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As
#COVID19
intensifies, so does the need to make sure you take the time to look after your
#wellbeing
.
We've been working with
@DrJulie_H
to bring you resources & advice on how to sustain wellbeing during COVID-19 and beyond💙
Please share far and wide👉
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With COVID cases on the rise, we believe it’s time for decisive action. 2 years on from the beginning of the pandemic, it’s still vital we protect the NHS from becoming overwhelmed.
Read our latest statement on the pressures on ICU here 👉
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We've been busy talking to media over the last few weeks to shout as loudly as possible to make sure the message on the severity of what
#ICUs
are experiencing right now is heard.
👉Our 🗞️ statement on the need to protect our community from breaking point
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Our latest statement on
#intensivecare
staffing, bed occupancy & capacity to support those reporting ICU data across the UK.
It also provides the media with a better understanding of what the data means to help make their reports on ICU beds clearer.
👉
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Failing to be vaccinated puts everyone’s lives at risk, so we’re calling for everyone able to be vaccinated to do so ASAP.
With around 30% of ICU beds in England already occupied by COVID patients, we’re concerned about the future.
Read our statement
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#COVID
-19 has required creating 2251 new ICU beds across the UK.
But the number of trained ICU staff hasn't risen to match.
Read our Recovery & Restitution statement about getting back to normal in a way that protects both patients & staff ▶️
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Unnecessary glove use has a big impact on planetary health & can be disruptive to hand hygiene.
With World
#Handhygieneday
this Friday we’ve created posters to help highlight when you don’t need to reach for a pair of gloves.
Download them at 🌏
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You can write 'not for ICU'
You can write 'admit ICU'
Or you can write the narrative. Ethical decisions deserve narrative.
#ICScareers
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Wonderful to see our Immediate Past President,
@Ganesh_ICM
, receiving his OBE🎖️ at today's Investiture at St James’ Palace for his contributions to
@NHSEngland
, intensive care & support to the whole critical care community incl leading the Society's COVID response across the 🇬🇧💙
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@BrotherWatson
Hi
@BrotherWatson
here is the link to the official thematic analysis summary from that call 👉
Pics below as well 👇
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Check out our new guidance on the Transfer of the Critically Ill Patients to the Outdoors!
👉
It outlines how to safely transfer patients to outside environments & should be used in conjunction with our guidance on the Transfer of the Critically Ill Adult.
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For staff that are new to critical care during the
#Covid_19
crisis, Clinical Psychologst
@DrMattBeadman
has prepared these helpful pages on how to recognise and help a patient with
#delirium
.
#pandemic
#MentalHealthAwareness
#intensivecare
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🚨 Our NEW guidance for conscious proning 🚨
Authors:
@Bemplex
@janedean1975
@LeDyslexicMedic
and davidwhitmore
Download the guidance here ▶️
More ICS mulit professional team guidance can be found here ▶️
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In just 1 year of NHS intensive care.....
#NHS70
#CareWhenItMatters
( infographic
@WhistlingDixie4
)
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We have updated our guidance for the use of vasopressor agents by peripheral intravenous infusion in adult critical care patients.
This version has an update to the concentration of the adrenaline monograph following user feedback.
Find Version 1.1 👉
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We've launched an urgent appeal to provide the much needed wellbeing and psychological support to intensive care workers as they fight everyday against
#COVID19
while looking after the sickest of patients. 💙
To donate:
more info:
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We are excited to launch new guidance for Prone Positioning in Adult Critical Care.
This guidance, developed along side
@FICMNews
will improve patient safety and reduced complications for this key intervention.
Read more ▶️
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Today we remember Jack's parents.
We also believe the right decision has been made &
#BawaGarba
should never have carried the blame for multiple systems errors. We welcome her back & hope that together we will continue to learn how to address the complexities of clinical error.
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#COVID19
open access resources
📢Please add any useful links by replying below and help us create a running repository to share widely
@ICS_updates
@PHE_uk
@WHO
@FICMNews
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Our thoughts & those of all in UK critical care are with NZ colleagues at
#Christchurch
and nearby ICUs, today and in the days to follow.
