11.30am – 1pm BST, 2 July 2026 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
Abstracts
This session is designed to deliver concise, high-impact learning through a series of six rapid-fire presentations. Each talk provides practical, evidence-based insights drawn from across the multidisciplinary intensive care community, highlighting key advances and real-world applications in clinical practice.

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London

Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at UCL.ICU consultant at UCLH since 1993. Published mainly on sepsis and multi-organ failure, infection, shock, monitoring. Developed various monitoring and support devices and has two ‘home-made’ drugs in current development. Co-chaired Sepsis-3 Definitions International Task Force. Past-Chair, International Sepsis Forum. Emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator. Written various textbooks e.g. Oxford Handbook of Critical Care. Has run Medical Emergencies Courses for >25 years. Masochistic Spurs season ticket holder. Loves being iconoclastic and gently provocative.
Locum Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Sarah has been involved in the Intensive Care Society for many years, representing intensivists in training in the Trainee Advisory Group, and later as deputy chair and chair. She has run multiple study days for the society and has recently been appointed lead for CPD within the education division.
Sarah has recently qualified as a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, and is working as a locum consultant in Lister Hospital, Stevenage

Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Ben Lowe is a Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in the East Midlands. He is Deputy Chair of the Intensive Care Society’s Resident Doctors Group. At the ICS he sits on Council and the Standards and Guidelines Committee. In the next year his focus is on practical measures to improve the wellbeing of resident doctors and continuing his work scrutinising and developing the Society’s guidance.