Worlds First Book to Explain Critical Illnes to Children
MediKidz in collaboration with the Intensive Care Society have published a peer reviewed book to explain critical illness to children whose parents might be in an ICU.
View ArticleAcute and emergency care: prescribing the remedy
Urgent and emergency care services face profound pressures that are most obviously experienced by patients and clinicians working in emergency departments and acute admission wards. This policy paper...
View ArticleFunding For Innovations to Improve Healthcare
The Healthcare Foundation has £1.5 million available for teams to test and develop innovative ideas and approaches to improve health care delivery in the UK.
View ArticleMHRA Medical Device Alert 027
MHRA; Medical Device Alert MDA/2014/027 - Ventstar disposable breathing systems. Part numbers 2M868441 and 2M86791. Specific batch numbers affected
View ArticleEdinburgh Critical Care Research Methods
Edinburgh Research Methods Course for Critical Care, Anaesthesia and Emergency Specialties Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 23-24 October 2014 Course fee: £200
View ArticleIntravenous fluid therapy in adults in hospital
NICE quality standards describe high-priority areas for quality improvement in a defined care or service area. Each standard consists of a prioritised set of specific, concise and measurable...
View ArticleImproving collaborative working between Coroners and Specialist Nurses for...
NHS blood and transplant are keen to audit the ways in which coroners and coroners officers are involved in donation requests.
View ArticleLiving Donor Kidney Transplantation 2020: A UK Strategy
Living Donor Kidney Transplantation 2020 A UK Strategy
View ArticleMHRA Medical Device Alert 2014 032
MHRA; Medical Device Alert MDA/2014/032 - Ventstar disposable breathing systems. Part numbers 2M868441 and 2M86791. Specific batch numbers affected
View ArticleSepsis: Professor Mark Bellamy on LBC Radio
Professor Mark Bellamy, President of the Society, stressed the dangers of sepsis, and the failure to recognise it and treat it swiftly, on a series of recent interviews on the BBC and independent...
View ArticleICF Appoints two new Deputy Directors of Research
Congratulations to Dr Nazir Lone and Dr Kenneth Baillie The primary role of the Deputy Director(s) will be to facilitate the research activities of the Society's members including multicentre clinical...
View ArticleValidation of new Proxima miniature in-line blood gas analyser
Method Comparison Study at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, confirms excellent agreement between Proxima and standard blood gas analysis.
View ArticleReduce the spread of infection on the ICU
The evidence is growing to support the use of single-use scopes within the ICU. So far, more than 59 articles have been published involving almost 1,000 patients regarding the spread of...
View ArticleHigh Dependency Care for Children
Considerable progress has been made in delivering intensive care for children since the 1997 report'Framework for the Future', including provision of high-quality acute stabilisation of the critically...
View ArticleEarly Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness and Injury checklist
METRIC-EPM (Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care, Emergency and Perioperative Medicine), based at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, has developed a software tool for...
View ArticleTrack and Trigger, digital advances explained
We've all watched the scene: a doctor or nurse lifts the clipboard from the end of the patient's bed and scans the latest readings for signs of improvement or deterioration.
View ArticleCommunication: Lost in Translation
Communication might be considered the greatest "care gap" in medicine. How often do patients fail to understand important information about their condition or that of a loved one? Can medical team...
View ArticleGlobal Sepsis Award
To further promote the fight against sepsis the World Sepsis Day movement and the Global Sepsis Alliance announce today the Global Sepsis Award to honour excellence in sepsis awareness and education...
View ArticleSurgical Outcome Risk Tool
A new Surgical Outcome Risk Tool (SORT) has been developed and internally validated by researchers from NCEPOD and the UCL/UCLH Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe). This is described in a new...
View ArticleWFSICCM Newsletter
The World Federation is the representative body for all scientific societies in intensive and critical care medicine. We have a key role in providing leadership to ensure we work together to improve...
View ArticleAcute kidney injury quality standard (QS76)
The Acute kidney injury quality standard (QS76) was published today. Please read on for further details.
View ArticleThe Intensive Care Foundation - Raising Awareness, Improving Care
A Manchester Business School case study on the Intensive Care Foundation and raising awareness.
