Hi all! Maybe this has been discussed or I didn't discover anything new. Even though I got succesful at breathing through my nose at night (I am taking care of allergies, wash sinuses, and stick my tongue in place against my alveolum), I often drop my jaw just a little in my sleep, which sends air to the front of my mouth so I end up, puffing air out, or mouth breathing or leaking. Sometimes it wakes me up.

I'm a side sleeper and single, so I instinctively pick up my extra high density pillow and hug it, and push one end against my jaw, just a little bit, it doesn't bother me (it actually feels nice) and keeps it closed and I don't have to wear anything else on my face. It does work! It probably requires a high density pillow though. Give it a try if you haven't so far!

Good luck!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

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Poorly aerated alveoli imply alveolar hypoventilation. In this case, tho, we have literally inflammatory fluid built up at the alveoli which would count as the thickening of the AC interface. I don't understand how D is the answer. Any input is appreciated.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Last week I had “one of those days” so after 3-4 balloons I decided to try and get a little weird. After what I thought would be a small draw I ended up blasting off. I’m not finding any literature online pertaining to an interaction between DMT and nitrous but I have a feeling there is. Can anyone testify to this? Am I crazy?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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Welcome!

This is a series I am going to be working on where I endeavour to cover various topics in physiology intermixed with clinical pearls to impart some knowledge that doctors of most specialties and grades will hopefully find useful when looking after acutely unwell patients. Join me as we dredge through the depths of anaesthetic exam revision to answer important questions like "why do CT ask for a pink cannula", "why frusemide is okay to give in AKI", "why is hypoxic drive a bunch of horse manure" and many more. Pick up some of this material and you'll be well on your way to becoming a pernickety anaesthetist, whether you like it or not!

Questions, comments, feedback, and suggestions are both encouraged and welcome.

Previous installments:

• IV access, resuscitation, fluids, and the cardiovascular system

• The physiology of ageing and illness, and its impact on critical care decision making

Respiratory failure, oxygen therapy, and gas exchange

Oxygen therapy is one of the first and most frequent drugs administered to acutely unwell patients, often without prescription (much to the annoyance of the audit department). Despite this, how much we do really know about when and how to give this little molecule? I'll talk you through some fundamentals of respiratory physiology to explain and debunk some common misconceptions. I apologise in advance for the length here, this is a big topic!

Oxygen transport

So, we start at the beginning, how does oxygen even get into our blood? (This is what we call the oxygen cascade). I'm sure we can all conjure up some basic anatomy, but did you know, for example, that PO₂ (21 kPa in room air) drops (to 20) just by the humidification of air? There's also significant mixing with CO₂ in the dead spaces that drops it even further (to 15). We then come to the first important bit of anaesthetic trivia, the alveolar gas equation (bear with me here):

PAO₂ = [FiO₂ x (Patm - PH₂O)] - (PaCO₂ / RQ)

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved