Practical Approaches to Paediatric Emergencies

Dr Sarah Burgess

Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Sarah grew up in the West Country and qualified from the University of Cambridge in 2012.  She decided that critical care was for her after watching a registrar do an RSI on a general medical ward and deciding this was the coolest thing ever! She has worked in Lancashire, Cambridgeshire, the West Midlands and London where she currently works as dual trainee in anaesthesia and ICM (she no longer approves of intubating patients on medical wards...)  She was elected to the ICS Trainee Advisory Group in late 2020, where she works for the education team.

Professor Akash Deep

Professor in Paediatric Critical Care, King's College London

Akash Deep is the Director of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit(PICU) at King's College Hospital, London, and Professor of Paediatric Critical Care at King’s College London.  He is also the Sepsis and Deteriorating Patient Lead for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.  Prof. Deep is the Staff Governor at King’s College Hospital, London.

Prof Deep is the current Medical President-Elect for the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Society (ESPNIC). He chairs the Liver Failure Working Group for ESPNIC. He is the Chair for the Liver Failure Working group for PALISI (Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators)  network.  He has been the Founding Chair for the Critical Care Nephrology Section of ESPNIC.

Prof Deep is the Chair for the Science and Education Committee of Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) of UK. He is the Senior Trustee to the UK Sepsis Trust and is the author of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for septic shock in children. Prof Deep is the Chief author of the Sepsis Toolkit for management of sepsis in children, released by the UK Sepsis Trust at the House of Commons.

Prof Deep has organised many national and international congresses on extracorporeal support,  CRRT and hosted the First International Conference of Critical Care Nephrology in London in 2023. He was the Organising Chairman for 2019 U.K National Paediatric Intensive Care Congress in collaboration with the U.S. Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS).

Prof is the Chief Editor for the official ESPNIC  textbook published by Springer on ‘’Critical Care Nephrology and Renal Replacement Therapy in Children’’. He is an invited national and international speaker in major Paediatric and Paediatric Intensive Care conferences. 

Special interests include various aspects of management of acute liver failure, especially extracorporeal support in acute liver failure in children, acute kidney injury in neonates and children, Continuous renal replacement therapy, sepsis education/awareness and haemodynamics in septic shock.

Dr Ajay Desai

Deputy Head of Service and Consultant Paediatric Intensivist , Royal Brompton Hospital

Dr Ajay Desai DCH, DNB, FRCPCH, FFICM is a senior paediatric cardio-respiratory intensive care consultant and Director of paediatric ECMO Program at Royal Brompton Hospital, Evelina London, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London.

Dr Desai is the co-chair for EuroELSO paediatric E-CPR subgroup. He is passionate about education and inter-professional team training. His key interests include neonatal and paediatric percutaneous ECMO cannulation, paediatric E-CPR and adolescent ECMO.

Dr Federico Minen

Paediatric Critical Care Consultant, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Federico Minen is a Paediatric Intensivist at Kings College Hospital, London. 

He studied Medicine in Italy and trained in Paediatrics at the Burlo Garofolo Paediatric Institute in Trieste, Italy. 

He leads the Neurocritical Care programme within the Paediatric Critical Care.

Dr Rum Thomas

Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care

Rum is a Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care and Deputy Medical Director at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust. She is Clinical Lead of Yorkshire & Humber Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network, Training Advisor for Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health’s Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine Intercollegiate SAC, as well as Clinical Member of the Clinical Reference Group of Paediatric Critical Care – NHS England.

Her clinical interests include transition from paediatrics to adult critical care and diabetic ketoacidosis where she has co-authored national guidelines for both. Her focus is also to promote equitable access to health care for children and young people.

Her other interests include development and training of postgraduate doctors in paediatrics and paediatric critical care, improving patient safety and quality of care, as well as increasing awareness of sepsis and its management. And, walking in the Peak District, travel and photography.

: @rum_thomas11