Anaesthesiologist, student of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Joined May 2010
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Leon du Toit retweeted
28 Feb 2025
28 Feb 2025
Timely access to critical care saves lives in any health-care context.
On the cover, a Comment explores the findings of the ACIOS study investigating the prevalence, treatment, and outcomes of critically ill patients in African hospitals.
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ALT Cover of The Lancet March 1, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "The ACIOS findings suggest a large and neglected burden of critical illness, and a high incidence of preventable deaths from critical illness, in Africa."
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Leon du Toit retweeted
26 Mar 2024
Dr. @SunnyLouMD was awarded first place in the Best Clinical Research Abstract competition at #WCA2024! Her research on surgical transfusion risk prediction has the potential to enhance patient outcomes & streamline healthcare resources. anesthesiology.wustl.edu/lou…
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4 Mar 2024
We are reminded that while airway disasters are rare, aspiration remains a problem, we are bad at doing (=documenting) airway assessment, blind techniques like Fastrach LMA have low success rate, we need to support airway databases.
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Leon du Toit retweeted
24 Apr 2023
Results from the POISE-3 trial published in Annals of IM: Hypotension-Avoidance Versus Hypertension-Avoidance Strategies in Noncardiac Surgery: An International Randomized Controlled Trial acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/…
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Leon du Toit retweeted
18 Apr 2023
#ASOS Surgical Risk Calculator is now available on the Google Play store. Good for #Surgical Risk stratification in Africa. Thanks to @Net4PCc and @3tewodros and @Mr_FitsK for supporting the app development play.google.com/store/apps/d…
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Leon du Toit retweeted
2 Apr 2023
Congratulations to @ChristellaAlph1 and her family. Such a wonderful celebration of important #perioperative medicine work.
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VOCAL-Penn: best risk score for surgery in cirrhosis? Don’t just go with Child-Pugh. #Periop2023
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9 Mar 2023
Welcome to @SPAQIedu @PeriopSummit 2023 Orlando!
“Let’s get this party started.”
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Leon du Toit retweeted
30 Jan 2023
Important work by BASEL-PMI team showing adverse long-term outcomes after postop myocardial injury, irrespective of etiology and MI classification. Once again evidence that categorizing as "type II" and not addressing is detrimental to patients academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a…
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Leon du Toit retweeted
25 Jan 2023
High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I thresholds (Abbott) to identify myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery: a cohort study onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-2…
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Leon du Toit retweeted
11 Jan 2023
It turns out the relationship between perioperative benzos and postoperative delirium is not as clear as many think! More research required!@BJAJournals @DataPartyInc@PHRIresearch @ebelleycote@RichardWhitloc2 #bfree bjanaesthesia.org.uk/article…
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Leon du Toit retweeted
23 Dec 2022
TIPS for TIVA: Where to put the electrodes edition. Forehead not available? No problem. Pretty good trace and display. Nice gas induction to TIVA Eleveld model without opioid.great wake up. 👍😊
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Leon du Toit retweeted
21 Dec 2022
Defining the Aims of Perioperative Nursing Research in... : Anesthesia & Analgesia Thanks to @IARS_Journals for highlighting our research with a cool infographic and editorial. Infographic shows main findings. #APORG @AfricanSOS @Gill_Bedwell journals.lww.com/anesthesia-…
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Leon du Toit retweeted
19 Dec 2022
Save the date: 2024 World Congress of Epidemiology, Cape Town, South Africa - mailchi.mp/fd244f4bb117/save…
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