Optimising Respiratory Care in the Critically Ill Patient

Nicki Credland

Nurse and Reader in Critical Care and Chair of BACCN

Nicki Credland is a Reader in Critical Care and Head of School at the University of Hull. She is a National Teaching Fellow and Chair of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN). Her role is to provide vision, direction, leadership and to develop strategy. This involves strategic leadership at a national level, chairing the executive board and national board. She holds positions on the National Critical Care Leadership forum, UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance and the Adult Critical Care Clinical Reference Group and is a specialist advisor in critical care nursing to NHSE. Involved in national and international research and education for critical care nursing Nicki was appointed Director for Nurse Education at the NHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire and the Humber during the Covid pandemic.

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Dr Robert Gatherer

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiac Anaesthesia, Royal Papworth Hospital

Rob is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiac Anaesthesia at Royal Papworth Hospital and Co-Director of the ECMO service, he also works for the London Adult Critical Care Transfer Service (ACCESS), and is the current Chair of the ICS Research division.

His clinical expertise lies in Cardio-pulmonary shock, and he is deeply committed to research and improvement of approaches and pathways for care of patients with acute Respiratory and Cardiac failure.

Rob is the current chair of the UKECMO Network Education group, and an active researcher both in traditional clinical research and novel research methodologies re-focusing our efforts towards team development, practitioner-patient interaction and better integration of scientific knowledge into practice.

Rob hopes to help shape a professional advisory group that evolves our understanding of the role of the Consultant in the modern Intensive Care landscape, championing our professional identity as practical philosophers through research innovation, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and elevating the intellectual and clinical standards of our field.

When not dashing about in the back of an ambulance or writing another grant proposal Rob most likes to be hanging out on the North Devon coast with his family, surfing, sailing or just mucking about on the beach.

Dr Matthew Gibbins

Consultant in ICM, ECMO and Anaesthesia , Bristol University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Matthew Gibbins is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, ECMO and Anaesthesia at Bristol University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His specialist interests include advanced ventilation and monitoring of ventilation, point-of-care lung ultrasound, cardiogenic shock, and advanced cardiovascular support. 

Conflict of Interest: Lecturer for Hamilton Medical.

Thomas Lunn

Tom is the ECMO Lead Physiotherapist at Bristol Royal Infirmary, a 45 bedded critical care unit in a busy inner-city hospital. Their specialities are SARF, Surgery, Oncology and Cardiac Services. Prior to his current post, he worked at St. Thomas's Hospital in London as a critical care, cardiac and surgery team lead. He is very passionate about early mobilisation, ventilation and the management of SARF patients.

Dr Ema Swingwood OBE

Consultant Physiotherapist, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

Ema is a Consultant Therapist (Physiotherapist by background) in Critical Care at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. Her area of clinical expertise and interest is ventilation, weaning and complex airway clearance. 

Having completed the Advanced Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Msc programme at University College London (UCL) in 2012, Ema has continued her research focusing on the use of Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation (MI-E) and other cough augmentation strategies. Her current PhD work focuses on the use of MI-E in the intubated population which is funded through the NIHR Clinical Academic Research Fellowship pathway. 

Extra-curricular activities include contributions to the Undergraduate Physiotherapy programme at the University of the West of England, and post-graduate teachings at University College London and Brunel University. She sits on the Intensive Care Society Physiotherapy Professional Advisory Group and Education Committee, the Equity, Diversity and Belonging Committee of the CSP, and ICUsteps support group network. She has been part of the multi-professional authorship for BTS/ICS documents related to Respiratory Support Units and Weaning Centres. Most recently, she is part of the NHSElect working group for the development of a Critical Care Capability Framework.

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