ICUsteps Edinburgh
@icustepsedinburgh.bsky.social
ICUsteps Edinburgh is a group for ex-ICU patients, their families and friends, run by former ICU patients, relatives and health professionals. The purpose is to provide on-going support after discharge for those who have encountered critical illness.
Good ICUsteps Edinburgh support meeting on 4 November. Topics: Our journey to ICU and how we are now; delirium, nightmares and hallucinations; ICU diaries, reviews and piecing together the timeline; what we're looking forward to, & the Annual General Meeting. Christmas dinner will be on 9 December.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Good ICUsteps Edinburgh support meeting on 4 November. Topics: Our journey to ICU and how we are now; delirium, nightmares and hallucinations; ICU diaries, reviews and piecing together the timeline; what we're looking forward to, & the Annual General Meeting. Christmas dinner will be on 9 December.
Walking Scotland
This week, skip the car for one short trip and walk or wheel instead. Jump in a puddle and maybe spot a rainbow or two. Don't let the rain stop you.
#PuddlePower
This week, skip the car for one short trip and walk or wheel instead. Jump in a puddle and maybe spot a rainbow or two. Don't let the rain stop you.
#PuddlePower
November 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Walking Scotland
This week, skip the car for one short trip and walk or wheel instead. Jump in a puddle and maybe spot a rainbow or two. Don't let the rain stop you.
#PuddlePower
This week, skip the car for one short trip and walk or wheel instead. Jump in a puddle and maybe spot a rainbow or two. Don't let the rain stop you.
#PuddlePower
Tom Duffin Photography
This Autumn might be the best one I've seen in Edinburgh if the fine weather keeps up
This Autumn might be the best one I've seen in Edinburgh if the fine weather keeps up
November 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Tom Duffin Photography
This Autumn might be the best one I've seen in Edinburgh if the fine weather keeps up
This Autumn might be the best one I've seen in Edinburgh if the fine weather keeps up
#ICUThoughtForToday: You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#ICUThoughtForToday: You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West
#ICUThoughtForToday: It is health that is real wealth. Not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
#ICUThoughtForToday: It is health that is real wealth. Not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi
Good ICUsteps Edinburgh support meeting on 7 October. Topics: Our journey to ICU and how we are now; delirium; sleeplessness; tinnitus; therapy dogs; podcasts; fresh air; escapism and what we're looking forward to.
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Good ICUsteps Edinburgh support meeting on 7 October. Topics: Our journey to ICU and how we are now; delirium; sleeplessness; tinnitus; therapy dogs; podcasts; fresh air; escapism and what we're looking forward to.
NHS Lothian @NHS_Lothian
Meet the finalists for our Celebrating Success Best Example of Quality, Innovation, and Productivity Award! 🏆✨
As well as providing excellent care, these teams and individuals lead the way in developing new ways of working.
Meet the finalists for our Celebrating Success Best Example of Quality, Innovation, and Productivity Award! 🏆✨
As well as providing excellent care, these teams and individuals lead the way in developing new ways of working.
October 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NHS Lothian @NHS_Lothian
Meet the finalists for our Celebrating Success Best Example of Quality, Innovation, and Productivity Award! 🏆✨
As well as providing excellent care, these teams and individuals lead the way in developing new ways of working.
Meet the finalists for our Celebrating Success Best Example of Quality, Innovation, and Productivity Award! 🏆✨
As well as providing excellent care, these teams and individuals lead the way in developing new ways of working.
Kate Tantam (She/her) @TantamKate
“This group has allowed us all to talk about our rehab journeys and encourage and push each other to achieve”
#RehabMatters and everyone has a #RightToRehab
“This group has allowed us all to talk about our rehab journeys and encourage and push each other to achieve”
#RehabMatters and everyone has a #RightToRehab
October 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Kate Tantam (She/her) @TantamKate
“This group has allowed us all to talk about our rehab journeys and encourage and push each other to achieve”
#RehabMatters and everyone has a #RightToRehab
“This group has allowed us all to talk about our rehab journeys and encourage and push each other to achieve”
#RehabMatters and everyone has a #RightToRehab
October 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Scot Gov Health
MyCare, Scotland’s new health and social care online app, will be made available to everyone across Scotland from April 2026.
Find out more ➡️http://gov.scot/news/scotlands-new-health-and-social-care-app/
MyCare, Scotland’s new health and social care online app, will be made available to everyone across Scotland from April 2026.
Find out more ➡️http://gov.scot/news/scotlands-new-health-and-social-care-app/
October 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Scot Gov Health
MyCare, Scotland’s new health and social care online app, will be made available to everyone across Scotland from April 2026.
Find out more ➡️http://gov.scot/news/scotlands-new-health-and-social-care-app/
MyCare, Scotland’s new health and social care online app, will be made available to everyone across Scotland from April 2026.
