We welcome you to ICS Radio. This episode is a recording of the Opening Plenary at ICS SOA  Dec 2019 This episode features  1. Welcome Ganesh Suntharalingam (ICS President) & Steve Mathieu (ICS Conference Director) 2.  Born to Survive? the Genetics of Life and Death Alice Roberts in conversation with Hugh Montgomery 3. A Gift of Life: Perspectives on Organ Donation and Deemed Consent Dale Gardiner, Paul Frost & Joanna Duckworth 4. Looking After Each Other in a Crisis: Lessons from Novichok Kate Jenkins 5. A Glance into the Future: What Will Be The Next Game Changer for Critical Care? John Myburgh, Hannah Wunsch, Danny McAuley & Peter Brindley  

This was the award winning SOA18 Gold Medal presentation by Dr Tom Hellyer. Information about the ICS Gold Medal can be found here https://soa.ics.ac.uk/goldmedal/

This year’s title, “Critical Care Game Changers” is your chance to think innovatively: think about the controversies facing our specialty now, next year, next decade…tell us your idea to change the game!  The top 5 scored abstracts submitted in response to this title will be invited to give a presentation to a panel of critical care experts on the main stage at the State of the Art meeting in Westminster on the 10th 11th or 12th of December 2018. Don’t be put off that all of our presenters will be subject to on stage ‘questioning’ by the dragons; it will be friendly fire. The best presentation as judged by the panel will be awarded the prestigious ICS Trainee Committee Prize for Controversies in Critical Care. All 5 accepted abstracts will also be published in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society’s e-supplement

This year’s title, “Critical Care Game Changers” is your chance to think innovatively: think about the controversies facing our specialty now, next year, next decade…tell us your idea to change the game!  The top 5 scored abstracts submitted in response to this title will be invited to give a presentation to a panel of critical care experts on the main stage at the State of the Art meeting in Westminster on the 10th 11th or 12th of December 2018. Don’t be put off that all of our presenters will be subject to on stage ‘questioning’ by the dragons; it will be friendly fire. The best presentation as judged by the panel will be awarded the prestigious ICS Trainee Committee Prize for Controversies in Critical Care. All 5 accepted abstracts will also be published in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society’s e-supplement

Kev Dhaliwal is Professor of Molecular Imaging & Healthcare Technology and Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine in Edinburgh. He leads an EPSRC interdisciplinary Hub based in the Medical School in Edinburgh developing novel technologies for interventional pulmonary medicine. PROTEUS (@EPSRC_Proteus) is the UK’s largest biophotonics healthcare project and is developing novel tools and technologies for respiratory critical care by exploiting the power of light to enable new insights. PROTEUS will develop new pathways and leverage the power of TEAM SCIENCE

Brian Cuthbertson is Chief of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also an Honorary Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute of Global Health in Sydney. His research interests include improving outcomes from critical illness and major surgery. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and $10million of research grants as well as playing a leading role in a number of key clinical guidelines.

Audrey Quinn Sarah Winfield Peter Watkinson Lisa Hinton Laura Vincent

Dr Lisa Hinton is a medical sociologist, and leads applied research in the Health Experiences Research Group (HERG). Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy makers and care providers. How research on patient and staff experiences can make a difference in these areas is at the core of her research interests.  Lisa has a portfolio of applied, mixed methods, social science research specialising primarily in women's health, in particular experiences of infertility, pregnancy, childbirth and neonatal care. She is also involved in several studies seeking to improve patient experiences in critical care.The role of digital technology in patient self-management and healthcare is another area of interest. Lisa leads qualitative work developing and evaluating complex interventions and is currently working on two clinical trials of self-monitoring of blood pressure.  One is studying the impact of SMBP during pregnancy and a second the impact of SMBP after a stroke or TIA (see Hypertension). She also leads a programme of work as part of the Oxford BRC's Partnerships for Health Wealth and Innovation theme exploring research participation and patient and public involvement.  Lisa has a developing interest in studying the potential for patient experiences research in resource poor countries. Initial work, in collaboration with colleagues at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust in Kenya, can be seen here: http://www.dipexinternational.org/2018/01/premature-birth-in-kenya-sharing-mothers-voices/  Lisa currently supervises doctoral students on a range of studies focused on maternal and newborn health  and nursing in the UK, Kenya and India. She teaches on the HERG Qualitative Research Methods courses and the MSc in Evidence-based Healthcare. Before joining the department in 2007 Lisa was a TV and web producer, working for the BBC and Channel 4.

Dr Peter Watkinson, Associate Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, is joint clinical lead for the Critical Care Research Group based at the Kadoorie Centre for Critical Care Research & Education at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He is an NHS consultant in intensive care and acute medicine and is part of the senior clinical team at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests focus on the identification of the deteriorating patient in hospital and he has designed and run a number of studies in the field of wearable monitoring devices. The research group is now exploring the opportunities offered through non-contact monitoring and standard electronically-recorded descriptors of a patient’s condition. The research group has a strong link with the University of Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering. Using data collected from thousands of patients’ vital signs in Oxford and elsewhere the multi-disciplinary team investigates ways to locate patterns which precede and predict clinical deterioration in hospitalised patients. Other areas of interest for the research group include development of electronic monitoring systems, use of human factors techniques to introduce new technology into the healthcare environment, and assessing the longer-term effects of critical illnesses on patients’ quality of life.

I work as a Consultant Obstetrician and am based at Leeds General Infirmary. I have a special interest in maternal medicine and high risk obstetrics and I run the Obstetric Cardiac and Renal Service in this tertiary referral centre. I also work with the Diabetes team and am part of the twice weekly Diabetic Antenatal Clinic at St. James’s University Hospital. I see women with pre-existing medical conditions for pre-pregnancy counselling and I participate in the consultant on-call rota at LTHT. I am the Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Network Clinical lead for maternity services and try to link this with my clinical role to optimise what can be achieved to improve maternity services for women and their families in Yorkshire and Humber.