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Kam Khan

@kilo14a

GP and pre-hospital care doctor experienced at working in remote, arduous, and hostile environments. Officer @BritishArmy, Fellow @RoySocMed, Fellow @RGS_IBG.

 United Kingdom
Joined November 2016
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Contact The Remote Adventure Support Trust for help, advice, training, and equipment to support your adventure. #rast – at Eastern, Kenya
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Hey @US_FDA Please give the US this simple, SAFE and effective patient-controlled, non-opioid analgesic! It has nearly 50 years of safety data at this point. Ping @armyemdoc
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Try @WildMedSociety!! The U.S. now has a drug for severe frostbite. How does it work? sciencenews.org/article/drug… @outdoormed @EndeavourMed @MedUltra @Theexpeditiond1 @kilo14a @lucyobol @FarawayMedicine @ADVMedics @WildMedix @Antarctic_ALE @AntarcticSteve
The U.S. now has a drug for severe frostbite. How does it work?

The U.S. now has a drug for severe frostbite. How does it work?

Iloprost has been shown to prevent the need to amputate frozen fingers and toes. It’s now approved for use to treat severe frostbite in the U.S.

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Chris Imray (@chrisimray) profile pictureChris Imray@chrisimray12 Mar 2024
Open access paper on how to actually use iloprost in frostbite extremephysiolmed.biomedcent… And 2019 @WMS frostbite guidelines journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… 2024 guidelines in press
Frostbite: a practical approach to hospital management

Frostbite: a practical approach to hospital management

Extreme Physiology & Medicine - Frostbite presentation to hospital is relatively infrequent, and the optimal management of the more severely injured patient requires a multidisciplinary...

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Lettuce at 58p – a good buy Liz Truss at Number 10 – a goodbye
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On current pace, King Charles could surpass his mother’s record of 15 prime ministers before the end of 2024
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What a great day to be a lettuce
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵 nytimes.com/2022/09/14/clima…
Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company (Published 2022)

Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company (Published 2022)

Yvon Chouinard has forfeited ownership of the company he founded 49 years ago. The profits will now be used to fight climate change.

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This morning, I wanted to extend my most devout prayers and deepest thoughts to the victims of the bear maulings at Heritage Village Retirement Community and their friends and loved ones. This was a terrible and senseless tragedy that could not have been avoided.
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youtu.be/8tCC9yxUIdw A prescient view on the impact of the internet from the great and much missed Thin White Duke. #DavidBowie #internet
Listen to Far and Away by A. A. Gill. Beautiful writing from the late and much missed A. A. Gill, narrated in a splendid languid tone just the right side of louche by Bill Nighy. audible.co.uk/pd/1474617409?…
Far and Away

Far and Away

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his...

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Every man an Emperor: our unit medical officer has not only earned his maroon beret after completing AAPPS, or ‘P Company’, but has received the top student award of ‘P Company Champion’. What an ally Doc! 🟩#Airborne @TheParachuteReg @16AirAssltBCT
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#grandescojones
Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) profile pictureAmy Spiro@AmySpiro28 Feb 2022
Who among us has not played "Hava Nagila" on a piano with their genitals on stage and then gone on to lead their country against a foreign invasion?
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#neglectedtropicaldiseases #gatesfoundation | Kam Khan

#neglectedtropicaldiseases #gatesfoundation | Kam Khan

https://lnkd.in/esx4iaED It is world Neglected Tropical Diseases day. These terrible afflictions cause so much suffering in the most economically vulnerable communities in the world, but because they...

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It is interesting that the cost of the Pret a manger drinks subscription which it in the news is a comparable amount to that your GP gets to provide unlimited care per patient.
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Sorry, I was wrong.
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The Pret subscription for coffee is £20/m. Your GP gets on average £155/year, so only £12.90/m!
Is there any wonder we never developed an understanding of Afghanistan when we couldn't even comprehend the terms Afghanistan - the country Afghan - the people Afghani - the currency
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I think this will be a good read. #ramc #army #militarymedicine
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Watching @Bourdain @PartsUnknownCNN visiting @IlNgwesiLodge and meeting the people. When the world opens up it will be wonderful to visit again.
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The Postman hardtravel.substack.com/p/th… Sign up for @AshRouten 's adventure writing for a measure of expedition in your inbox.
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The Arclight from @StAndrewsUniv Ophthalmoscope, otoscope, loupe, cobalt blue light, phone mount and more, even a little dragon! Brilliant kit, perfect for low resource medical settings and remote and exped med. @WildMedSociety @extremeexpo #wildernessmed #expeditionmed
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