Ex-Vet, GP, cake-loving runner, mad puppy owner
South East, England
Joined October 2015
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Sarah Burns retweeted
Covid intensive care is: hourly arterial blood samples to check oxygen levels, lines placed into arteries to sample them, lines in the jugular vein to replace electrolytes we have driven out of the body by trying to flush excess water from the lungs, lines into the neck and groin
Sarah Burns retweeted
Doctors & Long-COVID Support Group - provided through @DoctorsDistress. Starting 14th October. Weekly for 9 weeks (with gap across half term)
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Sarah Burns retweeted
Medics. Do join our @DoctorsDistress Long Covid support group
Our thanks to @amcarmichaelMP for raising doctors' experiences with #LongCovid in Parliament today. There needs to be far greater recognition of its lasting effect on people’s health.
Read more in @TheDrMagazine: bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/…
Sarah Burns retweeted
Any sight of COVID19 funding support for Primary Care as we move into winter 2020? - we are already seeing increased costs for PPE , isolation cover and further adaptations to buildings. Current support offered ended 1st Aug @NikkiKF @MattHancock #primarycare
Sarah Burns retweeted
Lots of talk about 60,000 #longcovid sufferers in the UK. Are we sure about this figure @timspector? Did 90% really recover after 3 months or did their fatigue extend to daily app logging? We aren't convinced: more research needed to #countlongcovid before this number sticks
Sarah Burns retweeted
Hello @DHSCgovuk, please send a text message to every person who tested positive for covid in the Test & Trace service between its start end May till July. Ask one question: “Are you back to your baseline health status before infection?” One text. Do it and let’s #CountLongCovid
Sarah Burns retweeted
Asking governments to #CountLongCovid is not scaremongering. It’s fact finding. What is the % of those infected who can’t go back to their usual activities of work & care for months? All the pitching of health against the economy would be so meaningless if the % is significant.
Sarah Burns retweeted
#bmjcovid @timspector on symptoms associated with #LongCovid - persistent cough, SoB, hoarse voice, headache, gastro. They can predict who will get it with 75% accuracy #LongCovid is twice as common in females than males. Different clusters in different age groups.
Sarah Burns retweeted
Rising number of confirmed #COVID19 cases with low admissions & deaths is only good news if there was no #LongCovid. Until we understand what’s causing the prolonged ill health in some of those infected, how it can be treated & what’s the prognosis, rising infections is bad news.
U.K. doctors who have been affected by long covid. Please complete this anonymous survey (credit - Nathalie MacDermott). Data being used to campaign for support at high levels incl Royal Colleges and BMA. #LongCovid #longhaulers
surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7X362WP
Sarah Burns retweeted
“We must move long-haul COVID from anecdote to something that is routinely quantified and monitored, as is currently being done with deaths and positive tests.”
@Dr2NisreenAlwan writing in the @TheLancet
#LongCovid
Dr Nisreen Alwan @Dr2NisreenAlwan makes the crucial point that we still don't have a proper case definition for *recovery* from #COVID19. Which means we're not properly able to assess morbidity #LongCovid thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Pretty worrying reading....
New Insights into How COVID-19 Causes Heart Damage | BioSpace biospace.com/article/release…
Sarah Burns retweeted
I feel like a broken record but here goes, only looking at deaths from #CV19 underestimates the pandemic implications. Many previously healthy people with #LongCovid unable to return to work/caring for months. Unless we properly measure the problem we're always playing catch up.
Sarah Burns retweeted
🚨 New BSI #COVID19 #immunology briefing note:
What we know about long-term health immunological consequences & priorities for research
3 recommendations to help understand what #SARSCoV2 & our immune response to it does to our health over the long term 👉bit.ly/3kIZ5Cu
Sarah Burns retweeted
💥We’re delighted to be back in Wessex from Feb 2020!💥
We’ve got an incredible group of leaders joining us to share their experience and learning, incl @didoharding @karen_kirkham2 @AlexAswhitfield @nfwatson26 @NickJHarding @domjhardy
Don’t miss it...
bit.ly/NGGPWessexApply
Sarah Burns retweeted
2 posters shortlisted from the Wessex supported stable @RCGPWessex @gp_education thanks to all our magnificent team members #GPEducationUnitSouthampton
Sarah Burns retweeted
@NextGGP presenter Sarah Burns presenting the programme evaluation at #AMEE2019 @nishmanek @DrHannahMorgan
