Join us for our study day on the acute Ischaemic Stroke Pathway next week!
Exploring stroke mimics, neuromonitoring and AI application in MT identification, you will gain the advantage in critical decision making.
Book now for an expert breakdown on the stroke pathway.
bit.ly/acutestrokepathway
There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news.
But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials.
Keep funding science!
Beyond the PaO2/FiO2 ratio: Rethinking ARDS severity through the Lens of physiology
CCR Journal Watch
criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-...
SICS offer a number of grants and bursaries, including
🎓 Post Graduate Bursary
🧑🏼⚕️ Nursing and AHP Bursary
🚅 Travel Grant
Be the first to know when these grants and bursaries open by visiting the SICS website 🔗 www.scottishintensiv...
#IntensiveCare #IntensiveCareSociety
A new study investigated whether physical injury leads to chemical changes in our DNA – specifically through a process called DNA methylation – in a bid to identify those people most at risk of developing mental health issues after a trauma 👉 edin.ac/4sR43iN
@cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social
We're thrilled to have a new study coming up soon..
PANTHER - Precision medicine Adaptive Network platform Trial in Hypoxemic acutE failuRe
Keep an eye out on here for more details 👀
#criticalcare #criticalresearch
JAMA viewpoint article "The First AI Drug Prescriber" by Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD@1 and Christopher Robertson, JD, PhD@2. Published online April 13, 2026. doi: 10.1001/jama.2026.3533.
💬 Viewpoint: Utah authorized the first autonomous #AI drug prescriber for nearly 200 medications, bypassing physician oversight and FDA review, raising questions about safety and regulatory gaps.
ja.ma/4cGSoxO
Our Congress isn’t just a conference – it’s an investment in your future.
From networking & CPD to exploring new roles, & engaging with the latest issues and developments in nursing,
Learn how joining us in Liverpool next month will help take your career to the next level: https://bit.ly/4t8CRg3
New research study at IRR in Edinburgh
PINGO - healthy volunteers needed to improve patient care
Link below
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What do you do when you're an unstoppable research nurse?
Well you climb 27,247 ft in snow and ice up a Himalayan mountain of course!!
Yup one of our own has returned triumphant after climbing Mera Peak. What an achievement 🥇
We'll post photos and details once she's rested 🛌
#researchnurses
Forget NASA! 🌍
We're flying high this week 🚀 - screening and talking to our patients and their families, liaising with researchers and our PPIE group, wrapping up some studies and opening others..
Phew!!
#criticalcare #criticalresearch
Research into Traumatic Brain Injury - the impact and treatment is happening here in Edinburgh. We're working hard on 2 new studies
TOP-TBI and TBI Reporter (3P)
👀 for more details coming here soon!
#criticalcare #criticalresearch #TBI
The exhibition on the Mound aglow in the night time lighting.
Workers building the exhibition
Tourists viewing the exhibition on The Mound.
The days are getting longer and it is the perfect time to visit the 300 Faces of Edinburgh Medical School exhibition 🌞
You will see some familiar faces from across IRR represented in this exhibition, so make sure you catch it while it is on display!
Learn more about the exhibition: edin.ac/3PF7v1Y
Love a cor blimey every now and again!
A study recently opened at RIE is MAP-ALF that aims to look at the immune response to Acute Liver Failure and compare over/active genes in blood sample from ALF patients with sepsis patients.
We'll keep you posted!
#criticalcare #criticalresearch
Today's Paper of the Day is:
Evolving Management Practices for Early Sepsis-induced Hypoperfusion: A Narrative Review
criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of...
Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2026
Awards and grants are offered by SICS each year to the value of £3000 each to cover reasonable costs. Keep an eye out for the 2025 awards launching later this year ➡️ www.scottishintensiv...
#IntensiveCare #IntensiveCareSociety
Join CPOC as Board Chair
Could you be our Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) next Board Chair?
If you’re passionate about improving patient care and leading change, we want to hear from you!
