Luke Flower

🌈This Pride Month, we sat down with @lukeflower.bsky.social proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, to hear his story.

At the VPD-HLRI, we’re proud to celebrate voices like Luke’s and to stand for inclusion, visibility, and equality every day of the year. 🏳️‍🌈
#PrideMonth #Pride2025

Kicking off the @atscommunity.bsky.social conference with some great news!
Congratulations on the award @lukeflower.bsky.social and enjoy representing us in San Francisco!
#ATS2025

📣 Apply for the TRIC National Trainee Project Competition - open for ICM interested resident doctors📣

Share your work at SOA25 with the winner becoming their next national project for 2025/2026.

Apply before April 30th and find out more below👇

bit.ly/TRIC2025

Longer term post-hospital morbidity and mortality following admission with Covid-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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@charlottesummers.bsky.social @mark-toshner.bsky.social @lukeflower.bsky.social

🔓 Our open-access review on inflammasomes in ARDS

🏥 ARDS treatments are limited

🫁 Multiple inflammasomes drive ARDS via IL-1β/18

💊 Their modulation offers potential therapies

🔬Further human-specific research is needed

@charlottesummers.bsky.social
@vpd-hlri.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/mt76tcan

Photo of Dr Luke Flower in Westminster having received his Kathleen Ferguson Award from the Association of Anaesthetist.

@lukeflower.bsky.social, a PhD student @vpd-hlri.bsky.social & @selwyn1882.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social, has received the Kathleen Ferguson Award from @assocanaes.bsky.social in recognition of his sustained contribution to improving understanding of the healthcare of transgender patients 👏👏

The provision of echocardiography in critical care: a multi-centre survey of the UK and Crown Dependencies - Intensive Care Medicine Intensive Care Medicine -

The final TRIC Network NEAT-ECHO paper has been published! A summary:

🏥 179 ICUs

📡 96% of teams had an echo accredited clinician

👩‍🏫 89% had an approved mentor

✅ 95% felt positively about echo in ICU

🖥️ 33% had imagine storage systems

🫀15% had 24/7 echo access

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The winter edition of FICM’s Resident Eye is out!

If you’re looking for some light pre-Christmas reading, I wrote a short article on the importance of research in ICM and how intensivists in training can get involved.

ficm.ac.uk/resident-eye

Obituary: Luciano Gattinoni - ESICM In Memory of Professor Luciano Gattinoni

A sad day for critical care - and what a phenomenal legacy he has left us.

RIP Prof Gattinoni, a Giant ⚕️📟

www.esicm.org/obituary-luc...

Thoroughly enjoyed coaching my first class for Cambridge University’s mixed martial arts team today.

Martial arts have had such a positive impact on my life, teaching me so much along the way. It’s a privilege to pass that on to the next generation of martial artists (& help win varsity of course).

A fascinating evening at @selwyn1882.bsky.social listening to Dame Sally Davies discuss the escalating global threat of antimicrobial resistance.

Collaboration from governments, industries, clinicians, patients & agriculture is essential to combat this silent pandemic.

Happy LGBTQ+ in STEM day!

I’m lucky to work in a very supportive institute, but many aren’t. The stats:

- 57% higher risk of burn out in clinical academics

- 50% consider leaving due to discrimination

- 33% advised not to come out

- 10% less students stay in STEM

Much still to do! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Hi all, I’m late to the intro party.

I’m an ICM reg in London & PhD student at Cambridge. My clinical interests centre around immune dysfunction in ARDS, shock, education & EDI.

Outside of work I’m a long suffering martial artist & canine enthusiast.

I look forward to connecting with y’all!

I’d love to be added if there’s room for one more!