
Intensive Care Specialist; educator; researcher; @cicmanz fellowship examiner and research project reviewer
Ngunnawal country/Canberra
Joined August 2013
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๐ Thrilled to share I've completed my PhD @ANUMedicine!
Equal parts exciting, frustrating, and rewarding journey studying long-term outcomes for ICU survivors & families.
Thread ๐ #ICUSurvivors #PICS #CriticalCare #PhD
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ICU transfer: relief or new stress for families? ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ
๐ฌ Phenomenological qualitative study exploring relocation stress and support needs of family members within 48h of ICU transfer.
๐ ow.ly/3jjt50YpiLm
#FamilyCentredCare
๐๐ก๐ญ๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ ๐๐ป๐ด๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐
Hot off the press, the ANZICS Guidelines on Patient and Family Engagement in Critical Care Research and Registries launched at the Noosa CTG conference yesterday. We hope the information presented in these guidelines will help clinicians, researchers, and educators in their approach to patient and family engagement. We thank the many people who contributed to delivering these guidelines for our binational community.
Here is a potential consumer quote from the guidelines:
โTo all researchers, I extend this challenge: be as brave and vulnerable in your engagement as those who survive a critical care experience. We entrust you with our stories and our scars. Your task is to meet that courage with humility, curiosity, and commitment. If we do so together, research will not only generate knowledge - it will foster trust, equity, and healing.โย Belinda MacLeod-Smith (ICU caregiver).
๐ง๐ผ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐, ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ธ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐:
anzics.org/anzics-guidelinesโฆ
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Intensive Care Unit Sedation, Patient Memories, and Post-Intensive Care Psychological Distress tinyurl.com/2x8sz8b2 #icurehab #A2Fbundle
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Impacts of non-pharmacological interventions on post-intensive care syndrome: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials tinyurl.com/5n7aynzu #icurehab #A2Fbundle
3๏ธโฃ Psych symptoms, QoL & dyadic relations in family members
doi.org/10.1186/s13613-025-0โฆ
4๏ธโฃ Barriers to rehabilitation for ICU survivors
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3140โฆ
#PostIntensiveCare #ICURehab
๐ Grateful for incredible mentors: @IA_Mitchell @DrDaleNeedham Prof Frank van Haren, A/Prof Rhonda Brown.
And friends and colleagues from
@ANUMedSchool @ACT_CHS
Most importantly โค๏ธ โ thank you to patients & families who shared their stories, and research coordinators who made this possible.
Your courage drives better ICU recovery.
๐ซ Looking forward to new journey exploring how to improve outcomes for patients & families post-critical illness.
RT if you work in #ICUrecovery #PICS
#IntensiveCare
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Therapy dog visits in the ICU decreased patients' pain & reduced anxiety for both patients and their families a @critcareexplore study found. ๐ถ Hear insights from author Sumeet Rai, PhD, FCICM, in this episode of the SCCM Podcast: sccm.org/pod560
#SCCM
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๐ New Study: ๐ถ Canine-assisted intervention (CAI) offers immediate therapeutic benefits in reducing anxiety symptoms in ICU patients and their family members with no observed adverse effects.
Read the research from CCE: bit.ly/43Yj0Fl
#CritCareExplore #SCCM @SCCM
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Replying to @Drmanoj_s
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Courtney Perman presenting at #CHARMS2025 on why we need to break protocols and empower & promote bedside nurse led mobilisation in ICU. This QI demonstrated how it helps achieving mobilisation goals early. @CanberraICU
๐ถ Who let the dogs outโฆ into the ICU?
We surveyed #ICUs across Aus & NZ and found:
โ๏ธ 44% offer or have offered animal-assisted services with #dogs๐
๐ซ Barriers? Infection control, staffing & funding
#ICU #AnimalAssistedTherapy
@KristenRanse
Details ๐
australiancriticalcare.com/aโฆ
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๐จ ICU, Anaesthesia & ED crew โ ready to level up?
Join us in Canberra for a 2-day hands-on ABT Course (Airway, Bronchoscopy & Tracheostomy) ๐ซ๐ง
Expert-led, simulation-based, made for real-world practice.
Limited spots. Big impact.
#Airway #Bronch #Tracheostomy
Details ๐
๐ฅ Intermittent feeding in #ICU patients? ๐๏ธ
๐ Our meta-analysis shows evidence in critically ill patients is still weak.
sciencedirect.com/science/arโฆ
๐จ Need high-quality RCTs like the ICU FM trial below!
sciencedirect.com/science/arโฆ
#Nutrition #MedTwitter @ESPENsociety @panwar_yahoo
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Below โIn-bed cycling plus rehabilitation significantly reduced ICU and hospital length of stay, mechanical ventilation duration and improved functional status compared to rehabilitation. Further research is needed to analyse long-term effects and standardise interventions.โ
Effects of in-bed cycling in critically ill adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials tinyurl.com/yjr3r3xf #icurehab #A2Fbundle
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#therapydogs making waves at #canberra #ICU improving experiences for patients and family #ICUrehab begins in ICU. @ACTHealth @RegionCanberra
region.com.au/canberra-studyโฆ
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More news covering the #therapydog #research from #Canberra #ICU - improving outcomes for patients and family #icurehab @abcnews
abc.net.au/news/2025-05-09/tโฆ












