Surveys

The Models Of Safety Huddles in ICU (MOSHI) study is a national service evaluation for individual nurse managers in ICU's across the UK.

‘An exploration of the use of safety huddles in intensive care units (ICU) across the United Kingdom - a cross-sectional national e-survey' aims to to identify elements of the safety huddle that work well and could be developed into an evidence-based guideline to ensure consistent and effective practice.

The survey will ask about the content, structure, and style of the safety huddles in their clinical areas, as well as their perceptions of the huddles' effectiveness.   

This study is hosted by the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University and the team consists of:

Louise Stayt (Senior lecturer, Oxford Brookes University)

Jody Ede (Critical Care Clinical Academic, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)

Cherry Lumley (Clinical Governance Lead, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)

Please identify a nurse unit manager or a delegated senior nurse (E.g., a shift co-ordinator) to complete the survey and forward them these details.

The survey will ask about the content, structure, and style of the safety huddles in their clinical areas, as well as their perceptions of the huddles' effectiveness.   

We request only one survey is completed for each ICU. 

The survey will take approximately 30 to 40 minutes to complete.

Or by scanning this QR code:

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Dr Jody Ede (jody.ede@ouh.nhs.uk) or Dr Louise Stayt (louise.stayt@brookes.ac.uk).  

We're teaming up with the TRIC Network, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) and the English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance on the TRIC-MAN project - a national audit on antimicrobial stewardship, IPC practices in UK ICUs and addressing critical gaps in AMR data.

For patients with sepsis, early administration of appropriate antimicrobials is one of the most effective interventions to reduce mortality and the use of antimicrobials with insufficient coverage is associated with worse outcomes. This is against a backdrop of increasing antimicrobial resistance, a global threat to public health.

It is over twenty years since the last national survey of antimicrobial use specifically in Critical Care Units in the UK and the TRIC Network want to find out how often antimicrobials are prescribed according to guidance and how often they need changing due to antimicrobial resistance.

It will launch in March 2025 and the team are currently looking for local leads to help with data collection.

The project will start with a one-off site survey followed by a two week data collection period during March/April.

All involved in the study will be credited as collaborators for subsequent publications and receive a certificate acknowledging their involvement.

If you are interested please email visit the TRIC website using the button below, or get in touch with the team at tricmanstudy@gmail.com

Corticosteroids, precision medicine and sepsis

David Antcliffe of Imperial College London, Andrew Boyle and Jon Silversides of Queen's University Belfast and Aidan Burrell of Alfred Hospital Melbourne are seeking your views on the topic of corticosteroids, precision medicine and sepsis. 

While steroids are a widely-used and evidence-based adjunctive treatment in septic shock, there is emerging data suggesting heterogeneity of treatment effect: that while some patients with septic shock benefit from steroids, others may be harmed. 

The survey will take 5 minutes to complete and your responses may be used to inform the design of future clinical trials.

They would like to hear from any healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of sepsis and septic shock to explore current clinical practice in sepsis and how emerging biological phenotypes of sepsis may influence clinical practice. 

The survey will close April 30th so please circulate the link as widely as possible to your colleagues.

Are you a member of a regional organ donation services team or a qualified ACCP? 

We need your expertise!

ACT-DDONOR is a mixed-methods cross-sectional survey study examining the training needs of Advanced Critical Care Practitioners who care for consented organ and tissue donors. 

With the expanding role of ACCPs across the UK and rising donor numbers, more ACCPs are providing care for organ and tissue donors. Whilst the FICM syllabus covers core knowledge in donor management, there isn't currently a nationally agreed standard for ongoing training and development of ACCPs in this crucial area.

We're partnering with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) to change this.

Our research aims to develop standardised training specifically for ACCPs in managing consented organ and tissue donors.

Your insights will directly shape the future of ACCP education in organ donation care and this is your opportunity to influence national training standards and enhance the quality of donor care across the UK.

