Each poster has been given a number. This relates to its poster board number.
1. Survey of management of cardiac arrest survivors in UK intensive care units
AH Ford, T Clark, K Shelley, EC Reynolds, C Ross, L Simmonds, M Thomas, J Soar, J Nolan, J Benger
2. Improving the quality of documentation during intra-hospital transfer of level three patients
A Bartram, G Gibbon, A Howatson
3. A bundle of care to reduce catheter-related blood stream infection in a general ICU
L Bates, A Griffiths, C Lamont, A Hall
4. Just pregnant or critically unwell? Four-year review of obstetric patients admitted to a district general intensive care unit
A Cavalier, B Bray
5. Internet-based feedback improves departmental teaching
A J Clarkin
6. Tracheostomy in a neurosciences intensive care: a two-year prospective observation
B Millette, S Raby, D Shlugman, H Madder
7. Complications related to tracheostomy tube change outside intensive care: evaluation of our practice
B Kathiresan, T Quinnell, K Slack
8. Pre-morbid performance status and intensive care outcome
B Sloan, B Besteiro-Grandio, L Eyre
9. ICU blood test profiles – do we need to test everything?
C Kaye
10. Not ready for the ward – A feasibility study for the development of a bridging facility between high dependency care and the ward
CV Higenbottam, H Harvey, R Browne, A Barrios
11. Does a high standardised mortality ratio indicate poor quality care? Retrospective analysis of ICNARC coding method and Apache II scoring with case record review
C V Higenbottam, J F Bion
12. Patient feedback from intensive care patients, what can it tell us and what are the implications for revalidation?
C Heath, TE Sams, S Bonner, J Mullenheim
13. An audit of temporary tracheostomy practice – introduction of a hospital care pathway to improve tracheostomy care
C Dixon, R Lathey, C Sri-Chandana
14. Kinetic glomerular filtration rate (KeGFR) may predict need for renal replacement therapy
CD Newson
15. An audit of ICS core standards in a neurosciences intensive care unit
D Wood, B Millette, S Raby
16. Austerity in the NHS: small changes can make a difference
D Fawkes, K Kiff
17. Rethinking and redesigning ICU escalation pathways for critically unwell patients
D Katarey, A Curtis
18. Comparison of two methods of controlled temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
H Hendra, D Hall
19. Vancomycin infusion audit
D Macrosson, A Crosby, J Roberts, A Wallis
20. A review of elective surgical patients admitted postoperatively to the intensive care unit
E Senver, R Maeda, R Howard-Griffin
21. Critical care outreach Boussignac CPAP: an interim CPAP service evaluation
E Senver, L Carpenter, R Lloy
22. Lung protective ventilation in mechanically ventilated theatre patients
E Patrick, S McKechnie, I Ausa, L Frost, W Arumemi-Ikhide
23. First use of veno-venous membrane gas exchange in a district general hospital
EA Quinn, AD Walder
24. Critical care outreach – delivering high-flow nasal oxygen therapy on the wards
E Helme, C Ruse, R Loveridge
25. Early onset pneumonia post cardiac arrest in the era of normothermia
SWARM
26. Variation in antibiotic therapy for pneumococcal septicaemia: a case series
E Howells, E Nelson
27. Safer fluid prescribing – a foundation doctor-led quality improvement project
EC Reynolds, D Paul, J Andersson, T Bull, R Hair, K Trivedi, H Eisenhauer, M Davies, A Nishimura, D Maggs, J Lloyd, S Clapham, A Jetley, B Plumb
28. Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome secondary to Choclo virus: a case report
EC King, SC West, TO Brougham, LJ Herbert, AQA Teo, SL Todhunter, B Bovill, EJ Aarons, JM Brown
29. Aetiology and outcome of critically ill patients undergoing renal replacement therapy: a retrospective study
F Khan, S Mohamed, J Szafranski
30. Chest injury and intensive care: outcomes from a major trauma centre
IT Smith, R Lowsby, N Bhuiyan
31. Diagnosing death: a prospective audit of knowledge and practice in diagnosing and certifying death
IJ Whitehead, JC Wright, S Bonner
32. Introducing citrate anticoagulation for CRRT – interim report
I Otahal, P Havalda, S Miles
33. The Kingston perioperative optimisation pathway: a quality improvement project
M Rojo, JW Zwaal
34. Use of inhaled nitric oxide in intensive care for the management of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome in haemoncological patients
