Ben Morton
@benmorton.bsky.social
Senior Clinical Lecturer @lstmnews.bsky.social
Crit Care Consultant @nhsuhlg.bsky.social
Editor @anaesjournal.bsky.social
Website: https://research.lstmed.ac.uk/en/persons/benjamin-morton-7
Research: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6164-2854
Crit Care Consultant @nhsuhlg.bsky.social
Editor @anaesjournal.bsky.social
Website: https://research.lstmed.ac.uk/en/persons/benjamin-morton-7
Research: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6164-2854
One year follow up data published with @anaesjournal.bsky.social to round off this piece of work. We've also taken the step of providing open access to the dataset available via a link this publication for investigators in the field.
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
🧪 #medsky #IDsky
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🧪 #medsky #IDsky
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One year follow up data published with @anaesjournal.bsky.social to round off this piece of work. We've also taken the step of providing open access to the dataset available via a link this publication for investigators in the field.
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
🧪 #medsky #IDsky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
🧪 #medsky #IDsky
Lovely systematic review from Emma Carter published yesterday from @lstmnews.bsky.social. Invasive BCG infection is tricky to manage - we were thinking about this for our research (more later) but I think has implications for clincial use too.
www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
🧪 #IDsky #Medsky
www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
🧪 #IDsky #Medsky
Systematic review of antimycobacterial therapy for Bacille Calmette-Guérin infection in hosts without significant immunocompromise
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only licensed vaccine against tuberculosis, in
use for over 100 years and is usually delivered intradermally [1]. More recently,
BCG has been used as intravesical ...
www.ijidonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lovely systematic review from Emma Carter published yesterday from @lstmnews.bsky.social. Invasive BCG infection is tricky to manage - we were thinking about this for our research (more later) but I think has implications for clincial use too.
www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
🧪 #IDsky #Medsky
www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
🧪 #IDsky #Medsky
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Slideset for my talk at #waam2025 celebrating the best airway papers published in @anaesjournal.bsky.social over the past 10 years
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WAAM 2025: Top Airway Papers 2015-2025
This is the slide set for my talk at WAAM 2025 The aim was to review key publications in Anaesthesia over the past 10 years that were of relevance to airway management. WAAM 2025Download
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Slideset for my talk at #waam2025 celebrating the best airway papers published in @anaesjournal.bsky.social over the past 10 years
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October 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Arterial catheter complications:
• 13/100 catheters failed for any reason
• 20/100 catheters failed for reasons not caused by infection
• bloodstream infections - 1/100 catheters
• local infections (around the area where the catheter goes in) - 1/100 cases
#ICUSky #AnSky
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• 13/100 catheters failed for any reason
• 20/100 catheters failed for reasons not caused by infection
• bloodstream infections - 1/100 catheters
• local infections (around the area where the catheter goes in) - 1/100 cases
#ICUSky #AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Arterial catheter complications:
• 13/100 catheters failed for any reason
• 20/100 catheters failed for reasons not caused by infection
• bloodstream infections - 1/100 catheters
• local infections (around the area where the catheter goes in) - 1/100 cases
#ICUSky #AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
• 13/100 catheters failed for any reason
• 20/100 catheters failed for reasons not caused by infection
• bloodstream infections - 1/100 catheters
• local infections (around the area where the catheter goes in) - 1/100 cases
#ICUSky #AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
I think the omerta around Brexit needs to end. Labour are playing the Reform/far right game but they're (rightly IMO) sticking to the rules whereas oponents do not. What Labour (and the Lib Dems) need to do is change the game - highlight the failings of Brexit and grasp the nettle!
Labour: "We couldn't possibly begin negotiating with the EU to eventually rejoin. That would make the next GE all about Brexit."
Reality: "Yes, and so what? At the moment everything is about immigration, and you are LOSING very VERY badly indeed."
Reality: "Yes, and so what? At the moment everything is about immigration, and you are LOSING very VERY badly indeed."
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I think the omerta around Brexit needs to end. Labour are playing the Reform/far right game but they're (rightly IMO) sticking to the rules whereas oponents do not. What Labour (and the Lib Dems) need to do is change the game - highlight the failings of Brexit and grasp the nettle!
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Check this out! Thanks for including Akira Alexander (not on Bluesky) and myself. Well done Yonca, Clive and colleagues.
New paper out in iScience @cellpress.bsky.social
We show that #sand_fly biting reprograms skin fibroblasts, making them more permissive to virus infection
=> #fibroblasts aren’t bystanders, they help define severity/clinical outcome to infection AND #vector biting is key
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
We show that #sand_fly biting reprograms skin fibroblasts, making them more permissive to virus infection
=> #fibroblasts aren’t bystanders, they help define severity/clinical outcome to infection AND #vector biting is key
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Check this out! Thanks for including Akira Alexander (not on Bluesky) and myself. Well done Yonca, Clive and colleagues.
@lstmnews.bsky.social scientists contributing to potentially transformative interventions designed prospectively for disadvantaged populations.