Learn more and apply by April 12👉 https://ow.ly/q7PW50Yp1AM
#Ansky #Medsky
Marcin Maniak, IRR PhD student, is delivering a hands-on workshop at this year's Edinburgh Science Festival. Put on your lab coat and experiment with immune cells as they stick, squeeze, and slurp their way to defeat infections! Suitable for Ages 7+.
Book: edin.ac/3PIhZNZ
Cor Blimey! We've only gone and recruited another wonderful participant to the Result Hip Study. That makes this our:
9️⃣3️⃣rd!!
Thank you to everyone who made this happen 😍
#criticalcare #criticalresearch
Give us a thumbs up 👍👍 if you're still tuning in!
Our short absence has been all about lots of studies, babies and broken bones - so give us a shout 📢 and say hello again!!
Let's kick this off with a BIG...
After a bit of a hiatus...
WE'RE BACK!!!!!
Keep a lookout 👀 for all our news about new studies we're involved in, what's happening with the team and what our PPI-ers are up to.
Are you working in:
Intensive care medicine
Anaesthesia
Emergency Medicine
Acute Medical Specialist?
Edinburgh Critical Care Research Methods - 2 day course 1-2 December, Usher Building, Uni of Edinburgh
Book your place - don't miss out!
edin.ac/4ekTM21
#criticalcare
#criticalresearch
Morning researchers!
How's it going this fine Monday morning?
Our wonderful team now have 3 great patients enrolled onto the Intact-2 study.
Great work everyone who was involved in making this such a good start to the study 🎉
#riecriticalcare
#intact2
#criticalcare
#criticalresearch
🌿 Sunday Spotlight!
Did you know our BACCN Video Series is now available on YouTube? 🎥✨
👉 Subscribe to our channel and tap the 🔔 notification bell to stay updated when new videos drop! 👉 youtube.com/@niccjournal...
#CriticalCareNursing #NurseEducation #YouTubeSeries @BACCNUK
Promotional banner for NHS Researcher Development Fellowship by Chief Scientist Office, featuring two healthcare professionals smiling and conversing, with details about the fellowship and a deadline posted as 17 December. Additional link to read more at www.cso.scot.nhs.uk. Text reads: "The NHS Researcher Development Fellowship is an introductory fellowship aimed at NHS employees currently working as a Nurse, Midwife, Allied Health Professional, Pharmacist, Healthcare Scientist or other in a clinical role to enable them to explore research as part of their existing NHS role."
Applications are now open for the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government's NHS Researcher Development Fellowship.
The closing date for applications is midday on Wednesday 17 December 🔗 www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-funding/csonh...
Image of first page of ECCRG Research News
Keep an eye out for our September Newsletter in Royal Infirmary Edinburgh's critical care and research staff areas.
Keep up to date with what's happening in critical care research and the team.
Here we are channelling our Chanel... see what we did there...
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Green advertisement card. Info includes: Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group (SALG) Patient Safety Conference 12 November 2025, Online Logos include: SALG, RCoA, Association of Anaesthetists and NHS
Save the date 📆
The SALG Patient Safety Conference is coming up!
This year’s themes are👇
➡️Local Anaesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)
➡️Rapid Sequence Induction (RSI)
➡️Plus poster competition for anaesthetists in training
Book👉 ow.ly/YAvo50WXl9v
#Ansky #Medsky
JAMA cover, published online October 13, 2025. "AI, Health, and Health Care Today and Tomorrow: The JAMA Summit Report on Artificial Intelligence." Features a blue cross with 'AI' inside a golden circle, set against a circuit board design with medical icons.
Last year's Summit joined together 50+ thought leaders with expertise on how #AI is developed, evaluated, regulated, and implemented across clinical health care domains.
As a result, the JAMA Summit Report explores the state of AI in medicine: ja.ma/46JX4QN
Today's Paper of the Day is:
Transfusion in trauma: empiric or guided therapy?
criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of...
Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025