J Pennington, K Sprigge, J Mawby, S Cone, J Down
35. How is your unit using the new ICS core standards? A "gap analysis" in Oxford
J Strachan, S McKechnie
36. Safety monitoring for propofol infusion: are we doing enough?
JL Gross, A Prasad, M Kadr, AA Radia
37. A sustained progressive reduction in the acquisition of MRSA colonisation across an 18-bedded level 3 mixed neurosurgical and general intensive care unit
A Neumann, M Ghrew, E Parkin, E Boxall, S Chinari, J Naisbitt
38. Zero Clostridium difficile acquisition in an 18-bedded level 3 mixed neurosurgical and general intensive care unit: a three-year quality improvement clinical practice intervention
E Parkin, A Neumann, E Boxall, A Jeans, J Naisbitt
39. Increasing the likelihood of awakening from coma through auditory stimulation
J Daltrozzo, CM Conway
40. Do no harm? The perils of infection control
J Breeze, E Smithson, L Poole
41. Not all cirrhotics are equal: acute-on-chronic liver failure in the ICU
J Millar, J McPeake, R Fulton, J Kinsella
42. The use of therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital
J Cassell, J Kinsella, K Oliver
43. Attitudes to co-enrolment on intensive care: nursing opinions reviewed
KM Wilkinson, M Bland, A Krige
44. Sitting patients out of bed in intensive care: a focus group evaluation of physiotherapists' experiences and culture
L Osman, A Curtis, G Cork
45. A strategy for quality improvement on ICU
M Powell, G Randhawa, B Sloan, A Breen
46. Teaching acute illness management in Uganda
M Jackson, S Whiting, S Cook, L Byrne-Davis, J Hart, H Slattery, R McCarthy, G Yuill, M Surgenor, A Stevens, G Byrne
47. Abstract withdrawn
48. Emergency management of tracheostomy (EMT) box: a patient safety initiative
M McAlindon
49. Management of tracheostomy on intensive care at QEHB
M McAlindon, R O'Leary, J Sinnott, L Allen, N Abeysinghe
50. Root cause analysis for all intensive care admissions: a useful tool for improving care of the deteriorating patient?
M McEvoy, T Hirst, J Wood, A Gerrard
51. Non-invasive ocular microtremor measurement technology for rapid assessment of comatose patients in intensive care
M Norkus, D Coakley, G Boyle
52. Should all high-risk elective surgeries have cardio-pulmonary exercise testing as part of preoperative assessment?
G Bagchi, N Santana-Vaz, B John, L Linhartova, E Parkes, B Chakraborty, R Mukherjee
53. Effect of a weekly ventilation multidisciplinary meeting on respiratory patients' journey through intensive care – a retrospective observational study
N Santana-Vaz, B Chakraborty, K Morley, G Raghuraman, R Mukherjee
54. Patients being ventilated with a cuff-inflated tracheostomy can safely be fed an oral diet
N Ledlie, T Cobby
55. CPET in colorectal patients: it's more than just an anaerobic threshold
NR Plummer, C Slawinski, D Richardson, T Owen, S Laha, A Jadav
56. Trainee working patterns – referrals to the ICU
K Arulkumaran, N Arulkumaran
57. Speciality involvement and consultant review in intensive care: audit of practice against ICS core standards for intensive care units guideline
N Fahmy, C Iwegbu , C Barrot, GPS Bawa
58. Time for admission to intensive care: audit of practice against ICS core standards for intensive care units guideline
N Fahmy, C Barrot, C Iwegbu, GPS Bawa
59. Obstetric intensive care admissions to a Scottish tertiary referral centre: a five-year review
O Robinson, M Beatty, A Wise
60. The impact of being an obstetric and intensive care tertiary referral centre
O Robinson, M Beatty, A Wise
61. One-year outcome of intensive care patients with chronic liver disease, including possible prognostic factors
O Oxenham, A Kuravi, W Malein
62. Developing and implementing an intensive care unit airway alert
P Austin, S Cole
63. Quality indicators in Scotland: developing and implementing a family experience survey
P Austin, S Crofts, S Cole
64. Documentation of ceilings of care in the intensive care unit
P Shepherd, P Alexander
65. Tracheostomy training for foundation doctors
PD Frank, J Sharpley
66. Improving the patient journey of unscheduled ward admissions to the intensive care unit
PS Parulekar, E Bodenham, V Halai, V Brown, P Anderson
67. Audit on the use of ideal body weight in calculating lung protective tidal volumes
RK Basra, G Packer, C Bassford
68. Improving the safety of airway management for intensive care patients across the Greater Manchester region
R Frank, R Hine, L Bates, on behalf of Greater Manchester Critical Care Network RICON Airway group
69. Factors associated with 180-day mortality in patients with non-haematological malignancy admitted to ICU
R Fisher, L Starsmore, C Dangoisse, T Manickavasagar, S McGrath, F Chatterjee, C Whiteley, S Crichton, M Ostermann
