PICU Consultant, London. Researcher of critical care physiology in children. Doubter of dogma. Ethical eye brow raiser. Chronically uncertain.

Joined July 2013
The HSE new RSV immunisation programme has protected nearly 12.5K infants so far this year. Since Sept 1st, almost 95% reduction in hospitalisations in target group of infants compared to last year and > 90% reduction in ICU admissions. Comhgairdeas leis na foirne uilig.
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Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab @cambridgeuni studying the immune responses to pneumonia in the lung & blood. What mechanisms drive lung injury, & how can we treat them. 🧵 below Two options -standard medschl.cam.ac.uk/understand… or + industry placement medschl.cam.ac.uk/detection-…
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Hello UK PICU friends - could I please ask for your help! I have a short three-question survey to get some rough baseline data about oxygenation/respiratory support practices to help with a grant application imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jf… @pic_pram
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Samiran Ray retweeted
A liberal transfusion strategy compared with a restrictive strategy resulted in a lower rate of unfavorable neurological outcome among patients with acute brain injury. ja.ma/3ZXqw2S #LIVES2024
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Interested in joining the Paediatric ICUs at #GOSH? Come along to our open day. All welcome - adult and paediatric nurses. @GoshJobs
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Help improve children's emergency care! 🚨 Share your voice in our final online survey: What are the Top 10 questions researchers should answer to improve emergency care for children and young people? #PEM #HealthResearch #ChildrensHealth Survey link: redcap.link/PEMPSP-Survey2
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Super two days at GOSH @GOSHDRIVE with the #PHEMS collaborators discussing federated learning for paediatric use cases across Europe @TheHyveNL @GOSHCharity @HUS_fi @lrb93 @aridhia phems.eu
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Hannah Mitchell presenting associations between deprivation, ethnicity and pollution and the risk of mortality in PICU patients over 10 years in the UK. Competing for the Young Investigator of the year, a superstar in the making! @SarahESeaton @pic_pram @PICANetAudit #espnic2024
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Respiratory strategies for NIV use by ⁦@pic_pram⁩ - audience spilling out - we need a bigger room! #espnic2024
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Super to see this presented with the whole dataset (Spain, UK and Italy). Important data, and much more to analyse 👏 @laurabutragueno @FChiusoloMD @AvishaySarfatti and all others who contributed data! #espnic2024
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Hurry - job ads for NOT 1️⃣ but 2️⃣@imperialcollege data scientists to work on #PedsICU data and develop #AI tools to help sick children closes 12th Feb. Apply now! @matkomorowski @agordonICU @ImperialAI @ImperialDSI @AI4HealthCentre imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descript… imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descript…
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"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital." - Noam Chomsky
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Out today in @SciReports - the PICNIC SDD pilot trial and feasibility study - first multi centre study of SDD use in the #pedsICU is here rdcu.be/ds5Hz @NIHRresearch funded feasibility study run at Cambridge, Southampton, Oxford, Bristol, St George's Birmingham @ICNARC
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Replying to @NIHRresearch
@NIHRresearch Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) posts in paediatrics are now open for applications in London - they are a fantastic opportunity to combine paediatric and academic training @LspTcAcademic oriel.nhs.uk/Web/PermaLink/V…
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Excellent discussion so far @pic_pram @PICSociety #pccssg about the proposed platform trial domains - engagement beats uncertainty!
Less than 2 hr to go to the Autumn @PICSociety #pccssg meeting - discussions regarding a Platform Trial, updates on ongoing #PedsICU research and 🆕💡ideas! Details re:how to join on poster. Starts 1030 Uk time. @pus27 @lyvonnetume @katebrown220 @ICNARC @DavidHarrison80
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Close to 80 participants at @PICSociety #pccssg autumn meeting! Fantastic to see such engagement 🙂
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How has our NHS come to this? 🚑 arrived FIVE hours ago to ED ?❤️ My dad still has NINE other patients in 🚑🚑ahead of him. He has been looked after by the most fantastic paramedics but they should be out attending to other 999 calls. THIRTEEN years of underinvestment – at Plymouth, England
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GOSH is looking for a Clinical Fellows in Paediatric Critical Care- PICU, NICU, CICU, CATS! More information below: jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv… #GOSH #jobs # medical #clinical #paediatric #fellow
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Not sure I can agree with this (and the responses) any more than I do. It is a self-propagating industry.
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