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Meetings can be fascinating places, even if the topic at hand is dry. There’s a skill to being a meeting attendee that I think can be learned, and whilst I make no claim to be an expert, the following learning points include mistakes I’m embarrassed to have made…

Written by: Dr Peter Hersey

Having attended previous mentorship courses and workshops I have always realised the benefits of being both a mentor and mentee, yet I have never before signed up to have a mentor. Why? I guess I was worried...

Written by Dr Laura Coleman

The pros and cons of an electronic clinical information system (CIS) in ICU and its implications during the pandemic.

Written by: Dr Jon Sturman

I cycled in because how else was I meant to enjoy the unexpected heatwave during a 12-hour shift? This ran through my mind for the next 2 weeks whilst I sat home dealing with a fractured clavicle and maxillary sinus...

Written by Dr Alexandra Kendall-Smith

This is an account of an unexpected major incident that involved 47 tourists and sadly resulted in the deaths of 22 people.

Written by: Dr Christopher I’Anson

In January 2018 I was at a bit of a loose end. I was in the last 6 months of my CT2b year of ACCS anaesthetics. During a theatre list I was talking to one of my consultants who recommended a year in Australia. What was meant to be one year out turned into four...

Written by Dr Emily Reynolds

Should Intensive Care Medicine Registrars have training in Palliative Care?

Written by: Stuart Edwardson

I started my career in critical care nursing in 2007 only a few months after graduating as a registered nurse. I knew early on in my nurse training that I wanted to work in ICU...

Written by Dr Fran Tait

FAST HUGS is a widely used pneumonic within critical care but what do FAST HUGS mean to a pharmacist?

Written by: Claire Hannah, Grainne Smyth and Anne Neally.

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