the 5-8 years it takes when in specialty training We pay trainees a liveable wage during that time
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The benefit of the system is that 1. System extracts value from trainees for longer 2. There is a hypothetically (but unproven) greater level of expertise and depth , but certainly breadth, at completion of training.
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Then a year is often spent in any specialty with high competition rates for entry to that training program Our training programs are often not tied to hospitals but are centralised by the college of the specialty and instead doctors apply for jobs in that specialty at hospitals.
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
First two years are rotations every 10 weeks or so between different IM, Surg, EM, and community/primary care teams so that the doctor has an appreciation for and understanding of a greater breath of medical practice and is better rounded. Plus it’s cheap labour.
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
*Stares in Australian 9 year track*
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Cardiology Mini Lesson on the go today from the 💚 Reg: Common Causes of AFib Think DIE Drugs (non adherence or IVDU) Infection or IHD Electrolytes (esp K+ and Mag)
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Legend! Thank you
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Don’t suppose you have the paper ? Would love to include this in teaching
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Jo Poole @jopodr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In a recent review just 0-1.3% of bruises in pre mobile infants were accidental - any bruising in this age group should be fully investigated and explicable
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Fired Police investigation ongoing Likely struck off by AHPRA soon
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Beyond upset to watch two NSWHealth nurses pose illegally as doctors and claim that if given the opportunity they would refuse care to, or kill a patient under their care who was from Israel. Thank you Health Minister Ryan Park for taking swift action. No place in Healthcare for this
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Niro Siriwardena @nsiriwardena.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
97% of opioid doses for children in Danish registry study were within or at lower end of recommended dose range, 3/4 given in age 10+ years, and 2/3 IV, pointing to a risk of under-treating pain in children. sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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The use of strong analgesics for prehospital pain management in children in the region of Southern Denmark: a register-based study - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicin...
Background Acute pain in the prehospital setting is frequent and prehospital pain management presents multiple challenges, especially in children. There is a lack of high-level evidence regarding preh...
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
#JnrDoctorDiary Cried with my patient today. They gave me wonderful life advice Was special Today was a good day.
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Dr Aidan Baron @aidanbaron.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Disappointed by Dr Sue Ieraci’s Opinion piece on the current psychiatry industrial dispute in NSW. It insists upon itself and muddies waters already contaminated by government spin-doctoring. www.ausdoc.com.au/opinion/do-n...
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Do NSW psychiatrists deserve a 25% pay rise? Here’s my take as an emergency doctor
Watching from afar, the new US regime’s changes to the management of healthcare, superimposed on an already dysfunctional system, elicit a sense of
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