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During the pandemic we have needed an extra 2251 ICU beds, taking the total number to 6099. This is the same as building and extra 141 intensive care units with 16 beds each.
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We are so humbled and grateful for the amazing support from
@florencemachine
who is releasing her new song 'Light of Love' in aid of the Intensive Care society.
We cannot thank you enough💙
Light of Love. On streaming platforms everywhere at midnight.
In support of the Intensive Care Society.
Artwork by Lillie Eiger
@ICS_updates
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#COVID19
has been one of the toughest challenges
#intensivecare
has ever faced. Over the last few months we have worked hard to support you & showcase our amazing community to the public
We thought we would show you a few of the things we have been up to👉
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We wanted to take a second to stop & thank you for all the work you are doing.
You're all
#CriticalCareHeroes
and we're proud to stand alongside you to support you.
Find time to care for yourselves, and each other as you so tirelessly do for your patients.
Stay safe💙
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⭐
#ICSAwards2020
| The Research Award ⭐
Recognising a research team whose work has had a major impact on
#criticalcare
service provision
🏆 The winner is
@EveCorner
from
@Bruneluni
Congratulations!
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Wishing our Patron, HRH Princess Anne, a very happy birthday today. We are extremely grateful for both your continued support of the work we do and passion for the wider intensive care community.
@RoyalFamily
|
#PrincessRoyal
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Our latest position statement on Intensive Care Staffing Standards & the NHS Workforce Crisis ⤵️ .
We stand firm on the need for GPICS staffing standards to be adhered to at all times. Units should not have to struggle with inadequate staffing levels.
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⭐
#ICSAwards2020
| The Patient-Centred Care Award ⭐
Recognising an individual/team whose project has demonstrated a
#patientcentred
approach to improving care outcomes.
🏆 The winner is
@TantamKate
from University Hospital Plymouth
Congratulations!
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Today we’re thrilled to launch our Gloves Off in Critical Care Implementation Guide!
Following the response to our poster campaign in May, we wanted to provide our community with a tool for embedding the change in their own units.
You can find it at
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In 1966 the first UK ICU was established at
@GSTTnhs
in London.
55 years later more than 30,000 nurses, doctors, physios, dieticians, psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, and so many more work in intensive care across the country.
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Our latest statement calling for vigilance as England prepares to remove restrictions on Monday 19 July, with pressures on intensive care increasing daily.
Read the full statement here: 👇
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The Society and
@FICMNews
are excited to launch the second edition of the Guidelines For The Provision Of Intensive Care Services (GPICS)!!!!
Check out the full guidelines here ▶️
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To accompany our recently published guidance for conscious proning () we have prepared an information sheet with instructions and images to help patients better understand how to position themselves.
Download patient info sheet ▶️
🚨 Our NEW guidance for conscious proning 🚨
Authors:
@Bemplex
@janedean1975
@LeDyslexicMedic
and davidwhitmore
Download the guidance here ▶️
More ICS mulit professional team guidance can be found here ▶️
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See our President
@stephen_t_webb
response to the Spending Review announced by the Chancellor
@RishiSunak
.
"Whilst we welcome the investment in the NHS, we must be clear, without addressing the workforce crisis we are at risk of..."
Full statement👉
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"Without enough specialist staff, critical care beds are useless"
Great article by ICS Council member
@charlot_summers
in today's
@guardian
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“All that care and belief and love, keeping me in the world”.
@MichaelRosenYes
’s words perfectly describe the intensive care community. They care for the sickest of us, and as has been shown tonight, now we need to care for them.
#ICSDocumentary
#ICareforU
#thestoryofus
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Interested in the future of
#intensivecare
? So are we.
We are proud to launch Intensive Care 2020 and Beyond: Co-developing the Future. Led by
@charlot_summers
it looks to the future of ICU & the fundamental questions at the heart of our specialty.
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💙A big congratulations to ALL the unsung heroes recognised in the
#QueensBirthdayHonours
.
