🔔CPD for the MDT 🔔 SICS Evening Education Update - Thurs 24th Oct @ 7pm Prof Brendan McGrath (Brendan McGrath), patient safety and tracheostomy care expert, will discuss all things tracheostomy - safety, weaning & communication Register ⤵️ app.medall.org/event-listings…

Free CPD for the whole MDT on all things tracheostomy! Link to register below

Has your brown envelope arrived? Confused? This one is DIFFERENT. If you paid AA 2015-22 watch 👇almost certainly means YOU are in for a REFUND. youtube.com/watch?v=eOzlu3… Need help (with your costs covered *). Ive partnered leading accountants to help👇 bit.ly/MazarsGoldstone

Principles for management of hip fracture for older adults taking direct oral anticoagulants (DOACS): an international consensus statement Of #Blocktober24 relevance - peripheral nerve blocks can reasonably be performed on presentation for patients with hip fracture who are

A reminder that our next free teaching meeting is coming up next week! Monday 14th October from 2pm (UK time) Peri-op TOE and cardiac imaging. email [email protected] for teams link. #echofirst

🧠💻 If you are a trainee or interested in critical care you can access our three interactive learning modules created by the Education and Training Group. Find out more about what’s involved 👉 buff.ly/3X8EFXQ #IntensiveCare

The first ever FICMNews Intensivist in Training Conference Over 150 in person attendance, 120 online, largest even at the faculty since the pandemic Great discussion from Prof Colin R Melville Daniele Bryden Charlotte Summers Anthony Gordon @Luigi_ICM Stella Vig #NHS and our amazing IiTs

The UK CMOs, DCMOs and NHSE National Medical Director have given advice to help doctors wanting to take part in the national debate on assisted dying. Please see the letter below: gov.uk/government/pub…

Come join a great academic training scheme Birmingham Acute Care Research Centre UoB School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology College of Medicine and Health (UoB) ACFs open - Intensive care medicine, Anaesthesia, Acute Medicine and Respiratory medicine! DM me for more info FICMNews British Thoracic Society (BTS) TRIC Network INSPIREresp SAM Online

Up to 82% of pregnant surgeons experience miscarriage, preterm delivery, and intrauterine growth restriction. Occupational hazards, including prolonged standing, physical exertion, overnight shifts, and teratogenic exposure, contribute to these risks. ja.ma/4eUXVQn

Chris Gough Natasha 𝙲𝚒𝚊𝚗𝙼𝚌𝙳𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚝 Teresa @cardiacLucy The Echo Lady Vitor Morgado Maria Matt Swift laura dobson Benoy Shah MD Prof Dan Augustine Prof David Oxborough @DrEmmaRees @bobbybalmoral Segun Olusanya (He/Him) [email protected] Thanks Chris, the donor echo proformas are in the standard SNOD packs currently and will be uploaded online shortly! Here is the current version: @ORCA_education have also done a nice educational video that will be available soon!

Charlotte Summers I think the peer review process is teetering: not in crisis but close to it. Too many journals Too many other demands Too few willing reviewers Even fewer quality reviewers I hear repeatedly that editors cannot find reviewers The whole of medicine has relied on ‘additional

Our final free cardiothoracic anaesthesia education meeting of 2024 is coming up on Monday 9th December. Non-clinical topics in cardiothoracic anaesthesia. From 2pm UK time, on MS teams. cardiothoracicanaesthesia.com for link

It's #FOAMed Thursday! We have a new #FICMLearning podcast out today on Treatment Escalation Planning with Dr Sonya Daniel. Find the latest episode here: bit.ly/FICMLearningPod

The winter edition of Resident Eye is out! If you’re looking for some light pre-Christmas reading, I wrote a short article on the importance of research in ICM and how intensivists in training can get involved. TRIC Network FICMNews ficm.ac.uk/resident-eye

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗠 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞 🇬🇧 🌍? FICMNews The future UK College of ICM celebrates diversity and inclusivity. Resident Eye Winter Edition: ficm.ac.uk/resident-eye

🧵1/6 The final TRIC Network NEAT-ECHO paper has been published in Intensive Care Medicine ! A summary: 🏥 179 ICUs 📡 96% of teams had an echo accredited clinician 👩‍🏫 89% had an approved mentor ✅ 95% felt positively about echo in ICU 🫀15% had 24/7 echo access link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Echocardiography in ICU 🔍survey by TRIC Network Intensive Care Society 💙 FICMNews & BSEcho, 178 🇬🇧 critical care units 🖥️significant heterogeneity in provision 🖥️96% had accredited clinician 🖥️16% of medical staff accredited in FOCUS & 4% in advanced #echo 🔓rdcu.be/d47LM 🧵1/2

📣 Thank you Intensive Care Medicine for sharing our findings with the ICM community. 🫀NEAT-ECHO demonstrated a need to improve UK echo provision & shock care, alongside the potential impact of trainee-led research. TRIC Network 📝 1: bit.ly/3AvjE1O 📝 2: rdcu.be/d47LM