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Eighteen months ago I moved jobs. I’m sure the trainees/rotational doctors reading this are thinking this isn’t anything worth blogging about, but as I’d been a consultant for 10 years it was quite a change for my world. I feel it helped me see the world, the NHS and critical care through different eyes and therefore I volunteered to write a blog for WICM about it...

Written by Dr Liz Thomas

In our interconnected world, email is an indispensable tool for professional communication. Whether you’re interacting with your close own colleagues, those of another speciality or those who work within the wider hospital infrastructure...

Written by Dr Gilly Fleming

In Life, put your little finger out and if someone pulls it, go with them.

I was told this when I was 20 by Prof Peter Baker (1939 – 1987), of squid neurone action potential fame (KCl). He was telling me to make the best of opportunities which come my way. I have tried to live by this since, and life has been interesting...

Written by Professor Barbara Philips

Blog written by Dr Samantha Gaw on her SSY in Education.

The project I have been involved in is withdrawal of life sustaining treatment (WLST) in the anaesthetic room for patients undergoing organ donation post diagnosis of death using circulatory criteria (lets hope I never have to try to fit that title on a poster). If I only had one take home message, it would be the power of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and the concept of collaborative autonomy...

Written by Dr Christopher Timmis

Words we thought we would never hear. Terrifying screams drowned out by the fire alarms. Thick black smoke filled the ward, flames flowing up the wall and across the ceiling, and windows shattered with the heat...

Written by Karen Stirling

The European Society of Intensive Care’s Annual Conference (LIVES) is typically held in destination cities across Europe, and when I saw that it was being held in Milan it seemed too good an opportunity to miss.  

I convinced one of my good registrar friends that us attending LIVES would be a good use of our time and our study budget...

Written by Dr Christopher Shaw

As the year draws to an end we thought we, as the members of The Women In Intensive Care Medicine committee, thought we would share some festive musings with you as our last blog of the year....

Written by Dr Jennifer Abthorpe, Dr Anna Stout, Dr Nish Desai, Dr Mishti Oberoi, Dr Aoife Quinn and Dr Liz Thomas

The Role of Critical Care Outreach Teams in Improving Care.

Over a decade ago a multi-collegiate working party produced the document “Providing equity of critical and maternity care for the critically ill pregnant or recently pregnant women” in an attempt to bring together the existing standards and recommendations for the care of women who became critically ill during their pregnancy or shortly after giving birth.

Written by Dr Cathy Challifour

Diversity and Inclusion

The Striking the Balance annual meeting is organised by the Women in ICM committee and aims to champion those none-clinical skills relating to human interactions that we use every day. Arguably these skills are more important and used more frequently than some of our more clinically based technical skills that we tend to focus on for our continuing professional development, as they form the basis for our interactions as a clinician...


Written by Dr Sarah Marsh