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Stephen Pettit
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heart failure cardiologist. climber. cyclist. chilli grower. simpsons fan. data lover. R stats nerd. actually just all-round nerd.
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The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score is the most widely used tool for evaluating organ dysfunction.

This week, JAMA published the SOFA-2 score, an update that incorporates current organ support therapies and introduces new scoring thresholds.

ja.ma/49vYNe5
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reposted by Stephen Pettit
The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉

This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.

Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists.

But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned.

With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data.

#RainfallRescue began... 🧵
March 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Incredibly powerful campaign to encourage organ donation in Brazil #ISHLT2025

youtu.be/E99ijQScSB8
Flock Associates - Recife Sport club: Immortal Fans. Integrated Campaign by Ogilvy Brazil
YouTube video by FlockAssociatesLtd
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ten year outcomes after DCD heart transplantation at Royal Papworth Hospital presented by Hassiba Smail #ISHLT2025
April 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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great kickoff to #ishlt2025 Dr. Rebecca Cogswell presenting important updates to 🫀🫁 registry
April 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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It's #ISHLT2025 Pre-Conference day! More than 490 medical professionals have come together to dive deeper into #CardiogenicShock, #LungTransplantation, #LungFailure, #CTEPH, and #HealthEquity topics with experts from around the world. 💡🌏
April 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Agree.

All the physiological variables that contribute to shock are continuous. Need to move beyond categorisation.
ICU Hemodynamics:

We divide patients with circulatory shock into 3 primary hemodynamic phenotypes, namely hypovolemic, vasodilatory/distributive, & cardiogenic (including obstructive)

But we all witness/manage "mixed" shock, an entity lacking a uniform, evidence-based definition:
February 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Very proud of my colleagues who pushed hard to get the UK’s first clinical programme of EVLP up and running.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Machine to revive donor organs used in double-lung transplant in UK first
Exclusive: Daniel Evans-Smith tells of transformative effect of operation using technology that could cut waiting lists
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 6:37 AM
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I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R:

r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...
R Color Palette Finder
The ultimate tool for finding the perfect color palette for data visualization with R and paletteer. Explore over 2000 palettes, see them in action on various charts, simulate color blindness, and exp...
r-graph-gallery.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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This was a fun study leveraging social media to demonstrate the high prevalence in Impella malrotation among cases shared on old Twitter.
If it's malrotated, but it works well, without suction alarms or other problems, do you change it? #cccsky #cardiosky #emimcc
www.pcronline.com/News/Whats-n...
Impella percutaneous ventricular assist device malrotation in social media: a call to action
This study suggests that correct Impella orientation is often overlooked, and that Impella malrotation is a common issue in real-world clinical practice, potentially associated with relevant complicat...
www.pcronline.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by Stephen Pettit
Published in JAMA with #CCRdownunder:

In critically ill adults with suspected sepsis, antibiotic regimens were safely reduced when guided by measurement of procalcitonin but not by C-reactive protein. @criticalcarereviews.com

ja.ma/3BovM5v
December 9, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Predicted heart mass is the optimal metric for donor-recipient size matching in heart transplantation. But the maths is tough at 3am. Download our simple Heart Transplant Sizing App for free from the Apple Store.

apps.apple.com/gb/app/heart...
‎Heart Transplant Sizing App
‎Size matching is an important consideration in heart transplantation. It is important to avoid implanting an under-sized heart. Size matching has historically been performed using donor and recipient...
apps.apple.com
December 7, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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Happy to share our work developing a method for matching heart transplant donors-to-recipients using echo-derived donor left ventricular mass (LVM) for size matching which improved outcomes (especially in obese patients).
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

#JACCHF #echofirst #Cardiosky #Echosky #Medsky
The Association of Echocardiographically Measured Donor Left Ventricular Mass and 1-Year Outcomes After Heart Transplantation:
www.jacc.org
December 5, 2024 at 10:45 PM
hbiostat.org/rflow/
This is an exceptional resource and so useful for those (like me) making baby steps in #Rstats
R Workflow
R Workflow for Reproducible Data Analysis and Reporting
hbiostat.org
December 4, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Reposted by Stephen Pettit
Quarto 1.6 is out! 🎉 Download it here: quarto.org/docs/download/

Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. Blog post: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
Quarto 1.6 – Quarto
Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. There are also a couple of breaking changes that will af...
quarto.org
November 25, 2024 at 8:40 PM