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Caz Sampson

@cazsampson.bsky.social
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Consultant in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Adult ECMO, Leicester. Posts/opinions my own (mainly medical with the odd cat-related one thrown in for balance)

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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Had such a lovely day at Twickenham today. 10s of thousands of people came & celebrated England’s success. We proudly waved the English flag. We celebrated women’s sport. Everyone was welcome. Everyone was kind. We cheered the teams that came 2nd, 3rd & 4th. This is what matters.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Daily Mail previews a "weekend of anarchy". Calls for mass protests outside 14 asylum hotels appear to seen up to 1500 anti- turn up, with several hundred counter-protestors. The police made two arrests in Canary Wharf, one from each side. Have not yet seen reports of arrests elsewhere tonight.
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I still lurk on “the other place” (mainly to try and provide some scientific/medical sense amongst the sea of awfulness, although very much appreciate it would be better for my well being if I didn’t). Saw this today and thought Bluesky would appreciate
“It looks like you are trying to defend Trump’s policies. Would you like me to turn on caps lock and disable spell check?”
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The Glenfield hospital magnolia tree in all its glory. Enjoy
A beautiful and huge pink magnolia tree starting to bloom
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A recent pre-print yet to be peer reviewed has been published that explores the very rare side effects of covid vaccine. It’s an important study but one that is quickly being weaponised. I wanted to try and clarify what this preprint does and does not say 🧪
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The rare flip-side of the immunological coin: Post-vaccine syndrome (PVS).
Vaccines are transformational medicines at the population level, saving millions of lives over hundreds of years. However, any medicine can carry rare individual risks.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Among Young Competitive Athletes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic No, just no, vaccines also did not cause more cardiac arrests among athletes. They just did not. "Died suddenly" is all a lie, it always was. jamanetwork.com/jour...
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest Among Young Athletes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This cohort study compares the prevalence of sudden cardiac arrest or death among young athletes in the 3 years before vs the first 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Segun Olusanya (He/Him) @drfreeze.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Check out this upcoming study day all about ventilator associated pneumonia from @ics-updates.bsky.social Not too late to register! ics.ac.uk/learning/eve...
ics.ac.uk
ICS/BIA : Update on Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
Join us for an overview of the latest updates and advances in Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Officially out of office
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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I am not big on personal heroes and role models, but if I had a little gallery of inspiring people on my office wall, this guy would be one of them.
theguardian.com
‘I’m a pain in the backside ... an awkward sod’: Alan Bates on love, justice and the Post Office scandal
He became a household name after ITV turned Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice into a drama. He reflects on his fight for compensation, turning down an OBE – and getting married on Richard Brans...
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
#medsky Interested if anyone is seeing clinical influenza A (specifically H1N1pdm09) associated encephalitis this winter?
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Flu cases rising fast in the UK. If you’ve been condidering a ‘flu vaccine but haven’t got around to it yet, getting it done asap would be a good idea BW An ICU & ECMO consultant #medsky
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Random amusing facts that I want from social media
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Need some inspiration?
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Bit niche but is #ECMOsky here yet? If so great paper on nomenclature in VAECMO #MedSky #ICUSky
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Anaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reminder: Continuing angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin 2 receptor blockers 24 h before non-cardiac surgery was associated with intra-operative hypotension and postoperative acute kidney injury. #AnSky #MedSky #PharmSky 🧪 buff.ly/48YtnLp
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excellent article from @rosieicm.bsky.social about how best to care for autistic patients and support autistic staff members in critical care #medsky #ICUsky
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Important thread. Please don’t start regular salbutamol for anything that vaguely sounds like wheeze in ICU unless you are happy it is due to bronchospasm. Appropriate for bronchospasm but entirely the wrong drug for pulmonary oedema and myriad other pathologies that sound like wheeze in ICU #medsky
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Ben Morton @benmorton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New onset ICU wheeze.... If a critically ill patient suddenly develops wheeze is it more likely that they have developed salbutamol-responsive bronchoconstriction or that we have fluid overloaded them (future rant)? Is reflex salbutamol prescription appropriate given the potential harms?
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Andy Conway Morris @andymoz78.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Critical care intubation hills I’m willing to die on (collating an occasional series from elsewhere). Each hill is based on experience and other people’s research (I claim no other expertise) #EMIMCC #PCCM #AnSky
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a cartoon drawing of a mountain with the sun shining through it
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a mountain with the sun shining through it, a dinosaur climbs the mountain and roars
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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Time for my first debunking thread on Bluesky #MedSky. All the usual misinformation about the #HPV vaccine is in this story.
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Katie Knight @katieknight.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So this place seems cool? Just gotta try something (taps mic) Bike helmets are pretty good at protecting people's brains and most people who ride a bike should wear one (ducks for cover) 😬
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Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org · 15/11/2024
Hi everyone 👋 Bluesky is growing so rapidly – so we want to share some key information about cancer, for anyone here who might need it. Nearly 1 in 2 people in the UK will get cancer – so if this thread might be of use to anyone you know, please pass it on to them. 1/3
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Rosie Baruah @rosieicm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This 2021 paper "The female medicla workforce" covers the basics of gender bias, and discusses isses relevent to anaesthetists such as menstruation, fertility, pregnancy and menopause associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The female medical workforce
In the UK, the proportion of female medical students has remained static over the last decade, at around 55%; however, at consultant level, only 36.6% of doctors are women. The reasons for this drop ...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
nytimes.com
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Agree Here’s a piece that @enirenberg.bsky.social & I wrote for TIME magazine about RFK Jr’s very extreme, dangerous anti-vaccine activism, including in Samoa I keep thinking I’m going to wake up & find that “RFK Jr is now leading US health policy” was just a nightmare time.com/6289037/robe...