A very special moment for
#MDT
in
#intensive
care with
@Ganesh_ICM
@AlisonPittard
@TantamKate
@ellaterblanche
@annemarieraffer
on the list of Honours! We're so proud to work with you 💙
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👉 The latest summary report from our COVID-19 knowledge sharing session on thromboprophylaxis and anticoagulation of ICU patients can be found ▶️
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Are you an AHP seeking an opportunity to shape and deliver a national collaborative project?
We have partnered with
@NHSElect
@NHS_HealthEdEng
and
@NHSEngland
to produce a new critical care AHP capability framework.
We have 5 lead roles available
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NEW GUIDANCE! We are excited to release new ICS and
@FICMNews
guidance on the Transfer of the Critically Ill Adult. 🚑
Read the new guidance here ➡️
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Our latest guidance for Levels of Adult Critical Care to help provide a simplified approach to the way
#intensivecare
categorises levels of care 👉
Led by
@D1975P
with reps from
@FICMNews
@UKCCNA
@theRCN
@BACCNUK
@CC_3N
@CCC_Outreach
@TheACPRC
@UKCPA
💙
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With
@PHE_uk
anticipation of an unseasonal surge in Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infections in children this Autumn, we've been working with
@PICSociety
to release a joint statement providing preliminary guidance in the event of an RSV surge.
Read▶️
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Online first from the Journal of Intensive Care Society
#journalics
:
Cannulation of the subclavian vein using real time ultrasound guidance
#POCUS
#ultrasound
#foamed
#FOAMcc
(note that this is within our
#FUSIC
syllabus)
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👉Here is the latest summary from our international knowledge sharing virtual meeting with🇬🇧🇨🇳🇮🇹🇩🇪🇪🇸🇫🇷🇺🇸🇩🇰🇶🇦. Full summary▶️
We're hosting a free webinar today, 4-5pm with the above countries to share this learning with you.
Book👉
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A landmark high-quality pragamatic RCT of adrenaline v placebo in OHCA
#paramedic2
Congratulations to Gavin Perkins (research director for ICS) & to all of the investigators and teams involved
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🚨 Launch of our
#WeAreCritical
campaign🚨
We are launching a new fundraising campaign to help us do more for the critical care community through
#COVID19
and beyond.
Will you help us to support our
#CriticalCareHeroes
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It's
#ICURehabDay23
!!
We're delighted to join
@ICUsteps
to celebrate all of the incredible rehab work you do to support your patients recover after critical illness.
Help us raise the profile of ICU rehab and post pictures of your team using
#ICURehabDay23
.
#RehabLegend
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👏A huge congratulations to Prof
@rmoonesinghe
and
@sarahwallaceslt
on their well deserved OBEs and Prof
@iamyourgasman
and
@EveCorner
on their equally as deserving MBEs, as well as all of our other colleagues recognised in the
#NewYearsHonours
list.
#TeamICU
💙
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We are deeply concerned following
@NHSEngland
's announcement of cuts to mental health support for NHS staff. These service are already not robust enough, and not are an opportunity for cost saving.
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We’ve recently released our guidance for the use of vasopressor agents by peripheral intravenous infusion in adult critical care patients.
You can read it below 👇
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Don’t miss 2020: The Story of Us at 9pm tomorrow night on
@ITV
, featuring our Council members
@shond3
&
@hugh_montgomery
.
We’ll be tweeting throughout the broadcast, and we’d love to hear what you think of it! Join us using
#ICSDocumentary
from 9pm tomorrow.
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In our lifetimes, 1 in 6 of us will need the lifesaving care of an intensive care unit.
ICU staff care for the sickest of us. Now we need your help to care for them.
Donate today to our urgent appeal 👉
#ICareforU
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Last year we teamed up with
@docsville
@CritcareLTHTR
@WhitHealth
and Oscar winning director Kevin Macdonald to make feature length documentary 2020: The Story of Us.
This Tuesday night at 9pm you can watch it on
@ITV
.
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Did you know the first ICU was set up in 1953 to care for polio patients? It was established in Denmark by Bjorn Ibsen & medical students manually pumped oxygen into patients’ lungs.
We’ve come a long way since – what does work in ICU look like for you this
#IntensiveCareWeek21
?
