Speakers
Marcus Peck
Professor Hannah Conway
Dr Ashley Miller
Dr Justin Kirk-Bayley
Professor Zudin Puthucheary
Prashant Parulekar
Jennie Stephens
Abstracts
Point-of-care ultrasound continues to transform critical care by enhancing diagnostic accuracy, guiding therapeutic interventions, and improving quality of care. This session will showcase a selection of outstanding case-based abstracts and video abstract submissions demonstrating impactful applications of ultrasound in the ICU. Presenters will illustrate how ultrasound has been used to support real-time decision-making and optimise patient management.
There will be the usual expert commentary and banter from the FUSIC team, alongside invited talks from Dr Jennie Stephens (FUSIC Co-chair) and Dr Ross Prager (Consultant Intensivist, Canada), offering insights into current innovations and international perspectives in critical care ultrasound.
Speakers:
1. Jennie Stephens: TBC
2. Ross Prager: TBC
3. Muhammad Abdul-Haleem: An Unusual Cause of Shortness of Breath
4. Awe-shesh Mukherjee: Septal Rupture - a critical Time sensitive diagnosis with high mortality
5. Tim Hutchinson: Starry, starry night – a case of effusion affecting weaning
6. Josh Chambers: Unmasking the unexpected: PoCUS diagnosis of endocarditis in a critically unwell patient
Marcus Peck is an NHS anaesthetist & intensive care consultant, past-cochair and current network lead of the Intensive Care Society’s Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (“FUSIC”) committee, and editor of the OUP textbook 'Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound'. He is a passionate POCUS advocate, who speaks and teaches widely, and sits on multiple national committees focused on improving POCUS training opportunities and quality assurance. He relishes breaking down organisational barriers and dreams of the day when POCUS is normal practice for every frontline clinician. You can find Marcus on X as @ICUltrasonica".
Hannah Conway is an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner and Associate Professor of Advanced Clinical Practice, specialising in cardiothoracic critical care. As National Lead for FUSIC® Heart and Chair of the Advanced Practitioners in Critical Care Professional Advisory Group, she champions the development of critical care education and professional standards.
Justin Kirk-Bayley is a Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthetist at Royal Surrey NHS Trust in Guildford, UK where he has been Clinical Lead for ICU, and is now Deputy Medical Director. His clinical passion is for pragmatic delivery of point of care ultrasound, having run a training fellowship for over a decade and being a part of the ICS’s FUSIC committee. He has published and teaches ultrasound around the world. As his Trust’s Professional Director for Therapeutics, he is committed to medication safety and optimisation, lecturing internationally about improvement in medication process and has helped found the Turning the Tide group to improve the UK’s use of intravenous fluids. (@Turningthe_Tide)
Dr Zudin Puthucheary is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine at the William Harvey Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, and a Consultant at the Royal London Hospital Adult Intensive Care Unit. He graduated from Nottingham University in 1997, and moved to London post MRCP in 2000. Following a 3-year stint in Sydney, he started his Respiratory training in Bristol, before completing his critical care training in London. He worked as a Respiratory and Critical Care Consultant at National University Hospital Singapore before returning to the UK.
His research focusses on acquired functional disability, and the use of metabolic, nutritional and exercise interventions to prevent and treat muscle wasting, and has published over 100 papers with a H index of 39. Zudin is a nationally elected Council member of the Intensive Care Society (UK). He was the inaugural chair of the UK National Post-Intensive Care Rehabilitation Collaborative, a multi-professional cross-disciplinary group focussing on rehabilitation and restitution of critical illness survivors. His work on acute muscle wasting has won awards from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine , European Society of Anesthesia, the British Thoracic Society, the Intensive Care Society, The American Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition and Zudin was named a Global Rising Star by the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.
He chairs the UK National Post-Intensive Care Rehabilitation Collaborative, a multi-professional cross-disciplinary group focussing on rehabilitation and restitution of critical illness survivors.
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@Zudin_P
Prashant is a Consultant in Intensive Care, Acute & General Internal Medicine at William Harvey Hospital (East Kent Hospitals). He is an honorary senior lecturer at Queen Mary University London (QMUL), giving lectures regarding the role of echocardiography in resuscitation and chairing tutorials on diagnostics and imaging modalities in resuscitation. He teaches and lectures at both regional and national ultrasound and echo conferences and courses.
He is member of the national Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee and is BSE Level 2 accredited in Critical Care Echocardiography. He is a FUSIC & FICE (Focused Intensive Care Echocardiography) supervisor & mentor and runs national FUSIC courses. He is published in research in the use of echo and ultrasound in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine and in the assessment of haemodynamic status using echo.
Prashant was the Chief Investigator (CI) for the national lung ultrasound and echo CORONA study (COre ultRasOund of covid in iNtensive care & Acute medicine) assessing the lung ultrasound features and the incidence of left and right ventricular dysfunction in COVID ICU patients. He is the creator and co-host of Ultra Live, the world’s first live POCUS gameshow at the SOA this year.
Jennie is a Consultant in Intensive Care and Acute Medicine in, the sometimes sunny but always beautiful, Cornwall in Southwest England.
She is an avid point of care ultrasonographer and teaches bedside scanning on a regular basis. She was a founding member of three of the major working groups for point-of-care ultrasound training in the UK (FUSIC, FAMUS and CACTUS). She continues to contribute educational material, time and enthusiasm to all three.
She has an interest in enhanced care delivered outside of the critical care setting. She has contributed to recent national guidance from the Society of Acute Medicine and Intensive Care Society helping define how this is best delivered.
She is mum to two young boys, cross-fit enthusiast and occasionally competent gardener.
As an Intensivist at London Health Sciences Centre and a Clinical Scholar at Western University, Canada, Ross combines his clinical expertise in critical care medicine with research interests in critical care ultrasound and evidence-based knowledge translation.
His current research projects focus on venous congestion in septic shock, knowledge translation within critical care medicine, medico-legal implications of point-of-care ultrasound, and AI lung ultrasound classification. He is a member of the project Deep Breathe, a multidisciplinary collaboration that aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases using ultrasound and machine learning. His goal is to advance the field of critical care ultrasound and enhance its clinical application and impact.