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Robert F Kennedy Jr. Is Dead Wrong About Vaccines
There is no point in debating RFK Jr. on vaccines. He's wrong and has been proven so many times before
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Sharing data on ICU length of stay for critically ill covid patients & how that impacts on anyone else needing those resources. Oh and I enraged a peculiar cult of people that identify online as mice by sharing data showing vaccination massively reduced the need for ECMO support in severe Covid19
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Chetan Shenoy @cshenoy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
In 2019, we wrote a paper showing that patients with left ventricular thrombus have a long-term risk of embolism, extending to at least 8 years. We were puzzled by the finding… #CardioSky www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Figure 2 from the paper. Incidence of embolism in left ventricular (LV) thrombus patients compared with matched non-LV thrombus patients. Kaplan-Meier curves demonstrate the cumulative incidence of the composite embolic end point in the LV thrombus (in red) and in the matched non-LV thrombus (in blue) groups. Note the significant difference in the cumulative incidence of embolic events between the 2 groups.
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Lars Mølgaard Saxhaug @load-dependent.eurosky.social · 13/11/2024
It’s great that journals are coming over here, but what I have really missed after my departure from Twitter 2 years ago is this, the authors themselves presenting their works and discussing it with peers. #cardiosky #medsky #emimcc
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Dr Andreas Sotiriou @hasyourregtried.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A short introduction to total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) 🧵 TIVA is fast becoming the go-to anaesthetic technique for many, now making up to 26% of our GAs (according to NAP 7). As it is increasing in popularity, here is a little explainer for you all!
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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
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Iain Moppett OBE @iainmoppett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In honour of Amit Pawa’s arrival and his dad jokes… Why did RA-UK @rauk.bsky.social join Bluesky? Because the blocks are better.
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Any doctors that are poets and would like to join a zoom event in January to share their poetry? This is organised by a friend of my brilliant sister #medsky www.instagram.com/p/DCSXthPNuE...
Advert for a zoom event on 14/1/25 for doctors to share their poetry
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Sarah Medeiros, MD, MPH 🩺🎙️ @drsarahem.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Yikes.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A quick social experiment. The same tweet, posted at the same time on here and on Twitter, commenting on @joannahs.bsky.social’s brilliant piece on the exodus of criminal barristers. Bluesky replies on the left. Twitter on the right.
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Lee caluan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @leecaluan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Will bluesky hit 15 million today? bsky-users.theo.io
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Tharusha Gunawardena (he/him) @tharusha.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Atrial Fibrillation #FOAMED most common arrhythmia affecting around 10% of those over 65 (25% over 80) not necessarily a condition affecting those who are “unhealthy” - associated with endurance athletes famous people with AF - miley cyrus, tony blair, joe biden, elton john
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Sarah Medeiros, MD, MPH 🩺🎙️ @drsarahem.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
New starter pack! First attempt at curating a community of amazing #womeninmedicine Who else should I add? #MedSky
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Aoife Abbey 📟 🩺 ⚕️ @whistlingdixie.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Haematology in the ICU ….genuinely wish I wasn’t on-call for this one!! Still time to register with @ics-updates.bsky.social ics.ac.uk/learning/eve... 📟⚕️
ics.ac.uk
Haematology: Treating patients with blood disorders in ICU
This one-day event brings together a diverse group of experts to discuss crucial topics at the intersection of haematology and critical care.
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I’m new at this school so here’s my intro. I work in the East Midlands, UK as a consultant in ICU & Adult ECMO & occasionally give an anaesthetic. Main interests are critical care transfer, SARF, PICS/critical care follow up and large cats (here is Oli with my niece) #medsky #criticalcare
Oli the ginger maine coon with my 8y old niece
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Lest we forget “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.” Wilfred Owen was killed in action on 4 November 1918, a week before WW1’s end. He was 25 years old.
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Tharusha Gunawardena (he/him) @tharusha.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Medsky 📌 Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) Important potential cause for an acute MI in a young patient Whilst SCAD is considered a “generally” uncommon cause of ACS (0.1-0.4% of all ACS cases), it contributes to a third of ACS presentations in women <50
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Sethina Watson @sethina.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
What’s the deal with a starter pack? One click to follow nearly 150 accounts related to anaesthesia & critical care.
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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
It would also be good for people still on Twitter to post things like the UK showing an 90% drop in cervical cancer, between the vaccine protecting individuals and it blocking the spread of the disease. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
HPV vaccine stops 90% of cervical cancer cases
England began vaccinating teenage girls in 2008 and results show it is paying off.
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
What a refreshing change. Posts like this that aren’t immediately pounced on by hate and misinformation.
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Caz Sampson @cazsampson.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hello Bluesky. Hoping this platform will be like the twitter of old - somewhere to connect, share ideas, learn and generally make this little blue and green planet we are lucky enough to inhabit a slightly better place. 😊
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