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Today we’re excited to launch The Physiotherapy Pillar, a supplementary resource to AHP Critical Care Professional Development Framework (CCPDF). It celebrates the professional flexibility of physios & the innovation & creativity of the workforce.
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🥳Today is our 50th birthday! 🥳
Today marks 50 years of the Intensive Care Society.
👉
#ICS50
A message from our CEO and President💙
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1/3 👉 Check out our latest Recovery and Restitution of Critical Care Services during the COVID-19 pandemic policy statement here ▶️
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Yesterday, for the fourth day in a row the UK the UK recorded more then 40,000 cases of COVID.
We must take notice of the rising number of cases and hospital admissions and act now to reduce transmission.
Read our statement 👉
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Alice Roberts
@theAliceRoberts
will be a key note speaker at the ICS State of the Art Meeting 2019
SAVE THE DATE: 9-11th December, ICC, Birmingham (UK)
#ICSSOA2019
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VOTES ARE IN!
We are delighted to welcome
@iceman_ex
@MarliesOsterman
and
@ClareMWindsor
as our new Consultant Intensivist Council members taking up post on Monday 5 December 2023.
A huge thank you to all that stood in this year's elections and to our members for voting.
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We are proud to bring you the 1st release: Responding to
#COVID__19
: A framework for assessing early
#rehabilitation
needs following treatment in
#intensivecare
.
Download the framework👉
@BSRehabMed
@UCLPartners
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📣We are launching our new webinar education programme starting with👉FUSIC Lung Ultrasound in the Age of
#COVID
ー19
📅 16 April, 2020
⏱️ 7pm
📚Covering the use of Lung ultrasound in critical ill COVID-19 patients
▶️book
@Wilkinsonjonny
@avkwong
@bhca
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Wishing everyone rotating to ICUs up and down the county the very best of luck. Intensive Care is a wonderful speciality. Be prepared to learn, share knowledge, enjoy and be part of a very special team
#teamicm
👊
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👉 Our Intensive care as a positive place to work: Workforce wellbeing best practice framework.
This doc helps to provide a best practice framework to guide all levels of the intensive care team on ways to provide the best possible employee experience.
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We're launching a new programme of work led by
@charlot_summers
to capture the lessons learnt over the decades and set out a vision for what critical care should look like over the next 20 years.
Help shape the future by answering 5 simple questions ▶️
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1/3 Together with
@CC_3N
&
@NOrF_CCO_RRS
we are delighted to publish the Critical Care Outreach Practitioner (CCOP) Framework.
It will facilitate the development and career progression of post-registration HCPs working in critical care outreach.
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#COVID19
has highlighted more than ever the importance of
#research
.
Our Directors of Research have played vital roles in advancing
#ICM
and we’re proud to announce
@BronwenConnolly
@msh_manu
& Dr Marlies Ostermann are joining their ranks.
📰
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Our paper on the Post-ICU presentation screen (PICUPS) tool and rehabilitation prescription is out. The ICS Rehab Collab work led by
@Zudin_P
developed a tool to systematically identify the rehab needs of COVID-19 and non COVID-19 patients.
Full paper ▶️
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Congratulations to the amazing Dr Chris Mason who completed the London marathon today in full medic uniform. Chris has also raised hundreds of pounds for the Intensive Care Foundation!
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Everyone has a
#RightToRehab
, but rehabilitation isn't available everywhere in the UK.
Today we're proud to support our partners in the Community Rehabilitation Alliance in meeting MPs to call for an end to the postcode lottery.
You can show support at
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UPDATED | Clinical guide for the management of
#criticalcare
for adults with
#COVID19
during the Coronavirus pandemic | 28 October 2020 V4
➡️
Guidance, info & resources to manage
#COVID19
created/shared by
@ICS_updates
@RCoANews
@FICMNews
@Assoc_Anaes
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We're deeply disappointed that the amendment to the Health and Care Bill to strengthen workforce planning has been voted down by the House of Commons.
Read our full statement▶️
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“The truth is that for ICU staff, it is not over.”
