Blacksmith, tall ship sailor, EMT, nurse, anthropologist, model, artist, aspiring autodidactic polymath. Views and opinions my own. (she/they)
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Selene retweeted
How many A&E patients wait more than 12 hours between a decision to admit them to hospital and actually being admitted?
In August 2010, England's NHS recorded one case of this. Not 100, not 1,000. Just one.
In December 2022, it was 54,532.
Selene retweeted
Below is a short 2 minute primer on xylazine with the always informative @RyanMarino
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‼️New #Smart_er episode below‼️
Let's talk with the one and only @RyanMarino
"What is xylazine?"
🤷What is it & why does it matter?
🩺How is it different from #fentanyl ?
🫳What about those nasty skin effects?
All that in ~ 2 minutes!
Selene retweeted
In addition to causing horrendous skin wounds (below) #xylaxine is not reversible with naloxone (narcan) leading to challenges with bystander and prehospital care.
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Selene retweeted
.@mkemedexamine data shows that xylazine was in fentanyl overdoses in @mkecounty ...
1.0 % in 2020
7.9 % in 2021
10.4 % in 2022
In Philadelphia, it is in nearly 100%.
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Selene retweeted
NEW: data in #Milwaukee @mkecounty shows > 10% of fentanyl deaths also contain #xylazine
This is a concerning trend.
Zylazine...
🐴is an animal tranquilizer
💉added to fentanyl to prolong effects
💤compounds sedation
🩹causes skin wounds
🪦NOT reversible with narcan
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Selene retweeted
If you want to be a hero,
Learn CPR
Its really not that hard
And yes, you can literally save a life
Here are some basic tips from @NidaQadirMD
And a short video from @American_Heart
You can do it
➡️ Push hard & fast in the center of the chest 100-120x per minute
➡️ Aim to compress the chest a depth of 2 inches w/ each push
➡️ Allow complete chest recoil before the next compression
➡️ No mouth-to-mouth needed
Video demo from @American_Heart:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6bCbF…
Selene retweeted
Last night I captured an incredibly difficult shot: ISS transiting the moon, while gently kissing Tycho crater as it flies by at 5 miles per second. That crater is 53 miles wide, so while the station almost looks like it's orbiting the moon it's actually 1000x closer to us.
💚😂
C-SPAN has seen your memes of its House speaker election coverage. slate.trib.al/bwe2OOw
Selene retweeted
1. One in five US workers is bound by a noncompete clause, which restricts them from freely switching jobs, lowering wages and undermining fair competition.
Today @FTC proposed a rule to prohibit firms from imposing noncompete clauses on their workers.
ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
Selene retweeted
A union isn't an outside organization that comes in to help you, a union is YOU and your colleagues coming together to empower each other as a collective. And trust me, that's way more powerful.
Selene retweeted
This is at least as big a deal for labor rights as passing card check.
nytimes.com/2023/01/05/busin…
Selene retweeted
NEW: The FDA will now allow prescriptions for medication abortion, or the abortion pill, to be filled at pharmacies. 🫡🥹
This is BIG news for the fight to restore + expand abortion access in a post-Roe world — here’s why ⬇️ nyti.ms/3ImzEoW
The camera folks at CSPAN are just having a grand time with this. I bet they’re not used to this kind of viewership for routine procedural events! It’s fantastic.
Work gave us a new branded water bottle. I am covering it with insurgent stickers (more to come) and will take some quiet glee in taking it to the Meet and Discuss meetings with VPs and management.
ALT A white water bottle with a blue and red logo that says UW Health. The bottom of the logo is overlaid with a red sticker that says “in solidarity with nurses union.”
ALT A white water bottle with a vertically aligned progress pride flag, with the triangle of black brown and trans colors set over the rainbow. Below it is a white sticker which reads a laundry list of “nurses for ______” (various progressive causes the character limit for this description won’t allow)
Selene retweeted
Psst.
Records of 235 million Twitter accounts have been posted to an online hacking forum, setting the stage for anonymous handles to be linked to real-world identities. Researchers believe the hackers exploited a flaw in Twitter's internal verification system. wapo.st/3jQBmEJ
