Interesting to see so much focus on A&E waiting times. Last nights on call we were well staffed and triaging patients fine…No room at the inn to see anyone though due to patients in the dept waiting for non-existent inpatient beds all night. It’s not an A&E problem
@HumzaYousaf
Early days but a fantastic sight to see good news of Christian Erickson after an onfield cardiac arrest
@EURO2020
. Hats off to
@UEFA
for the Football Doctor Education programme. Delivering pitchside emergency care training for all nations under the leadership of
@sportpromote
Scottish Rugby has today announced the appointment of Dr David Pugh as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Dr Jonathan Hanson as Team Doctor for the men’s national team.
More ➡️
Almost certainly will never be repeated again. A ridiculous SEVEN rugby world cups & thirty years at the top of sport & rugby medicine. Great podcast from a friend and mentor. Gave me my first job!
@WorldRugby
@scotlandteam
@lionsofficial
@rugbyworldcup
Great to see my boss, mentor, trainer & most of all friend reach 250 international matches tomorrow for Scotland Vs Italy as Team Dr. The secret- be a good person & always do the best for health of the patient/player.
@lionsofficial
@FSEM_UK
@basem_uk
Both the
@FIFA
and
@UEFA
Football emergency courses for medics teach that this is a dangerous and unnecessary thing to do. A gentle temporary jaw thrust is all that is needed.
@sportbible
. How on earth has he been praised and how do we stop players doing this?
Great to be with the boss at his last home game after 250+ games.
#SCOENG
Pitchside medical team (plus Andrew & William the Paramedics who kindly took the photo) Orthopaedics, Emergency medicine, sports medicine, dentist, radiologist & of course head injury team.
#playerwelfare
What just happened? Unbelievable conclusion to the season with two tricky and away playoffs in opposite sides of the globe with 52000 home fans and WE DID IT!
@GlasgowWarriors
@URCOfficial
As detailed on
@BBCRadioScot
1. Off the ball collapse is cardiac arrest until proven otherwise.
2. Athletes may twitch or gasp - don’t confuse this with “normal breathing”.
3. CPR and prompt defibrillation save lives. Make this the absolute priority.
He’ll shy away from it and many others involved, but today’s a good day to credit
@sportpromote
of
@ScottishFA
for driving the standards around immediate care and CPR training
@UEFA
level via the Football Doctor Education Programme for all 55 nations.
Proud our Emergency department
@nhsfife
in Kirkcaldy is third best in the UK for training experience by the GMC survey. Trust, integrity, commitment and fun -key values which I see every day. Lucky to work in great teams recently. We even have a sports medicine consultant in ED
….and the third of four travel groups is back in Glasgow airport. Which is me- on my tod. Arrived in full kit and with medal around my neck obvs. But why not. Still can’t quite believe the last two to three weeks. Reward for the players and staff for years of effort and almosts.
Checking the bags for the next sports trip. In time critical emergencies, storing kit in ergonomically friendly ways makes for a faster & calmer response. This bag folds to a flat table and is arranged in ABC format with Velcro pouches for things like AED. The best I have used
Absolute legend.
The most influential person and my trainer for last 20 years. His longevity and success has been through professionalism, good values and treating players like patients.
He will be missed and leaves unfillable shoes (boots!) for my generation of sports docs.
Lovely touch from the NHS. Unannounced and unexpected thank you certificate from
@nhshighland
. 20 years and a couple extra in Australia. How’s that possible- I still feel like a youngster. (Work for
@nhsfife
in last couple of years but still on the books for old Skye job.)
Shift over. That is that for 2020. Best wishes to all frontline workers who are working over Hogmanay- but especially my brilliant colleagues in our Emergency department
@nhsfife
& former colleagues in Broadford Hospital on Skye
@NHSHighland
. Enjoy the curry at the Bells everyone
One of my two fave Skye photos from living there. The view from the urgent care/minors unit in Portree Hospital. If there is a better view from a hospital I’d like to see it?
End of the season and end of my three years with
@England
football. Great people, great values. Thanks to the performance team and players.
@DannyWelbeck
- the real Wozza has now left the building! All efforts back on Rugby and preparing our athletes for Tokyo Olympics!
Disappointed to hear soft head guards being pushed as valuable in concussion prevention at a school sports conference this week. Evidence remains that they give a bigger head volume (so more scope for contacts), no protection against concussion and potentially riskier behaviour
@nrlphysio
Puts sinus air under the skin....but also puts it behind the eye and increases retro-orbital pressure and can* damage the optic nerve. Best practice is not to use nose blowing as an onfield diagnostic test, but to look for inferior rectus snagging on upward gaze instead
Strangest feeling of my life tonight. At 49 yrs and 364 days I finally have a feeling of mortality and feeling “old”, yet lucky to still be here, unlike Al, unlike Russ, unlike John, Still doing cool stuff, with a cool family. Very fortunate. But definitely- old and mortal.
I support the junior doctors today. All public services are affected. You can’t take talented people, give them over 100k debt, life and death responsibility, then ten years of year on year pay degradation with 2-3k fees just to go to work without standing up for all workers
My final sport has finished so plans for home. What a fantastic positive experience
@tokyo2020
has been. I’ll miss the regular sweat box 6am runs within the village.