Our Council member
@hugh_montgomery
's moving account of his year running an intensive care unit highlights why it’s so important we care for these who care for the sickest of us.
#ICareforU
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Today we’re proud to launch our Unexpected Death of a Colleague First Aid Kit, developed by
@DrJulie_H
in collaboration with
@Assoc_Anaes
&
@FICMNews
. It’s been designed to support staff of all professions in the event of an unexpected death in the team.
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We’ve officially named our first award winner of the evening! All our nominees this year are deserving of being honoured, but congratulations to the winners of our Impact Award, the team at
@GSTTnhs
, and well done for all the hard work.
#ICSAwards21
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We’re delighted to announce the release of our latest guidance, developed in collaboration with
@acutemedicine
.
The guidance will help support the delivery and implementation of enhanced care units.
You can read the full guidance at
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We understand that
#rehab
is a cornerstone of
#criticalcare
, discharge is often just the start of another journey and follow-up matters.
#GPICs
has standards to support this ...
#rehab
#rehablegend
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We had a great afternoon talking to MPs about the importance of education, training and CPD plus careers and staff retention in ICU.
A massive thanks to
@sanmather
@danni_dietitian
@EileenKellySLT
@frantait85
@TantamKate
@stevemathieu75
@Zudin_P
Rebekah Haylett and Claire rock.
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Join
@aroradrn
@Zudin_P
@Kevin_Fong
@rupert_pearse
@credland_nicki
&
@AHPLeader
at 7pm Thursday for our recovery & restitution of critical care webinar.
✨✨
And once you're registered why not check out our policy statement too 👉
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Today is
#WorldMentalHealthDay
#CriticalCare
can be one of the toughest places to work in
#healthcare
and this can take its toll on even the strongest of people. When things get hard its ok to ask for help!
#ItsOkNotToBeOk
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Our new guidance led by
@clark_samr
and an expert writing group has been published for the transfer of critically ill adults to an outdoor space during end of life care 👉
@mariecurieuk
|
@APMPostTweets
|
@UKCCNA
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Many congratulations to Professor Julian Bion, founding Dean of
@FICMNews
and honorary member of
@ICS_updates
(2009) on his award of OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
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New Guidelines - Eye Care in the Intensive Care Unit - aims to provide advice and information for clinical staff who are involved in
eye care in the ICU. You can download them here and find them on the ICS Guidelines & Standards page.
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Caring for COVID-19 patients every day has taken a huge toll on the ICU community & wider colleagues.
With
@DrJulie_H
we’re running psychoeducation courses to help ICU professionals recognise & manage stress.
Find out more 👉
#wellbeingwednesday
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#COVID
-19 Updates & Links
1. PPE videos (H/T
@PHE_uk
&
@OutbreakJake
)
Donning PPE:
Doffing PPE:
2. UK Gov response & links
3.
@ESICM
webinar
4.
@emcrit
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📢Our latest statement: Pulse oximetry & ethnicity – the time to act is now!
A pulse oximeter is an essential part of ICU equipment, however, further work is needed to improve this device to help properly monitor the spectrum of patients we care for.
👉
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Our President
@Ganesh_ICM
& Prof Ruth Endacott in
@NursingTimes
article 'Warning against making pandemic ICU nurse ratios permanent'
“In order to support trusts to take a sensible approach the ICS is putting together a nurse-led group to provide guidance”
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We are very excited to release version 2 of the Guidelines for the Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS) document for public consultation. We invite you to give us your feedback, full instructions can be found here
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Stephen Hales inserted the first central vein catheter in 1733 using a glass tube. He wasn’t a doctor, he was a clergyman & his patient was a horse, not a human. It was nearly 200 years later in 1929 that the first CVC device was used clinically in humans.
#IntensiveCareWeek21
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Critical: Inside Intensive Care from
@BBCWales
now available on iplayer
#NHS70
- great to see our multi professional specialty in action. Well done
@AneurinBevanUHB
& to everyone involved
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In
#crticalcare
our patients depend on the multidisciplinary expertise within the ward round ...
#GPICS
sets out clear recommendation; is this is a reality where you work? Can we do better?
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