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.

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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.