COVID ECMO referrals have rocketed the last few days.
All unvacc. We haven’t had vaccinated ECMO patient ever. If pregnant & unvaccinated, please please discuss COVID vacc with your Obs/midwife urgently. Vaccination is the only way out of this. NHS England Royal College of Midwives 💙 RoyalCollegeObsGyn

Our Royal Brompton Critical Care held virtual patient days for critical care patients & their family to ‘revisit’ the hospital & speak to staff who cared for them.
One patient said: 'I came away feeling very fortunate having been cared for by such a professional caring team'
bit.ly/AICUpatientday

Our penultimate talk of the day from Sachin Mehta 💙🦀 who we are pleased to welcome from Royal Brompton Critical Care

‘Anaesthesia for cardiac transplantation’

#FOAMed #cardiac #anaesthesia

Surge 2 data curation ongoing. Thanks Intensive Care Medicine for summarising some of our findings from surge 1. Intensive Care Society 💙 @esicm American Thoracic Society (ATS) SCCM

Excited to have published this with Christophe Vandenbriele and Royal Brompton Critical Care team

Septic biventricular failure ➡️ VA ECMO
LV recovery with cont. resp failure ⏩ Harlequin syndrome❗️
V-AV ECMO➡️ RV unable to cope❗️
VV-A ECMO ➡️ RV unloaded, harlequin resolves ✅

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Latest Intensive Care Medicine visual abstract focused on study by THE Dr Patel Shlomi Haar Rhodri Handslip FaisalLab et al reporting data on #COVID19 patients on mechanical ventilation in UK, collected in amazing alluvial plot!
Results open access #FOAMcc #COVIDFOAM rdcu.be/clN7b

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#C19marathon with ESICM is 4 days away. The programme looks excellent! We'll be covering all the major topics of ICU Best Practice in #COVID19 - join us this Saturday, absolutely free --> esicm.org/get-ready-for-… (CME CPD Accredited)

LIVES #C19Marathon ESICM! ICU #COVID19 best practices on May 22 bit.ly/2RXeCES
Join Intensive Care Medicine journal club & send questions Adrian Wong & I will address to authors! Articles ⬇️
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w Maurizio Cecconi Elie Azoulay Giuseppe Citerio Marcin Osuchowski

Want to say a massive thank you to Royal Brompton Critical Care for all the follow up care you’ve given me. They’ve really gone over and above to make sure I’m not just physically well but psychologically have the right things in place in case I develop PTSD or any other fallout

Each country needs a rolling & honest evaluation of #icu service delivery across the pandemic to assess whether best #ards #covid19 evidence was implemented? We present UK 1st surge data. UK increased #icu capacity for 2nd surge. Data curation ongoing COVID ICU Intensive Care Society 💙

Time to invest in intensive care medicine: if not now in #COVID19 #pandemic , when?
⬆️critical care need vs scarce critical resources
⬇️age of pts admitted progressively younger: why?
⬆️non-invasive resp support use but #ARDS rate still high = high IMV need
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Editorial referred to
🇧🇷 Evolving mortality of >13K critically ill #COVID19 adults over 8 months rdcu.be/ckGpM
🇬🇧 Data on COVID-19 adults on invasive MV rdcu.be/ckGpX
Read all & prepare questions: both will be discussed on May 22 ESICM 2nd #LIVES #C19Marathon

Our Intensive Care Medicine (rdcu.be/ckGpX) paper will be discussed @esicm #c19marathon . Huge effort by Analog Aldo Shlomi Haar Rhodri Handslip David Antcliffe Matthieu Komorowski Anthony Gordon Ingeborg Welters Kate T Luigi Camporota John Prowle Zudin Intensive Care Society 💙 and others across the #NHS

#ATS2021 is open! Watch all on-demand content starting now! Don't miss the Opening Ceremony with Dr. Fauci Saturday at 7pm ET! Registration is still open: conference.thoracic.org/attendees/inde…

And alongside Lieuwe Bos - Acute Pulmonary Medicine summarising #ARDS clinical year in review. Where do you start with that? 🤔 Thanks for including our observational paper on #covid19 #angiopathy in ATS Blue Journal. Seems an age ago now.

Proud to
contribute to ATS Conference 2021 - Clinical Year in Review on #ecmo . These fantastic studies contextualised for me the application of #ecmo in 2020/21. ⁦American Thoracic Society (ATS)⁩ #ats2021 ⁦⁦⁦ELSO⁩ EuroELSO⁩ #covid19 conference.thoracic.org/program/public…

Great paper THE Dr Patel congratulations 👏👏 👏Royal Brompton Critical Care

#COVID19 in adults on invasive MV, UK data:
➡️overall mortality 43.3% ⬆️ if refractory hypoxaemia & non-response to proning
Progressive resp failure? major association w mortality yet evidence based #ARDS interventions ie PP often not/too late implemented bit.ly/3uEzZJR

Surgery and Cancer Kate T David Antcliffe Anthony Gordon Matthieu Komorowski Analog Aldo Shlomi Haar Rhodri Handslip