70. Difficult airway management on the intensive care unit – a multidisciplinary approach to improving patient safety
R Briscoe, D Fabbroni, J Horn, S Hale
71. Electrode placement for five-lead electrocardiogram monitoring
R Harris, R Wenstone, L Poole
72. An audit into end-of-life care in a district general intensive care unit
R Loveridge, A Goodwin, S Surapaneni
73. Improving antimicrobial stewardship in intensive care: the impact of introducing procalcitonin testing in two district general hospital intensive care units
C Williams, T Woodward, C Brookes, N Patel, P Moore, R Orme
74. Chest X-ray interpretation in UK intensive care units: a 2014 survey
R Spiritoso, T Pirani, S Patel, J Martin, S Singh
75. Acute kidney injury diagnostic alerts and outcomes of patients presenting to the emergency department
R Haines, L Oliver, C Kirwan, K Ahmad, J Prowle
76. Platypnoea orthodeoxia syndrome: a case of postoperative hypoxaemia
S Scott, M Wayman
77. Six-year audit of outcome of patients with haematological malignancy admitted to intensive care
S Taylor, M Singh, I Grant, K Raveendran
78. A review of tracheostomy practice in a teaching hospital intensive care unit
L Poole, L Bethell, A Roberts, S Harwood
79. Lipid emulsion therapy: successful use in complex non-local anaesthetic drug overdose
S Kabadayi, S Flood, P Jackson, A Padmakumar
80. Iatrogenic blood loss in intensive care units – a pervasive problem
S Karmali, M Raza, D Walker
81. Prophylactic plasma and platelet transfusions before interventional radiological procedures: an audit and national survey (abstract not available)
SP Hibbs, S McKechnie, MW Little, R Uberoi, M Desborough
82. An audit of acute respiratory distress syndrome across the Greater Manchester Critical Care Network
S Knight, R Frank, T Thomas
83. Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates as a quality indicator – can current scoring systems be used?
S Shuttleworth, N Wee, H Reschreiter
84. A standardised form for interhospital patient transfer
TEP Blanks, M Daunt, A Feerick, A Wolverson
85. Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything; a technical evaluation of the Gem Premier 4000 blood gas analyser
T Pratt, J Davies, J Cranshaw
86. Case presentation – peripartum cardiomyopathy requiring ECMO
TG Martindale, M Jonas
87. Echocardiography in a general intensive care unit – a service evaluation
T Greenway, J Glen, S Bruemmer-Smith
88. Utilisation of intensive care unit services in the management of parturients with grown-up congenital heart disease
TAC Snow, D Walker, F Walker
89. Grown-up congenital heart disease intensive care admissions; an eight-year experience
TAC Snow, D Walker, F Walker
90. Weight and height inaccuracies in intensive care
TC Thomas, S McKechnie
91. Implementing red cell transfusion guidelines in critically ill patients
VJ Page, SM Chan, A Casarin, H Payne, S Bradley
92. Comparison of the National Early Warning Score with a local Early Warning Score, in acute burns patients, in a UK regional burns unit
V Marsh, JM Handy, A Blay
93. Dexmedetomidine in ICU: right drug for the right patient?
V Peacock, A Padmakumar, L Langton
94. Early antibiotics in post cardiac arrest patients
V Paul, K Shuker, A Morgan, A Temple
95. Inadvertent hyperthermia in traumatic brain injury
L Van Turenhout, V Sathianathan, C Gomez
96. Management of patients with traumatic brain injury and an abbreviated injury score of 3 or greater at a district general hospital; January to December 2012
W Allan, I Blaskovics, H Madder, C Sweasey, F Jeddi, J Sheehan, A McAndrew, R De Caux, L Keating
97. The association between mortality and intensive care unit length of stay for surgical admissions (abstract not available)
M Hameed, M Maruthappu, DC Marshall, J Salciccioli, J Shalhoub
98. iCoughUKTM – reducing postoperative pulmonary complications
M Moatari, H Owen, J Lewis, D Atkinson, J Boorman, D Cummings, D Conway, P Rosenkranz, K McCabe, J Moore
99. Nurse satisfaction with a continuous cuff pressure control device
N Smith, V Martinson, L Sleight, R Bennett
100. Citrate anticoagulation in continuous renal replacement therapy – a service evaluation
A Mizen, C Swanevelder, H Gilbrook, R Fenton, S Hart, C Burbridge, K Charlton, M Hall, C Bolwell
101. Is the FIM+FAM a useful outcome measure in long-term intensive care follow-up?
G Pound, C Purkiss, S Cooke
102. Night discharges from intensive care unit: Trends and impact on readmission and mortality rate (abstract not available)
M Michael
103. Critical analysis of cardiac arrests: going beyond outcomes
L Barker, J Kinnear, G Donohue, D Higgin
