ICS Cast

Alex is an Intensive Care specialist working in Wellington, having trained in London, Melbourne and New Zealand. He has been involved in the design and implementation of Rapid Response Systems in several different hospitals. Because of this, he is clinical lead for the New Zealand Health Quality & Safety Commission's national 'Deteriorating Patient' programme. In his spare time, when not walking his dog or his children, he builds websites & designs logos for Wellington ICU's prodigious research department. He has nearly written a lot more research papers & as such needs to spend less time on Twitter. He also once ventilated a chimpanzee but it didn't end well (for the chimp).

Gavin Perkins is Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Warwick. He leads the emergency and critical care group within Warwick Clinical Trials Unit. He served as Chief Investigator for the BALTI, BALTI-prevention and PARAMEDIC-1 (LUCAS) trial and is currently Chief Investigator for the PARAMEDIC-2 (Adrenaline) and Breathe Trials. Clinically he holds appointments as a Consultant Physician in Critical Care Medicine at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and MERIT Team Consultant with West Midlands Ambulance Service. Prof Perkins is a Director of Research for the Intensive Care Foundation and Clinical Speciality Lead for Critical Care (West Midlands CRN), Division 6 Clinical Research Lead (West Midlands CRN). He has been a member (2000-10) and then chairman (2010-present) of the ALS Sub-committee during which time he developed, evaluated and implemented the e-ALS course. He has served as ILCOR and ERC Co-chair for BLS/AED since 2010. In these roles he has developed collaborative networks with international partners and co-ordinated the revision to the 2015 Utstein cardiac arrest template. He was elected as ILCOR Co-chair in 2015.

Jerry is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath and Honorary Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Bristol. He trained at Bristol Medical School (MB ChB 1983) and undertook anaesthesia and critical care training in Plymouth, Bristol, Bath and Southampton, and at the Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore in the United States. Jerry is Chair of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), past Chair of the Resuscitation Council (UK), and the immediate past Co-Chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Cardiac Resuscitation Science from the American Heart Association in 2016. Jerry is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Resuscitation. Jerry's research interests are in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway management, and post-cardiac arrest treatment – he has authored over 300 original papers, reviews and editorials on these topics. 

Rachael graduated from the University of Hertfordshire and after spending some time working for the British Army and London Hospitals settled at the Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust in 2001. Rachael specialised in respiratory physiotherapy initially within cardiothoracic transplantation before moving into a rotational ICU Band 7 post. She developed a specialist interest in neuro-trauma and this role evolved to become the senior physiotherapy link within the North East long term ventilation team.

More recently Rachael was Respiratory Lead at St Georges Hospital, London managing a diverse team and specialities to now working in a new Consultant Physiotherapy post at Royal Preston Hospital. Rachael's area of expertise include complex ventilation and weaning and advanced airway clearance techniques for which she lectures and presents both in the UK and internationally and at pre and post graduate level.

Rachael currently sits on BTS Council and the Critical Care Specialist Advisory Group representing AHPs, is an expert member of NHSE Patient Safety Group, AHP representative on the NIV NCEPOD study, Co-chair HMV-UK, Chair Respiratory Leaders in Physiotherapy UK, Board Member and Trustee St Catherines Hospice and most recently elected onto Physiotherapy Council.

Marcus Peck is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Frimley Park Hospital, a founding member of the FICE committee, and its current chair. He is an enthusiastic FICE trainer, and teaches widely, believing that all clinicians in front line specialities should have focused ultrasound skills

Dr Susanna Price trained in both cardiology and intensive care medicine in the UK, and completed a fellowship at the Thorax center with Jos Roelandt. She was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London, and following completion of her training was awarded the two-year BHF Jill Dando GUCH Fellowship in order to train further in critical care and imaging in congenital heart disease. She is a consultant at the Royal Brompton Hospital where she is Clinical Lead for Critical Care, Honorary Senior Lecturer at National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Dr Price is President-elect of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Acute Cardiovascular Care Association, and sits on numerous committees including the ESC Education Committee, ESC Press & Media Committee, ALS subcommittee of the RCUK and SCCM US guideline committee. She is an Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal of Acute Cardiovascular Care, and an invited reviewer for a number of other journals. She has been a member of a number of Task Forces relating to international guidelines including VA-ECMO, acute cardiovascular care, the management of cardiovascular diseases including valvular disease, endocarditis, non-cardiac surgery, pulmonary hypertension, pericardial disease, cardiovascular disease in pregnancy and grown-up congenital heart disease. Dr Price has authored numerous papers and book chapters on cardiology, echocardiography and intensive care, and lectures regularly globally

Chair: Simon Finfer

Understanding the epidemiology and outcomes - Kathy Rowan

Timing and choice of vasoactive drugs in sepsis - Anthony Gordon

Steroids in sepsis - Manu Shankar-Hari

Is Vitamin C the answer? - David Sweet

What will improve outcomes in resource limited settings? - Madiha Hashmi

How can we make sepsis trials “work”? - Hallie Prescott

Panel debate each speaker will introduce their topic and straight to discussion!

Simon Carley is Professor of Emergency Medicine in Manchester, England. He is an active clinician at Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. He has published over 100 papers in clinical journals with research interests in disaster medicine, diagnostics, evidence base medicine and medical education.

He has additional roles as associate editor of the Emergency Medicine Journal. As a co-founder and developer of the BestBets and St.Emlyn’s websites he has integrated web based learning into all levels of EM education.

He developed the StEmlyns Blog to share learning across the globe in the true spirit of #FOAM.