This study has obtained ethics approval via the Northumbria University Research Ethics Committee recognising its alignment with strategic objectives to enhance organ donation practices through standardised professional development.

Complete the survey below, it only takes a few minutes to complete:

Take part in a survey of vasoactive drugs in cardiogenic shock used to potentially shape the design of a clinical trial of vasoactive drugs in cardiogenic shock in the future. 

The survey is run by Peter McGuigan, consultant in ICM at Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast & Queen's University Belfast and Amy Boyle, specialty trainee in emergency medicine at Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast.

The survey contains 2 case vignettes and 7 short questions and should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

Responses are anonymous and may be used to inform the design of future clinical trials.

We welcome responses from the whole of the multidisciplinary team but recognize that many of the questions will be more relevant to respondents from a medical background. 

Your personal information will not be collected and data will be stored on the Queen's University Belfast REDCap server. 

Take part in this short survey on what dose of renal replacement therapy colleagues are prescribing, and whether they would support a future trial investigating lower doses - it takes 5 minutes to complete.

Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is routinely administered in Intensive Care Units in the UK. Previous studies compared different clearance rates and concluded that there was no mortality benefit with more intensive CRRT. As a result, current international guidelines recommend to deliver a CRRT dose (effluent flow rate) of 20 - 25ml/kg/hr.

However, results from observational studies (mainly from Japan) suggest that lower doses at 10-15ml/kg/hr may be sufficient without putting patients at risk but these doses have not been investigated in randomised controlled trials.

If lower doses are indeed sufficient and safe, less dialysis fluid will be needed and patients will lose less essential minerals and medications during CRRT. This will also decrease the work load of the nurses, generate less waste and save money, and it may help kidneys recovering better. Thus, there is a need for more research in this area.

In preparation for a potential future randomized controlled trial, we would like to explore current practice of CRRT dosing in ICUs in the UK.

The questionnaire is fully anonymised, held on a secure platform and no personal data will be collected. 

Consent is implied by the completion of the survey and the data will be analysed by Professor M Ostermann from Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital in London, UK, and be used to inform a future clinical trial.

For further information, please contact Marlies Ostermann at Marlies.Ostermann@gstt.nhs.uk

University of Manchester are exploring clinical decision making in the use of antibiotic treatment for sepsis - this is to ascertain current approaches to deciding when to STOP antibiotics for critically ill adult patients hospitalised with sepsis in critical care units or after discharge to hospital wards. 

This survey is targeted at health professionals who are responsible for clinical decision making about the use of antibiotics to treat people with sepsis - we anticipate this will be doctors and advanced nurse practitioners who are able to make prescribing decisions. 

This survey is based on a previous version that was used to help design the ADAPT-Sepsis randomised controlled trial. This trial has recently been published here.

Through this survey we aim to better understand current clinical decision making practices and these will inform further implementation activities. Some of the questions ask about your practice and some ask for your views about local readiness for making practice changes.

Findings from this survey are anonymous and the data you share may be published as part of reports and academic papers. We are asking for information about the Health Board or Trust you work in so we can group responses but they will not be reported in this way.

All information will be presented at an aggregate level and we will not present data where there are low numbers for specific respondent groups. 

For detailed information about how we plan to use and store the information you share with us, please read the University of Manchester data protection and confidentiality information. 

If you have any questions about this questionnaire or the survey, please contact jo.dumville@manchester.ac.uk

Take part in this survey which will be used to establish practice variability amongst critical care medicine physicians at consultant (or equivalent) level, in the preparation and performance of percutaneous tracheostomy procedures on critical care units across the UK. 

The survey is run by Jamie Gibson, Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Worthing Hospital.

This survey will help to address this knowledge gap as there is little literature evidencing practice variability in this area and should only take a few minutes to complete.

Feedback, questions or comments can be included at the end of the survey and the survey organiser can be contacted directly at jamie.gibson@nhs.net.