Management of problematic, new-onset SVT/AF in Critical Care – Case Study

Dr Sotiris Antoniou

Consultant Pharmacist & Divisional Director, St Bart’s Hospital

Sotiris is clinical director for clinical services division at St Bartholomew’s Hospital which includes representing the division at hospital board, and being accountable for performance and improvement within the division and effective working of the divisional leadership team.  The division includes imaging, nuclear medicine, psychological services, out patients, therapies and pharmacy.  This role is in addition to Sotiris’ current role as associate director of Pharmacy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and as Consultant Pharmacist at Barts Heart Centre, part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Combined with his role as Clinical Advisor for UCL Partners supports medicines optimisation across the health economy to optimise patient outcomes and address unmet local needs.

He is also chair of an international Pharmacist group (iPACT) of over 20 countries aimed to improve pharmaceutical care around anticoagulants and cardiovascular disease.  He is an independent prescriber and previous chair of the cardiac committee for United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA).  More recently, Sotiris was on the board of ESC ACNAP (Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professionals) and recently won the 2023 Health Service Journal award – Medicines, Pharmacy and prescribing initiative of the year for the development of a specialist pharmacy led cardiovascular risk factor management in primary care, whereby pharmacist from Barts Heart Centre are employed across the ICB optimising medicines use within cardiovascular prevention.

Sotiris has served on many NICE development groups including Unstable Angina/NSTEMI guideline, stable angina and STEMI guidelines and is a current NICE TA member of the highly specialist technology appraisal group.  Sotiris is also an adjunct assistant professor at Purdue University, USA.   

Dr Hakeem Yusuff

Consultant Intensive Care Medine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester

Dr Yusuff trained in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in the Northwestern deanery, Manchester. He underwent further training in cardiothoracic intensive care and ECMO at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. He is a consultant at Glenfield Hospital, an honorary senior lecturer in the department of respiratory sciences, University of Leicester. His research interests include extracorporeal life support, right ventricular failure in critically ill patients and management of coagulopathy.

: @drhaty