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Samantha Bates @iamSam_au

Research nurse advocate. Immediate Past Chair - Intensive Care Research Coordinator Interest Group (IRCIG) - ANZICS Clinical Trials Group.

Joined August 2017
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A/Prof Emma Ridley@ICUnutrition
9 Dec 2025
Congratulations to the trial team- Prof Michael Reade, PM Belinda Howe- great to see a @anzicsctg trial in lights again at #CCRDownUnder Also congrats to @iculisah and Zhomart who led this economic review alongside the trial @anzicrc
JAMA Network Open@JAMANetworkOpen
9 Dec 2025
Cryopreserved platelets can be stored for up to 2 yrs, compared to 7 days for liquid-stored platelets. This cost-effectiveness analysis found that cryopreserved platelets were costlier & less effective for managing bleeding in cardiac surgery.#CCRdownunder ja.ma/4iQw6vm
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Prof Daryl Jones@jones_daza
7 Feb 2025
Latest offering on in-hospital cardiac arrests in Australia sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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And that’s a wrap! Stepping up to the microphone @abcmelbourne #TheConversationHour today to discuss ICU survivorship with @HainesKimberley from @western_health and @CritCareUniMelb and @belmac_IC Listening to patient stories & striving to improve our care during & after ICU
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If you haven’t been following the UK COVID enquiry you must catch-up. The discourse of embedding research into clinical practice with available research infrastructure is vital. Funding support for #ClinicalTrialNetworks & #ClinicalResearchNurses is important!
Charlotte Summers@charlot_summers
11 Oct 2024
This week Ganesh and I gave evidence about the report we had written for the @covidinquiryuk. Our report can be found at covid19.public-inquiry.uk/do… For those that won't read a >100 page report (you should!), I thought I'd highlight some of our lessons learned/recommendations. 1/6
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Dr Kevin Fong@Kevin_Fong
26 Sep 2024
Thank you to the many thousands of people across the whole of the NHS & social care who helped deliver the care during the pandemic. Has been a strange and difficult day. But felt it was important to give witness to some small part of the enormity of the challenge we all faced.
UK Covid-19 Inquiry
@covidinquiryuk
26 Sep 2024
Prof @Kevin_Fong (Former National Clinical Adviser in Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response) is giving evidence to the Inquiry today. 📺 You can view it on the live stream (and via playback) through our YouTube channel now 👇👇 youtube.com/@UKCovid-19Inqui…
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Tanya@GongGasGirl
26 Sep 2024
Kevin is one of the smartest, most considered people I have ever met. His Covid inquiry testimony here:
Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social@chrischirp
26 Sep 2024
Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.
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Footscray Hospital are pleased to contribute 100 patients (and counting) to the @TrigsTrial @ctn_anzca Any excuse to celebrate with cake!
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This is an important #ClinicalResearchNurse workforce survey capturing metrics on employment contracts, line management, workplace environs and much more. Please respond and share accordingly.
Kelly Beer@KellyBeer9
16 Sep 2024
Very excited to finally be launching this Australian Clinical Research Nurse/Midwife survey. Please share so we can reach as many Australian CRN/Ms as possible! #ClinicalResearchNurses #ClinicalResearchMidwives #ClinicalTrials #WhyWeDoResearch murdochuni.syd1.qualtrics.co…
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Kelly Beer@KellyBeer9
16 Sep 2024
Very excited to finally be launching this Australian Clinical Research Nurse/Midwife survey. Please share so we can reach as many Australian CRN/Ms as possible! #ClinicalResearchNurses #ClinicalResearchMidwives #ClinicalTrials #WhyWeDoResearch murdochuni.syd1.qualtrics.co…
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Love this trial. Do you know how happy this will make ICU nurses? No more chasing the >4.5mEq/L target post cardiac surgery. Threshold of >3.6mEq/L is ok for patients, more cost effective and makes nurses happy. Win! Win! Win!
JAMA
@JAMA_current
31 Aug 2024
Presented today in #ESCCongress Hot Line session: Potassium Supplementation and Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery: The TIGHT K Randomized Clinical Trial, from JAMA, free to read online ja.ma/3X8Fboy
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NEJM
@NEJM
14 Jun 2024
Presented at #CCR24: In a randomized trial involving patients undergoing invasive ventilation, pantoprazole decreased the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding as compared with placebo but did not affect mortality. Read the full REVISE trial results: nej.md/3KD01Xp
The effect of pantoprazole as compared with placebo on the primary safety outcome of 90-day mortality.

ALT The effect of pantoprazole as compared with placebo on the primary safety outcome of 90-day mortality.

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Dr Karl@DoctorKarl
1 Jun 2024
"By the end of March there were 30,471 influenza cases – and 76 deaths – for the first three months of 2024. In the first three months of 2024, there were 95,861 cases of Covid-19 in Australia – and 1062 deaths." thenewdaily.com.au/life/2024…

Covid keeps killing more people in a month than flu does in a year

There are three times as many Covid-19 cases as influenza cases. And the death rate associated with Covid-19 is about four times higher.

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At our annual Victorian Affiliation of Research Nurses #VARN dinner. Can you add to this definition of #ResearchNurse ??
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In my backyard at 9:28pm #Melbourne #AuroraAustralis Visible with the naked eye. Just stunning.
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Caroline @caro-icu.bsky.social@Caro_Dew_
6 May 2024
Hard agree with A/Prof Caroline Marshall: "To me … any sort of nosocomial infection is a disaster," “Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows” by @Hayley_Gleeson abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/h…

Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in hospital, and experts say their deaths were...

Thousands of patients caught COVID in Victorian public hospitals in the past two years and hundreds died, fuelling concerns that health services aren't taking strong enough precautions against...

abc.net.au
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The fabulous @ruthendacott has joined us #downunder at @anzicsctg #IRCIG research coordinator workshop. Sharing the responsibility of patient advocacy in delivering research is everyone’s role in critical care.
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Hmmmm… packing for conference. What to wear, what to wear 🤔
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I love this story. Once a nurse, always a nurse. After losing her husband and surviving cancer, Neysa King came out of retirement and went back to uni abc.net.au/news/2024-03-03/m… via @ABCaustralia

At 70, Neysa is embracing the start of her 'retirement career'

Restless with retirement, former corporate high-flyer Nesya King didn't want to "wait for God". She was drawn back to her first career — nursing — and 30 years out of the game, she returned to...

abc.net.au
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So good to have a catch up with the hard working VIC Anaesthesia #ResearchCoordinators @ctn_anzca @ANZCA Thanks to @SofiaSquid for our @CritCareUniMelb venue and @RobPacker8 for your support!
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Thanks also to @gillyormo for getting us all together. And the most popular letters for trial acronyms are… ‘C’, ‘P’ and ‘T’
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