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📰 The August #ASRANews is LIVE! Explore techniques adapted for extraterrestrial environments, learn a #POCUS guide for diaphragm assessment, and dive into a review of HIFU—a promising non-invasive approach for managing musculoskeletal pain. ➡ asra.com/aug25news
ALT The August 2025 issue of the ASRA Pain Medicine News is here, and features 14 new articles!
🏆 The 2025 CAS Honour Awards Program celebrated the incredible achievements of anesthesiologists across Canada at #CASAM2025 in St. John’s.
Congrats to all the recipients!
🔗 Full list of winners: ow.ly/exSz50WAi6T
Stay tuned for info about the 2026 program this fall!
This just arrived at my door. Thank you to @CASUpdate@CAS_IEF@wfsaorg for allowing me to be a part of your communities. I am honored to join some exceptional colleagues who have also received this award @WRajaleelan@dylanbould. Take the time to nominate your colleagues!
TRUMPET BLARE!!!! Niigaan and the Lone Ranger is back for a fourth season. We kick off with former MB Premier and former Cdn Ambassador to US Gary Doer, who tells us to keep calm and (don't hesitate) to tariff on. tinyurl.com/3dr3kf53#mbpoli#wpgpoli#cdnpoli
Amazing presentation by my dear friend Dr. @WRajaleelan who is deeply involved with Global Health, showing us how important it is for us, as doctors, to know what is happening around the world #LUCAS2025 Ottawa.
Clinical tests for confirming tracheal intubation or excluding oesophageal intubation
Misting
• has a false positive rate of 0.69, meaning it is present in 69% of oesophageal intubations
• has a positive likelihood ratio of 1.46, meaning that the presence of misting indicates that tracheal placement is only 1.46-fold more likely than oesophageal placement
Chest auscultation
• has a false positive rate of 0.14–0.18, meaning that 14–18% of oesophageal intubations will be incorrectly classified by this test
Oesophageal detector device
• has a false positive rate of 0.05; this means it will ‘miss’ 1 in 20 oesophageal intubations
Chest rise
• one animal study looking at 20 rats showed a false positive rate of 0.15
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I was reminded of something so powerful while listening to @Niigaanwewidam at TIFA today: in this reconciliation process, it can be frustrating. But always act in a manner with love. That’s it. So we press on ❤️❤️❤️
Very grateful to speak at the Canadian Surgery Forum with Drs. Rachel Livergant and Sam Bugis on Treaty 1 Territory and the birthplace of the Métis. Honoured to bring a message about how we can bring Reconciliation into our Operating Room Theatres.
Dr. Ariana Hillier, an FP-A from New Liskeard, talks about “the snowball effect” that losing anesthesia services in rural/remote locations can trigger, resulting in the loss of other vital medical services; all the more reason to invest in anesthesia HR #OAAM2024
Landed in Winnipeg and made it to the book launch for @Sensincmurr Who We Are, with @Niigaanwewidam & @TanyaTalaga. Of course I run into my cousin Sue Carrière there! Great to be home!
Today was a step in the right direction for healthcare reconciliation in Canada. The TRC describes what reconciliation means. There must be an awareness of the past, acknowledgment of the harm, atonement of the causes and action to change behaviour. Let’s keep it going.
Listening to the An apology for harms to Indigenous Peoples | CMA, Grateful to those affected by the tragic effects of systemic racism in the medical profession, the TRC, MMIWG, physicians like Alika Fontaine, James Makokis and scholars like Ian Mosby cma.ca/our-focus/indigenous-…
Finished a long day in the OR and wanted to get the goods on what the H@$L happened yesterday in BC politics. Silence from the usual suspects but not @EricGrenierTW who has @richardzussman explain seismic changes on the political right 🧨👨🎤 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…