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Ubuntu - Growing curiosity together in research is something I cherish within PICU. #PCCS2025 highlights this - @donnaaust1n.bsky.social and I won a grant, @manishak.bsky.social won a poster prize for our team’s PANDA-PIC and my BSc fellow Maram won a prize for #pedsicu fluid management ⭐️👏🏽

Free chickenpox vaccination offered for first time to children A free chickenpox vaccination will be offered for the first time to children across England on the NHS from January.

📰 A free chickenpox vaccination will be offered for first time to children across England on the NHS from January 2026.

🔗 press release: www.gov.uk/government/n...

🔗 Scientists comments to @smclondon.bsky.social: www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...

#IDSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth 🧪

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Do you have background in health services research and want to work on studies improving the quality & safety of patient care? We’re looking for researcher to support an exciting & innovative multi-project collaborative research programme. Learn more and apply here ths.im/3HUk5GS

@donnaaust1n.bsky.social

Interested in how visiting relatives in #ICU or #PICU impacts children?

Come along to the #Siblings in #PedsICU Research Interest Group to hear A/Prof Giulia Lamiani discuss her recent study findings & share tips for support!

Date: Aug 18th @ 5:30pm AEST

Find out more: a.butler@latrobe.edu.au

Amazing!

Cryptogenic cerebral palsy - can there be genetic underpinnings?

Yes! Based on this study of looking at WES for patients with cryptogenic CP, the yield is upto 50%!

Read more - buff.ly/q7AXG1G

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Warning ‼️

The #pccs2025 conference early bird window closes in 2 weeks.

If you want to get your tickets at the discounted rate make sure to book before the window ends on 1st August.

Follow the link below to book

www.pccsbelfast25.com

#pedsicu #giantsteps

"There is no doubt that the lessons that I've learned here as an editorial fellow will stay with me throughout my career." Ramya Ramaswami, MBBS, MPH 2016–2017 NEJM editorial fellow

Would you like to participate in the editorial activities of the world’s leading medical journal? NEJM is accepting applications for the 2026–2027 NEJM editorial fellowship. Several fellows will be selected; applications are due by Friday, August 1, 2025. Learn more: nej.md/3cCQajB

Intravenous Rehydration for Severe Acute Malnutrition with Gastroenteritis | NEJM International recommendations advise against the use of intravenous rehydration therapy in children with severe acute malnutrition because of the concern about fluid overload, but evidence to suppo...

Kathryn Maitland really does do the best studies. Bravo. Intravenous Rehydration for Severe Acute Malnutrition with Gastroenteritis | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 Background: Aluminum is used as an adjuvant in nonlive vaccines administered in early childhood. Concerns persist about potential associations between vaccination with aluminum-adsorbed vaccines and i...

🧪 A major new study out today in Annals of Internal Medicine found no link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and chronic health conditions.

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Intravenous Bronchodilators in Pediatric Critical Asthma: A Systematic Review and Network Meta‐Analysis #PedsICU @palisinet.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Using Advanced Imaging in Cardiology Learn how we use technology to improve care for heart patients.

Playing video games or finding better ways to read 3D echocardiograms? Learn how using VR, XR and 3DE can help provide more accurate diagnoses. #CardioSky #VirtualReality #PedsCardiology

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

#PedsICU

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Adjustment of positive end-expiratory pressure based on body mass index during general anaesthesia: a randomised controlled trial

#AnSky

doi.org/10.1111/anae...

@emmaaaaa8.bsky.social has been incredible at #ESPNIC2025 presenting AI, transport, liver, extubation failure and EU distributions of PICU. Amazing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Excited for #PCCSCCI25 day in Oxford.

A day focused on advancing care for children with complex critical illness in PICU with fantastic speakers and minds coming together - thank you all! @sarahseaton.bsky.social @donnaaust1n.bsky.social @tim-van-hasselt.bsky.social @lornafraserclay.bsky.social

How can childhood health inequalities be reduced by improving indoor home environments in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland? - Collaboratory Research Hub Collaboratory 2025 PhD Project Download PDF Key Details Project Title: How can childhood health inequalities be reduced by improving indoor home environments in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland?...

📣 PhD opportunity 📣
Want to do a PhD exploring how children’s home environments interact with their health? Take a look, I hear the supervisors are great #PedsICU #PhDChat ufncollaboratory.ac.uk/improving-th...

Hypotension and Shock. Optimising treatments

A new single centre RCT of permissive hypotension (PH) compared to "standard treatment" (ST) of very preterm infants 24 to

The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life

I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit.

Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Bleeding definitions in studies on neonates & children in #ECMO, SR/MA
🔍 extensive heterogeneity: 69 definitions identified; intracranial hemorrhage + ELSO most common
Urgent need for developing & adopt more unified/objective definition of bleeding in #ECLS highlighted. #PedsICU
🖇️ bit.ly/3FmqJ7A

Listening to experts in #PedsICU research on Qualitative research, focused research qs., retrospective data analysis, how to write a paper, referencing - Brilliant! #PCCSSG2025

Looking forward to listening to amazing research ideas across the UK for #PedsICU for the next 2 days! @pccsociety.bsky.social #PCCSSG2025

Fully funded PhD opportunity @universityofleeds.bsky.social
School of Healthcare with me @janekohara.bsky.social & @drjohnabaker.bsky.social within @yhpsrc.bsky.social

🔹Understanding and evaluating restorative approaches in response to patient safety incidents🔹

⌛️ Closing date: 22nd May👇

GO GOSH ! Optimising intravenous salbutamol in children: a
phase 2 study Walsh S, Pan S, Sheng Y, et al. Arch Dis Child
2022;108:316–322.

We proudly welcome Prof. Joseph Manning as the newly elected Nursing President of #ESPNIC!

Congratulations! 💫

#CriticalCare #CriticalCareNurses #ScientificLeadership #PedsICU #NICU

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#EPNV day 2, Stress, Strain, is it all a bit Sili? Listening to amazing experts in the field #pedsicu

Join the #SCCM Respiratory Care Section Journal Club w/ Dr. Ben White on AARC and #PALISI Critical Pediatric #Asthma Clinical Practice Guideline May 28, 2pm Eastern

Register here: duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#SocietyCriticalCareMedicine @palisinet.bsky.social

It's #PICU Awareness Week! 🩺
ESPNIC is mapping paediatric #IntensiveCare across Europe — and we need your input!

✅ 1 response per PICU, ideally from a senior clinician.
🔗 2-minute survey: bit.ly/4iMgkjd

#PICUAwarenessWeek #ESPNIC #PedsICU #CriticalCare #WPAW25