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Accurate prognostication in life threatening brain injury is difficult, particularly at an early stage. The eventual outcome for such patients is often death or survival with severe disability. Controlled studies to provide evidence to guide decision making are few and the risk of a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’, with early prognostication leading...
In November 2017, the FICM Smaller and Specialist Units Advisor Group, led by Dr Chris Thorpe, published interim guidance on governance for smaller remote and smaller rural intensive care units which received good feedback. The aim of the document was to help clarify aspects of GPICS...
At the end of October we launched Critical Futures: A report on the First Wave Survey. The Faculty is delighted to have received such...
The FICM welcomes the RCoA's Welfare and Morale report. The FICM recognises the enormous importance of ensuring that the support given to doctors in training remains full and responsive, and as the report notes, this, along with training numbers growth, is...
Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote during the FICM Board Elections. The Faculty would like to congratulate those who were newly elected and re-elected. We would also like to thank the candidates who were unsuccessful on this occasion, we hope you will stand again in the...
The Faculty is pleased to release Science, skills and safety: a framework for medical student education in anaesthesia, intensive care, pain and perioperative medicine.
This important framework, started initially by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, developed into a wider project benefiting from the inclusion of intensive care and pain medicine. ...
Critical Works is a quick and easy to read summary of all the major projects in the works from your Faculty. Critical Works will become an annual brief summary of activity for FICM Fellows and Members.
Date: 06 November 2017
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network is delighted to announce the winners of the research awards run in partnership with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM). The awards, for members of the FICM, recognise research active consultants, specialty and associate doctors and
...Notice is hereby given that an election for six vacancies on the Board of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine will be held on 28th November 2017. Those eligible to vote (Fellows, Associate Fellows, Affiliate Fellows and Members) should have received...
The FICM Smaller and Specialist Units Advisor Group, led by Dr Chris Thorpe, have produced interim guidance on governance for remote and rural intensive care units. The aim of the document is to help clarify aspects of GPICS V1 which can be problematic for ICUs in remote and rural areas. If...