A paper in Nature presents an experimental recombinant antivenom to protect against bites from some of Africa’s deadliest snakes—including mambas, cobras, and rinkhals—that has shown promise in treating mice. go.nature.com/4ogT80d #medsky 🧪
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
@lstmnews.bsky.social scientists contributing to potentially transformative interventions designed prospectively for disadvantaged populations.
Looking happy about it! We’re just boarded on Eurostar going to Barcelona. Takes longer sure but the experience so much nicer than airports (+obvs climate considerations)
Train trip from Cambridge to Munich for #ESICMlives congress completed- night train from Paris to Munich, arriving with plenty of time to get our #AntimicrobialStewardship and #Sepsis precongress course organised and underway. 250kg of CO2 avoided and looking forward to the congress.
October 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Looking happy about it! We’re just boarded on Eurostar going to Barcelona. Takes longer sure but the experience so much nicer than airports (+obvs climate considerations)
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Patients on propofol in ICU often report negative & disturbing experiences, with distorted perceptions of reality, delusions & hallucinations.
Propofol is unlikely to achieve reliable unconsciousness and may contribute to a negative dying experience.
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
Propofol is unlikely to achieve reliable unconsciousness and may contribute to a negative dying experience.
#AnSky
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October 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Patients on propofol in ICU often report negative & disturbing experiences, with distorted perceptions of reality, delusions & hallucinations.
Propofol is unlikely to achieve reliable unconsciousness and may contribute to a negative dying experience.
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
Propofol is unlikely to achieve reliable unconsciousness and may contribute to a negative dying experience.
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
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What if almost everything we know about addiction is wrong?
October 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
What if almost everything we know about addiction is wrong?
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Same planet, different worlds.
October 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Same planet, different worlds.
Mushroom season on the canal towpath by our house.
October 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Mushroom season on the canal towpath by our house.
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Beautiful Autumnal colours in Worthington Park this evening
October 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Beautiful Autumnal colours in Worthington Park this evening
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👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
October 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
Really nice summary - thanks @apsmunro.bsky.social
Pleased to share my new post looking at the recent successes and turbulence in the development of therapeutics for infant RSV protection
Much progress made - but there’s more to do still!
#IDSky #PedsID 🧪
Much progress made - but there’s more to do still!
#IDSky #PedsID 🧪
Protecting babies against RSV
The last two years have changed the landscape of RSV disease prevention
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October 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Really nice summary - thanks @apsmunro.bsky.social
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New research shows that people in Malawi admitted to hospital with breathlessness are much more likely to die within a year than other patients.
Read more: lstm.ac/4n4gC8i
Read more: lstm.ac/4n4gC8i
Breathlessness increases long-term mortality risk, Malawi study finds
Research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme shows that over half of hospital patients with breathlessness had died within a year of admission
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September 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New research shows that people in Malawi admitted to hospital with breathlessness are much more likely to die within a year than other patients.
Read more: lstm.ac/4n4gC8i
Read more: lstm.ac/4n4gC8i
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Individualized perioperative MAP targets did not lower rates of organ injury or death after major abdominal surgery compared with routine blood pressure management at MAP ≥65 mm Hg.
#ANES25 @asahq.bsky.social
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#ANES25 @asahq.bsky.social
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October 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Individualized perioperative MAP targets did not lower rates of organ injury or death after major abdominal surgery compared with routine blood pressure management at MAP ≥65 mm Hg.
#ANES25 @asahq.bsky.social
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#ANES25 @asahq.bsky.social
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Now for some light Friday afternoon reading - a virtue ethics review on mandatory training for rare anaesthetic events.
Have a great weekend!
#AnSky
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Have a great weekend!
#AnSky
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October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Now for some light Friday afternoon reading - a virtue ethics review on mandatory training for rare anaesthetic events.
Have a great weekend!
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
Have a great weekend!
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
Congratulations to Sangwani Salimu on publication of the first paper from her PhD thesis with support from
@lstmlibrary.bsky.social . She's also successfully submitted her thesis for examination @lstmnews.bsky.social - looking forward to a positive outcome!
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@lstmlibrary.bsky.social . She's also successfully submitted her thesis for examination @lstmnews.bsky.social - looking forward to a positive outcome!
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Self-management of chronic conditions including multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic and meta-synthesis review with focus on diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and HIV
The increasing prevalence of multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is an urgent concern for health service delivery, yet little is known about how best to support self-management- the tasks patie...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Congratulations to Sangwani Salimu on publication of the first paper from her PhD thesis with support from
@lstmlibrary.bsky.social . She's also successfully submitted her thesis for examination @lstmnews.bsky.social - looking forward to a positive outcome!
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
@lstmlibrary.bsky.social . She's also successfully submitted her thesis for examination @lstmnews.bsky.social - looking forward to a positive outcome!
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.
Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.
Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.
October 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.
Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.
Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.
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Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'
Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'
They are "back where they belong" after being relocated from Scotland, conservationists say.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'
