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The Faculty has today published a short research survey into critical care bed capacity. The full report is available here.
We are pleased that the Guardian have produced a detailed article on its important findings.
The key messages:
3/5 of units do not have a full critical care nursing complement.
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The Faculty supports the Academy of Medical Royal College’s ‘Summary Guidance: Entering Information into an e-Portfolio’, which is available here.
We would also like to draw attention to the recent statement of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health on their meeting on the issue of Dr Bawa-Garba’s...
The Difficult Airway Society in collaboration with the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Intensive Care Society and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, has published new national guidance on the insertion of life-saving breathing tubes (intubation) and managing the airway of critically ill patients. These new guidelines have been...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine support the Academy's statement on this important case. We will be reviewing any implications for our specialty going forward.
The FICM Training, Assessment and Quality Committee (FICMTAQ) publishes an annual report on quality data collected and reviewed during the previous training year, and we are pleased to advise the QA Annual report covering 2017 has just been launched.
Please click here to see the full report, and previous reports are also on...
Happy New Year from the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
If 2017 was as busy a year for you as it was for the Faculty, you may have missed some of the publications we released over the last few months, which ranged from policy to undergraduate training to workforce and beyond. ...
Critical Care is an enormously rewarding speciality to work in. The work is constantly interesting and varied, such that it's possible to maintain a career long fascination with the speciality. There is emotional reward in the profound difference we can make, both individually and as a...
Accurate prognostication in life threatening brain injury is difficult, particularly at an early stage. The eventual outcome for such patients is often death or survival with severe disability. Controlled studies to provide evidence to guide decision making are few and the risk of a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’, with early prognostication leading...
In November 2017, the FICM Smaller and Specialist Units Advisor Group, led by Dr Chris Thorpe, published interim guidance on governance for smaller remote and smaller rural intensive care units which received good feedback. The aim of the document was to help clarify aspects of GPICS V1 which can be...
At the end of October we launched Critical Futures: A report on the First Wave Survey. The Faculty is delighted to have received such a positive reception from both individuals and partner organisations.
Please click here to get an update on initial progress on the 12 recommendations. We...