Danny Wong (黄永年)

What if.. the reason why we haven't found aliens or they haven't found us, is that any society that invents AI just destroys itself due to stagnation? Jobs being replaced and dwindling populations, civilisations just collapsing...

These days I'm much less chronically online than I used to be.. might not want to be chained to the phone for a long discussion all evening long.. happy to discuss intermittently here and there, without making it a featured event if you know what I mean?

How do the debates run?

The data from SNAP-2 that went into this study was collected by literally hundreds of collaborators across the UK back in 2016. My heartfelt thanks goes out to them for contributing to this and all the other papers that have resulted from that collaboration.

But also these data suggest that mechanistically the association might relate to poorer baseline fitness among people living in socioeconomically deprived areas. Perhaps these patients could benefit from targeted interventions to improve their baseline fitness.

This confirms much of what is already available in the literature: socioeconomic deprivation is associated with poorer postop outcomes.

Mortality risk was also higher: OR 1.75 (95% CI: 1.12–1.73) for IMD2 and OR 1.90 (95% CI: 1.22–2.95) for IMD1. However, after adjusting for markers of preoperative physical status and comorbidities, the association between deprivation and outcomes was attenuated.

Adjusting for patient characteristics and surgical factors, the odds ratios (ORs) for morbidity at day 7 were 1.26 (95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 1.09–1.47) for IMD2 and 1.32 (95% CI: 1.13–1.53) for IMD1, compared with IMD5.

We found those in more deprived groups were younger, had higher disease prevalence, and had greater illness severity to start off with.

The team looked at short term morbidity and 30-day mortality outcomes associations with socioeconomic deprivation, adjusting for baseline patient and surgical characteristics, in around 19k patients across around 240 hospitals in the UK.

Social deprivation and morbidity and mortality after surgery: a UK national observational cohort study Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with poor surgical outcomes. We assessed associations between deprivation and postoperative morbidity and mort…

New paper just dropped today, a secondary analysis using data from my PhD! Hard work spearheaded by Eimear Lusby.

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Looking forward to working with everyone!

We are delighted to welcome Danny Wong to our editorial board!

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I’m happy to share that I have been appointed as an Editor at @anaesjournal.bsky.social! Excited to start contributing to evidence based medicine and forwarding anaesthetic and scientific knowledge from the other side of the peer review process!

During the worst of the pandemic I'd make my way home after a shift on COVID ICU listening to songs on a playlist I kept.

Just listened to a few songs on this playlist this evening and suddenly felt a surge of emotion wash over me.

Resident doctors: don't underestimate how important you are. 🦀🦀🦀

SO MEGA!

Email invite to submit an article to the MEGA journal of surgery.

So tempted to just submit. I mean it's the MEGA JOURNAL OF SURGERY!

Keir Starmer promises migration drop as he unveils plans for 'tighter' visa rules Plans to ban the recruitment of care workers from overseas are among efforts to curb near record net migration.

Thanks for highlighting Jon. There's much work to be done on this, but this is all in whilst governments around the world are turning their backs on immigration. Xenophobia, racism and ethnic diversity are all linked... This problem extends beyond anaesthesia.

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Differential attainment in anaesthesia Antiracism in Anaesthesia · Episode

Thank you @sethina.bsky.social @dannyjnwong.bsky.social and Krithi Ravi for this podcast. The data is clear and the need for change is now. A must listen for all anaesthetists open.spotify.com/episode/6gw8...

Are all the words hyphae-nated?

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Happy Easter to all.

This is fascism. The censorship of scientific literature has begun. A new dark age is upon us.

Waste and cost assessment of total intravenous anaesthesia... : European Journal of Anaesthesiology | EJA An abstract is unavailable.

Waste and cost assessment of total intravenous anaesthesia in the context of environmental sustainability

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We are so back.

Look after yourselves everyone. Apply the oxygen mask to yourself first. If you need to step away for a bit, do.

I know we've all tried to move on. But I'm not sure we ever will truly move on. We probably just put it to one side for a bit. Until another moment reminds us of our past.

This was definitely true during COVID, when in the UK loads of us saw in hospital deaths on a completely unprecedented scale.

But for medics this could sometimes be daily occurrences, and there's very little opportunity to process or vent off the emotions that might build up.

This time he punctuated the humour with very dark truths that left me reflecting on my way home... In medicine we see some really grim scenes, and deal with some terrible situations. Often other people only encounter these situations infrequently in their own lives. Like death or violent trauma.