SICOWE

🏆 This year’s prize winners:
- Emma Wickman: Colin Hall prize
- Martin Winstanley: SICOWE prize
- Emma Bailey: Guy Jordan prize
- Felicity Cantley: Critical review prize
- Ann Biju: Poster prize

📈 Our final speaker for 2026 is Professor Bronwen Connolly on changing and shaping patient care through research.

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🌄 New frontiers in tracheostomy care with Paul Twose. Get yourself a trache team!

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📋 Professor David McWilliams gives an overview of the NCEPOD report on Rehabilitation following critical illness.

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🤩 Our esteemed judging panel for the ‘What’s new for you?’ session: Bronwen Connelly, Rachel Proust and Aggie Skorko

Winner to be announced shortly!

Special thanks to our sponsors this year, without whom sicowe could not happen.

We’ve got some fantastic trade stands to visit and get some in depth information about the latest products and innovations!

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🫁 Emergent properties in lung physiology in bronchoconstriction and personalising ventilation settings with Dr Tom Clements is our final review talk

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🍻 Very timely on the morning of day 2 of the conference: Dr Chris Thorne talks about managing intoxication

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💪 Our second challenger is Jemma Smith from UHBW presenting on frailty

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9️⃣0️⃣ Professor David Harrison talks about the UK-ROX and EXAKT trials

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🫁 Professor Bronwen Connelly gives us a fascinating update from the MARCH trial

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First up this morning Dr Matt Wise talks about the reality of performing clinical trials

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Our keynote speaker this year is Prof Marlies Ostermann with Renal Replacement Therapy: What’s Topical?

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🤖 Clinician use of AI by Martin Winstanley with a presentation he definitely wrote himself

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🫁 Physiotherapy led APRV for lung recruitment with Emma Wickman

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🦵 Amy Arnold, Colette Walton and Rory Spence talk us through their work on post-ICU rehabilitation and working towards meeting CG183 targets

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♻️ Go green and save your unit £59k per year with Anna Karpenko and Elisa Vettori

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🧐 Our formidable 2026 judging panel…
Graham Brant
Rachel Prout
Becca Pope

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🦴 Zara Coombes asks how much calcium should patients receiving pre-hospital blood transfusions get?

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⭐️ Jen Nash and Sam Overton describe RUH’s band 6 training course. If you can get through the simulation shift you can deal with anything!

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☕️ Emma Bailey presents an SLT project simplifying swallowing assessment. Dysphagia might not be funny but Emma definitely is!

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🗞️ This afternoon is the ever popular Free Papers session!

🧠 First up is Dr Maria Aparicio talking about CNS infection in the South West

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🩸Our final speaker this morning is Maria Mazza explaining the integration of palliative care within the CAR T programme

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🚗 CAR T-cell therapy update from Dr Rachel Protheroe at the start of Session 2

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Stroke survivor Vincent Povey gives us an insight into his experience, accompanied by occupational therapist Sharon Ward who was instrumental in his recovery.

We’re very grateful for the support of the Stroke Association in facilitating this session

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☢️ Dr Alex Mortimer gives us an overview of Stroke Thrombectomy

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🧠 Our first speaker is Dr Clare Holmes talking about posterior circulation stroke

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💪 NBT Physios ready for SICOWE 2026

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🎉 SICOWE 2026 is this week!

🎓 We’ve got some inspiring speakers, great educational sessions and updates from the fantastic QI and research work ongoing in the region

👋 See you all soon!

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🗓️ SICOWE 2026 is just around the corner

🔔 January 22-23 in Delta Hotels St. Pierre Country Club in Chepstow

🗣️ We’ve got some fantastic speakers and a packed schedule

📲 Tickets still available sicowe.org.uk

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