Academic clinical fellowships in intensive care medicine
The critical care research areas of interest are wide ranging in this multidisciplinary area, with collaborations with other specialties including pulmonary vascular medicine, MR radiology, rheumatology/inflammation and infectious diseases.
About the directorate
The directorate comprises general critical care units at the two main hospitals within the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Level 2 and 3 admissions are made to these units. The larger general unit comprises 36 beds on two floors in the critical care building at the Northern General Hospital, positioned close to theatres, anaesthesia/perioperative medicine, radiology and the emergency department, which is a Major Trauma Unit with helipad. There is an intensive care follow-up clinic, (with provision for PPIE interaction with patients are relatives).
There is close collaboration with neuro-intensive care and cardiac critical care, with a general ICM consultant working on the cardiac ICU during office hours together with the cardiothoracic anaesthetic consultant staff.
Areas of research
- Safety in intensive care medicine
- Respiratory support, ventilation and disease
- Education
- Perioperative care
- Neurocritical care
Track record and impact
We have supported trainees through higher degrees including PhDs. Those supervised/cosupervised by ICM Consultants have come from a range of backgrounds including intensive care medicine, critical care pharmacy, critical care nursing, architecture, intelligent systems engineering and microbiology.
The department has also supervised many BMedSci students (the majority achieving first-class degrees), resulting in a number of awards, together with Associate PIs and Nurse Research Internships.
Previous research has influenced inclusion of older people in clinical trials, the provision of Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation for Cancer Patients in Sheffield and South Yorkshire (LINK) and perioperative respiratory research with Provenet. Safety has been impacted via the original development of the FICM Critical Care Bulletin, involvement in the ESICM Safety Taskforce and critical care pharmacy safety collaborations nationally and internationally.
Resources and facilities
We have three embedded research nurses on intensive care medicine, who are part-time clinical and part-time research nurses based on the critical care units.
NIHR portfolio studies
CPEXTUBATE
UK NAVA
RELEASE APRV
REMAP-CAP influenzae
SOS
MOSAIC
Guards
Airways-3
Research staff
Academic lead
Teaching staff
- Dr Max Richardson
Research Lead for Critical Care
Research Interests include renal replacement therapy, including peritoneal dialysis.
- Dr Andrew Stuart
Interests in airway management.