Find out more ➡️http://gov.scot/news/scotlands-new-health-and-social-care-app/
#MyWeeICUPhotoExhibition #WOMENSART @womensart1
“I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.” - Bessie Smith,
singer, aka Empress of the Blues #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
“I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.” - Bessie Smith,
singer, aka Empress of the Blues #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
October 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#MyWeeICUPhotoExhibition #WOMENSART @womensart1
“I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.” - Bessie Smith,
singer, aka Empress of the Blues #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
“I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.” - Bessie Smith,
singer, aka Empress of the Blues #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
Neil Gray MSP @neilcgray
It’s Organ Donation Awareness Week! While Scotland operates an “opt-out” system for organ and tissue donation, it is still vital that individuals make their wishes clear to avoid uncertainty at a difficult time.
Please register your decision organdonation.scot #LeaveNoDoubt
It’s Organ Donation Awareness Week! While Scotland operates an “opt-out” system for organ and tissue donation, it is still vital that individuals make their wishes clear to avoid uncertainty at a difficult time.
Please register your decision organdonation.scot #LeaveNoDoubt
October 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Neil Gray MSP @neilcgray
It’s Organ Donation Awareness Week! While Scotland operates an “opt-out” system for organ and tissue donation, it is still vital that individuals make their wishes clear to avoid uncertainty at a difficult time.
Please register your decision organdonation.scot #LeaveNoDoubt
It’s Organ Donation Awareness Week! While Scotland operates an “opt-out” system for organ and tissue donation, it is still vital that individuals make their wishes clear to avoid uncertainty at a difficult time.
Please register your decision organdonation.scot #LeaveNoDoubt
#MyWeeICUArtGallery: Kristen Visbal Fearless Girl 2017
October 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#MyWeeICUArtGallery: Kristen Visbal Fearless Girl 2017
#MyICUMusic: Nursing in Critical Care Journal
#Delirium remains one of the most challenging complications in #CriticalCareNursing. Could music hold the key?
This study shows that music interventions significantly reduce delirium risk in ICU patients. #MusicTherapy
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#Delirium remains one of the most challenging complications in #CriticalCareNursing. Could music hold the key?
This study shows that music interventions significantly reduce delirium risk in ICU patients. #MusicTherapy
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
October 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#MyICUMusic: Nursing in Critical Care Journal
#Delirium remains one of the most challenging complications in #CriticalCareNursing. Could music hold the key?
This study shows that music interventions significantly reduce delirium risk in ICU patients. #MusicTherapy
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#Delirium remains one of the most challenging complications in #CriticalCareNursing. Could music hold the key?
This study shows that music interventions significantly reduce delirium risk in ICU patients. #MusicTherapy
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#MyWeeICUArtGallery #WOMENSART
Artists Lauren Dicioccio’s hand stitched portrait of Elizabeth Moss as Offred from the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale', a work containing the famous quote “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"
Don't let the bastards grind you down
Artists Lauren Dicioccio’s hand stitched portrait of Elizabeth Moss as Offred from the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale', a work containing the famous quote “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"
Don't let the bastards grind you down
October 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#MyWeeICUArtGallery #WOMENSART
Artists Lauren Dicioccio’s hand stitched portrait of Elizabeth Moss as Offred from the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale', a work containing the famous quote “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"
Don't let the bastards grind you down
Artists Lauren Dicioccio’s hand stitched portrait of Elizabeth Moss as Offred from the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale', a work containing the famous quote “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"
Don't let the bastards grind you down
Good ICUsteps Edinburgh support meeting on 2 Sept. Topics: Our journey to ICU and how we are now; difficulty in coming to terms with how ill we really were; delirium and piecing the ICU story timeline together; difficulties physical and mental; and what we're looking forward to.
September 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Good ICUsteps Edinburgh support meeting on 2 Sept. Topics: Our journey to ICU and how we are now; difficulty in coming to terms with how ill we really were; delirium and piecing the ICU story timeline together; difficulties physical and mental; and what we're looking forward to.
Alasdair MacLullich @A_MacLullich
“The nurse who explained every procedure was the only ‘good guy’ in my #delirium story.”
-- Delirium survivor
Be that nurse. Be that doctor. Be that therapist.
“The nurse who explained every procedure was the only ‘good guy’ in my #delirium story.”
-- Delirium survivor
Be that nurse. Be that doctor. Be that therapist.
September 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Alasdair MacLullich @A_MacLullich
“The nurse who explained every procedure was the only ‘good guy’ in my #delirium story.”
-- Delirium survivor
Be that nurse. Be that doctor. Be that therapist.
“The nurse who explained every procedure was the only ‘good guy’ in my #delirium story.”
