Launched today! Pleased to share this new (free) resource written with Julie Highfield 💙 to help those working with PPI partners be more trauma informed. Pls RT, share and discuss! @https://www.imperial.ac.uk/clinical-trials-unit/ppi/trauma-informed-guidance/ Anthony Gordon Dhruv Parekh

Admit it, docs-who-aren't-geriatricians: when someone says 'OT', I bet you think 'equipment' 😳 OTs do so much more than that & are increasingly found in emergency & acute care settings (including prehospital). #LoveyourOT #NotJustAboutEquipment #PracticalProfessionals #FOAMed

Writing up a home visit on an elderly man and wanted to give a MASSIVE shout out to all the #OccupationalTherapists

After his stroke they have transformed his life, they got him to climb stairs, get in and out of the bath and got him cooking again
Amazing and underrated Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Brillant Band 7 Critical Care Occupational Therapy role available with us at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Trust Critical Care out to advert now. Please get in touch if your interested to myself or EllaOT and or retweet to share!!!

Pleased that the first results paper of the NIHR Research funded MSK-ICU study has been published in 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢
Looking forward to presenting the wider programme of research as part of the Intensive Care Society 💙 rising star session
Huge thanks to all involved!
doi.org/10.1111/anae.1…

Happy Easter 🐣
Critical Care Rehabilitation Guide 'Road to Recovery' now available to download from ICUsteps and Critical Care Support Network
icusteps.org/rehabilitation… Massive thanks to all the collaborators ❤️ #rehablegends

James Bruce Claire Rock Critical Care Occupational Therapist Kate Brooks Life Lines Penelope Firshman Liz Felton Helena Rampley

Exercise prescription recommendations in Frailty👇🏼

▶️Resistance (strength) training
▶️Aerobic (endurance) training
▶️Balance training

#ageing #frailty #exercise

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Postintensive care syndrome family: A comprehensive review

P Provide Leaflet
I ICU Diary
C Communication facilitators
S Support grief care
F Follow-up after discharge

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38476451/

Physiologic effects of #ECMO in severe #ARDS ? ⬆️ EBF resulting in higher SvO2 decreases PAP, CO, right heart workload. PA compliance improve, too, w/o worsening ventilation/perfusion mismatch.
🫁🩸🫀 Complex interactions drive such changes, with the aim of minimising CO while…

Today we launch our manifesto for the next UK Government for Building Better Intensive Care.

We want them to prioritise 5 key areas for a strong and sustainable intensive care service, properly resourced to care for critically ill patients.

bit.ly/ElectionPriori…

A 5‐Year Review of a Tracheostomy Quality Improvement Initiative: Reducing Adverse Event Frequency and Severity…our ⁦Cardiff and Vale University Health Board⁩ ⁦UHW Critical Care⁩ story! Not perfect but moving the right direction ⁦Jason Nunn⁩ ⁦Gemma Jones⁩ …-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oh…

Calling occupational therapists who have experience working in adult intensive care unit.
Important research!!
We want to hear from you!!
Please follow the link to participate in the e-Delphi study.
Critical Care Occupational Therapist Royal College of Occupational Therapists
@uhbtherapy Intensive Care Society 💙 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bham/ot-icu-…

Palliative critical care. Lots to consider but lots of benefit to patients, loved ones and the wider team in both ITU, pall care and in working alongside other specialties. Taken back to my STR training where we went to Torbay ITU MDT every week Ben Ivory James Bruce #PCC2024

Appearances can be deceiving: Implementing the Wessex Head Injury Matrix (WHIM) Alongside Occupational Therapy Assessment in Critical Care #SICS2024 Critical Care Occupational Therapist East Ayrshire HSCP Lynsey Gribben promoting the role of OT in Critical Care rehab #RightToRehab

Calling former ICU patients!! Join our research exploring the experience of returning to work, volunteering or studying after intensive care.

For full details email [email protected]

Great ICU OT SIM yesterday. How to switch from the vent to the trache mask guided by Tom Lunn. Was interesting for me being the other end. Rather vulnerable having people working around your neck. University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS FT Critical Care Occupational Therapist ACPRC Intensive Care Society 💙 JemmaKS_OT Ema Swingwood (She/her)

Oh hello goal setting! Communication with the wider team is essential. BACCN 💙 Critical Care Occupational Therapist ACPRC SLTsinCC Intensive Care Society 💙

Age & outcomes in adults with acute respiratory failure in VV #ECMO , analysis of ELSO registry (2017-2022)
🗃️ >27K pts/144 centres
🪦 41.5% in-hospital mortality
Increasing age strongly associated with poorer outcomes; risk emerges as early as 30 y
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📢UK ICU colleagues

National service evaluation - Animal assisted interventions

Please fill in this brief survey to tell us if you do/don't have any services, and share details

many thanks

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Kate Tantam (She/her) Megan Hosey Intensive Care Society 💙 BACCN 💙 ACPRC