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Lars Svarthaug @svarthaug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you have students who really want to dig into it, with an emphasis on failed O2-delivery, I would recommend www.theo2comp.com I don't think it is widely known yet, but a retired Norwegian anaesthesiologist has made a digital version of his book. 435 pages free pdf🤩 #ansky #medsky #foamed

theo2comp.com

The O2 compendium

Learn more about the pathway of oxygen transport from inspired gas to tissue metabolismin health and disease, and the acid-base balance and its impact on oxygen transport.

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Australian Society of Anaesthetists @asa-australia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The CSC takes place during the Spring school holidays which is the perfect time to visit the Hunter Valley Gardens with the family! Don't miss out on the Combined Scientific Congress 2026 (CSC26)! 📍 Hunter Valley, NSW 📅 8–11 October 2026 Register today: csc2026.com.au/speakers

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Royal College of Anaesthetists @rcoanews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’d love to hear your thoughts! The draft GPAS chapter on Perioperative Care of Elective and Urgent Care Patients is open for feedback, and everyone’s input matters—whether you’re a clinician or stakeholder. The consultation closes on October 2nd. Share your views 👉 ow.ly/P0qy50ZKJPs

Public consultation:
Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m off to the UK tomorrow for @rcoanews.bsky.social Anaesthetic updates (think my 5th one now!) they’re quite good. Come say hi if you’re there 😊 I see @bilih.bsky.social royalty is going to be in the house…

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The top storage iPhone duo will be 5900 bucks in australia- feck me! The base version is 3.5k. In your hand, waiting to be dropped…

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve just done the @anzca.bsky.social unconscious bias module on their e-learning platform. I have done some previous training and tests on this… Turns out I have a couple of biases that I haven’t noticed before specifically the halo effect. Very easy to compare our registrars to one and other… 👎

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Australian Society of Anaesthetists @asa-australia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

R U OK? Day reminds us of the importance of connection and conversation. The ASA understand the complexities of the role of an anaesthetist. It's important to have access to support and resources that can help. You can access a range of wellbeing resources via the ASA website.

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is #Fingertips - our new music video in support of @samaritans.bsky.social and released today on #WorldSuicidePreventionDay If you can, we'd really appreciate a small donation to our fundraiser for them - aiming for £1,000 by the end of this month. Do share 🙏❤️👇 tiltify.com/@themarshfam...

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Humanist Society Scotland @humanistsociety.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

England & Wales voted for #AssistedDying. The unelected House of Lords blocked it. This Friday, MPs at Westminster have the chance to right that wrong. Tell your MP to do the right thing: click this @humanists.uk link humanism.eaction.org.uk/assisted-dyi... #Autonomy #Dignity #EndOfLifeChoice

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 24/08/2026

🧵 (Part 1) Science is Not Just for Scientists In a few short years we have seen the rise of scammers, quacks, unlettered politicians assuming critical health infrastructure roles (with predictably devastating results) and more. Should "Science" just be for scientists? 1/25

A large collage of notable scientists including Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 08/09/2026

'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not once when I was in the UK did I see anyone walking their dog whilst drinking a beer… I feel that, culturally, the Brit’s may have missed out…

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Project for Universal Management of Airways @universalairway.org · 29/08/2026

Technique for hyperangulated videolaryngoscopy (Part 2) From PUMA Foundation Guidelines 1st page of graphic on prev post Full free text of guideline in @anaesjournal.bsky.social at associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Project for Universal Management of Airways @universalairway.org · 29/08/2026

Technique for hyperangulated videolaryngoscopy. From PUMA Guidelines for providing a foundation for airway management 2nd page of graphic on next post Full free text of guideline in @anaesjournal.bsky.social at associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can confirm: airfryer bread is delicious. And at $9 for a box of premix that makes 4 big loaves or 8 mini-loaves (the size shown here) it's cheaper than storebought and probably better quality too.

Two freshly baked mini-loaves sitting in airfryer baskets.

A loaf sliced to show the internal crumb.

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you’re a surgeon and you send a 79 year old who’s smoked for 60 years for major surgery who is SOB w mild frailty and don’t discuss the possibility of death, major adverse outcomes, increased frailty etc and then I surprise them in clinic with talk of the same - then I will wish a pox on you FFS…

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Anaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here's the new Extubation Algorithm from PUMA! @universalairway.org @Chrimesy.com #AnSky #MedSky doi.org/10.1111/anae...

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Haven’t read it yet but I find bellowing “open your eyes” and pulling works…

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Speaking to a nursing home worker yesterday “half of them wouldn’t be there if they’d kept themselves fit…” oof.😥

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#RAsky learnt radial n block under brachioradialis recently and I wish I’d cottoned onto that earlier. Easy to see on USS, great for forearm lacs or MCP fractures…

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey @assocanaes.bsky.social when your QRH is being renewed can you add a page for emergency management of the tracheostomy?

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#ansky retatrutide coming triple agonist - 20-25% weight loss - thriving black market. Remember to ask your patients if they are taking injectables (non prescribed) …

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#ansky looks like amiodarone is moving to being given early in cardiac arrest… possibly before adrenaline

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#RASky interesting that apparently 94% of regional in kids is done asleep we still seem to favour awake in adults 🤔

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ansky the physiologically difficult airway. 2-4% cvs collapse consistently in studies for 25 years in the “sick” patient.

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ansky 93% of office airways are unpredicted. So you might want to train for that eventuality… but failure of assessment and planning is key, not failure of equipment…

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ansky celecoxib is better than morphine (nnt) and under prescribed… ANZCA has a guideline www.anzca.edu.au/getContentAs...

anzca.edu.au

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ansky don’t prescribe gabapentinoids for acute pain. Why? Because they don’t work. They are difficult to wean. It’s a waste of money…

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ansky AF is a marker of badness, rate and underlying heart function important to understand.

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ansky icu updates AQUA26 aiming for SpO2 90 vs 96 - no difference in mortality. So don’t stress about that…

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ansky conversation about VL in ICU. This has been answered now - use a VL. We can stop studying it… (87 vs 78% first pass success)

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Annual Queenstown Update in anaesthesia - I’ll post a few tidbits as we go eh…

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists @thenzsa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A big week ahead - wishing all of the Trainees sitting tomorrow's written and next week's Primary written exams the very best. Waimarie pai - Good luck

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Ian Power @ihpower.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If anyone ever says "Give me a ballpark figure?" say 41,649. That's the capacity of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. You're welcome.

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Pt77 for lap chole. BP 95, HR 115, confused, IHD and T2DM. What else do you want to know? How are you going to induce them? #ansky

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Kate Prior @doctorwibble.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This evergreen gem from @drphiliplee1.bsky.social is required reading for all hospital staff in the run up to induction day.

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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧 @lotusgav.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And don’t get me started on advance care directives… by the way if you don’t have a will. Do that. Please.

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