@TeamGB
@Tokyo2020
. Thanks to all the volunteers who make the games. Congrats to all the athletes.
“SCRUMCAPS” Scottish Rugby Union medical cardiac and pitchside skills teaching faculty 2022. Good to be helping with teaching pitchside emergencies and skills again last week for the benefit of (rugby) player welfare in Scotland
@Scotlandteam
It’s not enough for a community to “buy a defibrillator”. It needs local champions to look after it, publicity to promote it, & community CPR training to remove fear of using it. Hold a public fundraising for 50% of the cost & our charity
@Lucky2BHere1
provide an AED & training
As I move on after seven seasons - here is the advert for any suitably qualified sports medicine doctors who might be interested in the Team Dr role at leading professional rugby team
@GlasgowWarriors
in the
@URCOfficial
Take a look!
It is with sad and heavy hearts that we share the passing of one of our most valued members, Alistair Dewar. Al was a kind, big hearted, outstanding man who was at the centre of creating Save a Life for Scotland. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this time 💙
Brilliant Scottish sports medicine gathering in Glasgow to celebrate the career & recent retirement of
@ScottishFA
@commonwealthgames
@UEFA
&
@FIFA
medical legend Dr John Maclean. 229 matches as team Dr for the Scottish men’s football team, & a significant role in developing us
End of another 3 days
@MurrayfieldStad
delivering the
@Scotlandteam
pitchside medical emergency course known as SCRUMCAPS. (Scottish Rugby Union Medical Cardiac and Pitchside skills). Player and staff welfare initiative now is in 17th year.
@WorldRugby
#playerwelfare
To the young man who paid my £85 bill at the checkout
@Tesco
in Alloa when I realised I had forgotten my wallet. Thank you. I will pass on your Christmas spirit. He wouldn’t take my details to refund him. I want to though.
@alloatiser
@NickyAACampbell
@rachelburden
@StephenNolan
The 5 sisters of Kintail today. A regular view on the Lochcarron road from Skye to Inverness. Days like today it's hard not to miss living in the Highlands.
Melancholy morning after last nights final loss. Great group -great values playing a great brand of rugby. All the best to players & staff departing esp Physio's Nicola Mcguire (who I've been lucky to work alongside since 2007) and Gabby McCullough
@GlasgowWarriors
@PRO14Official
Big collision in the Scotland game. If there’s anyone you want out there in football it’s
@ScottishFA
team doc
@sportpromote
. He runs all of the football emergency medicine training for all international football Drs & Physios Scotland /
@UEFA
and
@FIFAMedical
@BBCSport
Bit of a poor headline
@bbc5live
“GP’s paid £10 per covid jab”... that’ll be as GP practices are small businesses with budgets etc ..so to fund the staffing/waste disposal/additional PPE for mass vaccination the practice gets £10 per head. It’s not £10 in the docs pocket.
Christmas edition of
@GlasgowWarriors
online programme - still with full page article reminding everyone to be cautious with concussion and that there is no HIA in the amateur game and players should be just removed on any level of suspicion. It’s “If in doubt sit them out”
@SpaceClinics
Wider audience- Important to note that all medical staff in professional /representative Rugby & football train for, practice & are assessed on these skills regularly via Union and
@WorldRugby
approved courses to safely handle the injured player since about 2007. So true experts
Took slightly more than a weekend and I’ll be selling pizza slices at £15 a shot to pay for it.... but spring project over!
@HughFW
. Thanks it was great fun making it...
#rivercottageclaypizzaoven
. From scratch!
Now that Sports concussion had a podium presentation at a major UK
@RCEMLearning
conference. I’d like to reflect -what can be done in the Emergency department and the key role emergency staff have.
1. Most concussion presenting will not be from sport but may play sport
#RCEMcpd
We all need a ‘feel-good’ story right now !
10 weeks ago
@michaelfats
was facing a very uncertain future, paralysed from the neck down following a rugby accident.
This is him today (credit
@tatianafats
Instagram) ❤️💪🏼
🇫🇯 Warriors and Fiji have always had a connection and our thoughts right now are with everyone who has been affected by Cyclone Yasa.
Our own Weegies fae Fiji have recommended the below link as a way to support the ongoing relief effort on the ground 👉
Little bit of 2019 personal pride.. my
@HughFearnleyW
clay pizza oven. Supposed to take a weekend. Took me 6 weeks &12 separate trips to
@BandQ
. Mosaic tiled it to accommodate the Scottish winter. It’s great though & makes
@great
pizza! Lighting it tonight as the sun sets on 2019
Not my photo. Courtesy of Skye pal and former work colleague Graham Wilson. But stunning image of Blaven and Beinn Na Callaich in central Skye at sunrise this morning. (
@KellyLander3
)
Fin-ished!!!!!! feel like I’ve given birth.... hopefully that will protect it against the Scottish winter...................... plus tarpaulin, plus pergoda....
Another beautiful morning up in the Ochils behind Dollar on the doggy walk. Clearing the head after the weeks work and last nights game. Apparentlyyou were up here this week
@JohnBishop100
?
Well played
@GlasgowWarriors
- a full page in the match programme for
@scotgovhealth
@sportscotland
grassroots Concussion campaign logo. Scotland became the first nation in the World to have a single guideline for all grassroots sport to make it easier for everyone
@DrGregorSmith