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Fascinating. The most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell by @CellSignal and @gmcgill modeled using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets.
More here: gaelmcgill.artstation.com/projects/Pm0JL1
Joanna Poole 💙 (@jopodr.bsky.social)
@Jopo_dr
Science. Anaesthetist & Intensivist. Life always a choice between hospitals&saving chimps in the Congo. Once slept in a museum. Mitochondria & Asgardarcheota
Joined July 2011
- 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
- Surge in (young) Covid admissions. Nearly all unvaccinated. All not fully vaccinated (as in, one jab). Consequences of Covid requiring hospital in 20-30 year olds is 30% chronic organ damage affecting lives one year later. By all means weigh up risks, but Covid is not a cold.
- I cancelled our wedding twice for covid. In the end ran away with just our parents and siblings, did my own hair and make up. Was kind of perfect actually!
- Replying to @Jopo_drBut it isn't really our dream hospital right now. Vigilante style videos of empty outpatients don't really do this reality justice. Death figures, don't do survival reality, justice.
- Something I truly cannot get my head around tonight is how all these consultant paediatricians went to their medical director, suspecting child murder, the royal college of paediatricians advised external death reviews, an external review said four deaths categorically needed
- Replying to @Jopo_drI've seen everyone from early thirties through to nineties, dying. The above is the story of icu survival, some never make it. Of course this represents a minority of covid patients, but it is bleak. Medics don't have a political agenda to oppress the masses.
- Replying to @Jopo_drTo attach people to artificial kidneys - blood is pumped out of the body, round a circuit, and back inside, after being filtered of toxins. It is being away from home for at least a week or two or six, never able to get your breath, only able to oxygenate with a pressure mask
- Got absolutely soggy, abandoned all of last year's wedding plans, had to do our own hair and make up, and clamber in rock pools barefoot (for the art...) but made it official today!