View ArticleNotes from Council
The Society's Council met in early January. Stephen Brett chaired his first council meeting and welcomed two new members, Jagtar Pooni and Stephen Webb. The first part of the meeting was taken up with...
View ArticleRAPIDE Study: Trial coordinators, pharmacists, research nurses and doctors...
The University of Oxford is recruiting staff for its research teams in Sierra Leone. If you are interested and available from early March for pre-deployment training and from mid-March for deployment...
View ArticleProfessional Record Standards Body electronic discharge summary survey
You may remember that I emailed you recently about an e-medications survey. Many thanks for taking the time to complete/circulate the survey. We had an amazing 900 responses, with really helpful comments.
View ArticleLaerdal Foundation Grant for Cardiac Arrest Research on Trialect
We are contacting you as we have a postings on Trialect at www.Trialect.com soliciting applications for Laerdal Foundation Grant for Cardiac Arrest Research. The Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine...
View ArticleAcute Kidney Injury NICE Quality Standard
It is two months since the Acute Kidney Injury NICE quality standard was published and we are interested to know about the support and promotion that has been carried out in relation to the quality...
View ArticleUsing EIT in the Clinical Environment How Can it Help?
Dräger were the first company to make ventilation visible at the bedside with the PulmoVista 500 EIT device.
View ArticleWFSICCM Newsletter February 2015
12TH WORLD CONGRESS NEWS EARLY REGISTRATION FEES & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE The deadline for the submission of abstracts is MARCH 31st. Please encourage your members to submit their work.
View ArticleNotes from Council - March 2015
Ganesh Suntharalingam reported that preparations were well advanced and a provisional program mapped out. He has conducted extensive market research in addition to the feedback received from delegates...
View ArticleNICE: Guidance and support to help position catheters in veins
I'm getting in touch to let you know that in new NICE guidance, published this week, NICE has recommended a device to make it easier to position a catheter correctly, when inserted through a vein in...
View ArticleAntibiotic resistance: We can buy time but we must act in a focussed way says...
A Government report says the number of infections complicated by anti-microbial resistance is expected to increase markedly over the next 20 years. Prof. Mark Bellamy, immediate past president of the...
View ArticleNICE: Quality Standards Advisory Committee recruitment
NICE is currently recruiting for additional members to join their Quality Standards Advisory Committees (QSAC) to support delivery of the library of quality standards topics.
View ArticleMHRA Medical Device Alert 2015/009
MHRA MEDICAL DEVICE ALERT: MDA/2015/009 DEVICE: Defibrillation electrodes for children MANUFACTURER: Leonhard Lang
View ArticleANZICS: Global Rising Star Programme
On behalf of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) I am writing to you to make you aware of a venture that we are particularly excited about, the Intensive Care Global Rising...
View ArticleNCEPOD CAll for Study Proposals
NCEPOD annouces that the 2015 call for study proposals is now open, and are inviting organisations to submit original study proposal.
View ArticleNICE Committee member recruitment: Short-term interventions for regaining...
NICE are recruiting members for one of their guideline Committees. They are looking for both lay members (people using services, family members and carers, and members of the public and community or...
View ArticleNHSBT Patient Blood Management Newsletter
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Patient Blood Management newsletter produced by the NHSBT Patient Blood Management Team.
View ArticleNotes from Council - May 2015
Ganesh Suntharalingam reported that preparations were well advanced and a provisional program mapped out. He has conducted extensive market research in addition to the feedback received from delegates...
View ArticlePrevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections In Intensive...
Central lineassociated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) occurring in the intensive care unit are common, costly, potentially lethal, and largely preventable.1 Prevention practices have a strong evidence...
View ArticleIncoming President Message 2015
As incoming President of our Society, it is truly a pleasure to write to you so soon after our largest ever annual conference; over 1000 delegates attended and were treated to a varied and challenging...
View ArticleTrainee Committee response to junior doctor contract proposals
The trainee committee respond to the junior doctor contract proposals
View ArticlePersonal Reflection from the President of the Intensive Care Society
I note with interest the publications yesterday concerning the proposals for trainee contract.
View ArticleICS statement on the BMA Junior Doctors' ballot result
The Intensive Care Society has a duty to seek improvements in the care of seriously ill patients through advances in science and the sustainable development of intensive care medicine as a speciality...
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