-- Delirium survivor
Be that nurse. Be that doctor. Be that therapist.
paul henderson @paulhendohibs32
Today I’ve been mostly at the Edinburgh book festival promoting my book “They’re trying to kill me” it was right beside a book about a couple of well known singers in the Beatles.
Today I’ve been mostly at the Edinburgh book festival promoting my book “They’re trying to kill me” it was right beside a book about a couple of well known singers in the Beatles.
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
paul henderson @paulhendohibs32
Today I’ve been mostly at the Edinburgh book festival promoting my book “They’re trying to kill me” it was right beside a book about a couple of well known singers in the Beatles.
Today I’ve been mostly at the Edinburgh book festival promoting my book “They’re trying to kill me” it was right beside a book about a couple of well known singers in the Beatles.
#ICUThoughtForToday: Become an activist
September 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#ICUThoughtForToday: Become an activist
Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust @greenspacetrust
ELGT have recently delivered a new active travel path at Huntershall Park. Helping to link communities to the wider network and making local greenspaces more accessible.
@transcotland
ELGT have recently delivered a new active travel path at Huntershall Park. Helping to link communities to the wider network and making local greenspaces more accessible.
@transcotland
September 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust @greenspacetrust
ELGT have recently delivered a new active travel path at Huntershall Park. Helping to link communities to the wider network and making local greenspaces more accessible.
@transcotland
ELGT have recently delivered a new active travel path at Huntershall Park. Helping to link communities to the wider network and making local greenspaces more accessible.
@transcotland
Alasdair MacLullich @A_MacLullich
The 4AT delirium assessment tool is already established as a well-validated & clinically effective method of delirium detection in practice.
Links to editorial & other sources below
#delirium #dementia #medtwitter
The 4AT delirium assessment tool is already established as a well-validated & clinically effective method of delirium detection in practice.
Links to editorial & other sources below
#delirium #dementia #medtwitter
September 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Alasdair MacLullich @A_MacLullich
The 4AT delirium assessment tool is already established as a well-validated & clinically effective method of delirium detection in practice.
Links to editorial & other sources below
#delirium #dementia #medtwitter
The 4AT delirium assessment tool is already established as a well-validated & clinically effective method of delirium detection in practice.
Links to editorial & other sources below
#delirium #dementia #medtwitter
Community Rehabilitation Research Network
The annual cost of brain injury to the UK economy is £43 billion, or 1.5% of GDP @UKABIF
Community rehab research is vital in addressing the care needs of people with brain injury in the most efficient and cost effective ways.
lnkd.in/e7v35sP3
The annual cost of brain injury to the UK economy is £43 billion, or 1.5% of GDP @UKABIF
Community rehab research is vital in addressing the care needs of people with brain injury in the most efficient and cost effective ways.
lnkd.in/e7v35sP3
September 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Community Rehabilitation Research Network
The annual cost of brain injury to the UK economy is £43 billion, or 1.5% of GDP @UKABIF
Community rehab research is vital in addressing the care needs of people with brain injury in the most efficient and cost effective ways.
lnkd.in/e7v35sP3
The annual cost of brain injury to the UK economy is £43 billion, or 1.5% of GDP @UKABIF
Community rehab research is vital in addressing the care needs of people with brain injury in the most efficient and cost effective ways.
lnkd.in/e7v35sP3
Scot Gov Health @scotgovhealth
New figures show the risk of dying from cancer for people living in Scotland is at the lowest on record.
Public Health Scotland stats show from 2013 to 2022 the risk of dying from cancer in Scotland decreased by 11.1%.
More➡️https://ow.ly/T5Bn50WI5qG
New figures show the risk of dying from cancer for people living in Scotland is at the lowest on record.
Public Health Scotland stats show from 2013 to 2022 the risk of dying from cancer in Scotland decreased by 11.1%.
More➡️https://ow.ly/T5Bn50WI5qG
September 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Scot Gov Health @scotgovhealth
New figures show the risk of dying from cancer for people living in Scotland is at the lowest on record.
Public Health Scotland stats show from 2013 to 2022 the risk of dying from cancer in Scotland decreased by 11.1%.
More➡️https://ow.ly/T5Bn50WI5qG
New figures show the risk of dying from cancer for people living in Scotland is at the lowest on record.
Public Health Scotland stats show from 2013 to 2022 the risk of dying from cancer in Scotland decreased by 11.1%.
More➡️https://ow.ly/T5Bn50WI5qG
VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane
Flowers from my garden to wish you all a happy Wednesday! #FlowerPhotography
Flowers from my garden to wish you all a happy Wednesday! #FlowerPhotography
September 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane
Flowers from my garden to wish you all a happy Wednesday! #FlowerPhotography
Flowers from my garden to wish you all a happy Wednesday! #FlowerPhotography