Speakers
Abstracts
At the Intensive Care Society’s State of the Art meeting, we are keen to showcase all the great work that is taking place across the country, be it critical care research, audit, innovations or interesting clinical cases. This year we have had the greatest number of abstract submissions and have shortlisted six highest scoring ones to be presented. The winning abstract and speaker will be announced in the closing plenary on 3rd of July at 13:30.
Chaired by Dan Martin
Speakers:
1. Hatty Jacobs: The use of Airway Pressure Release Ventilation in patients with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure in intensive care – indications and outcomes
2. Dominic Truong: The Short Physical Performance Battery is a valid and sensitive tool in survivors of critical illness: international clinimetric secondary analysis.
3. Lorna Abraham: Collaborative Global Critical Care Grand Rounds: A Networking and Training Tool - A Kenyan and UK Perspective.
4. Ruby Shaikh: Implementing the Family Liaison Practitioner role in Critical Care at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust – a service evaluation proving the concept of an innovative new role to improve the experience of patients, families and staff.
5. Aybaniz Ismayilli: Improving laryngopharyngeal sensitivity by restoring trans-laryngeal airflow after tracheostomy for critical illness with above-cuff vocalisation.
6. Akila Shakir: Who do they think you are?
Dan Martin is a professor in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Derriford hospital and university of Plymouth.
His research interest is focused on oxygen physiology; in particular how humans adapt to low levels of oxygen and the potential harm caused by excessive oxygen. He was involved in a series of research expeditions to high altitude with the Xtreme Everest team defining oxygen physiology near the summit of Mount Everest where they recorded the lowest oxygen levels ever reported in humans. The group is studying the key adaptive processes required to survive such low levels of oxygen through a wide range of studies at various altitudes.
He is currently the chief investigator for the NIHR funded UK-ROX trial and EXAKT study in the UK. UK-ROX trial is investigating if giving a little less oxygen than usual to critically ill patients on a mechanical ventilator will improve their survival. The aim is to recruit 16,500 patients from 100 NHS intensive care units. In the EXAKT study we will be investigating the accuracy pulse oximeters in critically ill patients with different skin tones, to answer a very important question about these essential oxygen monitoring devices.
I am also very interested in exercise and how it can be used to improve clinical outcomes. We have used a tailored exercise intervention to train patients waiting for liver transplantation and I am the co-chief investigator of the NIHR-funded EXALT trial in which we will further evaluate the effect of exercise around the time of liver transplantation. I am also invoked with a study to explore the benefits of exercise programmes in patients awaiting bariatric surgery.
I am the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia academic training coordinator and Royal College of Anaesthetists Bernard Johnson advisor for academic training. I am passionate about promoting academic training for both doctors in training and allied health professionals. I supervise a number of higher degree students including scientists, medical doctors and allied health professionals.
I have been the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Intensive Care Society for the last four years and sit on the Council of the Intensive Care Society.
In 2015 I was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for services to the prevention of infectious diseases. This was the result of our work at the Royal Free Hospital in London, caring for patients with Ebola virus disease.