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Tim Cook
@doctimcook
Bath-based anaesthetist/intensivist. I study medical complications to improve safety. Own views except where I knick others’. Insta @timcooksnaps. Airway goblin
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    Tim Cook
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    Jul 21, 2025
    Here's a humdinger.... "Assessing the incidence of ‘can see, cannot intubate easily’ during routine use of C-MAC videolaryngoscopy." Is it a real problem - with a MacVL - with a HAVL Well basically no! Another cracking science letter from the team @anaesthesia @Fionafionakel
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    Tim Cook
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    Apr 25, 2024
    Replying to @wesstreeting
    Thanks for asking As some one who has worked in the NHS for 35 yrs and examined its working throughout that time my list of what needs changing would start with Stop breaking the system by defunding it in the name of efficiency. It is way beyond the point at which trying to cut
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    Tim Cook
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    Aug 15, 2020
    Replying to @bbcnickrobinson @drphilhammond and @BBCr4today
    Excellent interview by College Admissions Tutor Prof Laura Ash. "As these students were not going to have sat any exams there was not going to be any new information that could justify rejecting someone to whom we had already made an offer"
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    Tim Cook
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    Mar 27, 2025
    Hello my name is…. Time to include full name, title & role Patients need to know who is treating them. Colleagues need to know who they’re talking to. This is increasingly so as workforce changes mean roles may be opaque! Equally important in ‘flash teams’ in acute care
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    Tim Cook
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    Jul 27, 2022
    I’ve not seen this before….but is there anything on the page to disagree with?
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    Tim Cook
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    Mar 25, 2020
    So here’s a plea. No more ‘standard’, ‘full’ & ‘enhanced’ PPE PPE matches the route of transmission - contact precautions - droplet precautions - airborne precautions Use of this language would cut through a lot of confusion. 1/2
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    Tim Cook
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    Feb 9, 2021
    Great clear infographic @ICS_updates One to keep up the sleeve when someone asks why ICU occupancy hasn’t increased Well done all ICU staff Remarkable
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    Tim Cook
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    Mar 5, 2020
    This letter from Italian Intensivists is measured and scary. If your hospital hasn’t made these plans now is exactly the time to start making them. #notbusinessasusual4icu mailchi.mp/esicm/the-futu…
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    Tim Cook
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    Dec 21, 2020
    Coughs make aerosols It's long been time for ward staff to upgrade to FFP3 around coughing patients and those with COVID The urgency for this is dramatically increased by the new variant virus No one seems interested.... @TheLancet @bmj_latest @PHE_uk
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    Tim Cook
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    Apr 18, 2025
    “Hello, my name is” introductions & badges need updating to include full name, title & role bmj.com/content/bmj/38… Choices choices
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    Tim Cook
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    Aug 15, 2020
    Replying to @doctimcook @bbcnickrobinson and 2 others
    Prof Ash "The algorithm literally copied the inequalities that currently exist in our education system" "OFQUAL..made the grade distribution across the country look right, but they can't possibly tell us they've given the right grades to the right people" Guess that's about it
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    Tim Cook
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    Jan 4, 2023
    Amidst the gloom at the NHS crisis its easy to forget one factor: sociomedical success In the last 30 yrs UK health has been transformed.The predictable consequences required long term planning which appears absent A 🧵 of old slides (2017) but they still make the point 1/n
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    Tim Cook
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    Nov 3, 2021
    PREVENTING UNDETECTED OESOPHAGEAL INTUBATION. A thread @RCoANews @dasairway @ICS_updates @FICMNews @CollegeODP @SaferSurgeryUK @BACCNUK @MartinBromiley It is rare It is fatal It is avoidable Sadly it still happens 1/16 rcoa.ac.uk/news/rcoa-das-…
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    Tim Cook
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    Apr 8, 2024
    CARDIAC ARREST DURING OR AFTER SURGERY IN UK PRIVATE HOSPITALS This is a timely reminder that all healthcare has risks & safety is at the heart of everything we should be doing. Timely also as I was speaking today to the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) about
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    BBC Health News
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    Apr 8, 2024
    Spire Healthcare: Death of NHS-funded private patient raises safety concerns bbc.in/3xzOrsF
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