SICS Events
Sadly, with the issues that COVID 19 is causing accross the globe, it will not be possible to host an Annual Scientific Meeting in 2021. We will update you on the next meeting ASAP
The 29th SICS Annual Scientific Meeting, January 2020
The 29th Scottish Intensive Care Society ASM took place on the 23rd and 24th of January at the Fairmont Hotel in St Andrews. It was a fantastic few days with great talks from our international faculty (including Kathryn Maitland, Niall Fergusson, Kevin Fong, Chris Turner, Alison Jones, Matthieu Komorowski, Paul Frost and many more) covering a broad range of critical care topics. The programme below has more info. The meet the professor sessions and parallel streams were very popular and the evening Burns dinner and Ceilidh kept everyone chatting and partying in to the late hours. Much fun was had!
ASM photos
Please click on the image below to see some of the highlights of the fantastic 29th ASM.
SICS ASM 2020 Abstract Booklet
SICS ASM 2020 Music quiz answers
Feedback for the meeting and certificate of attendance
For all those who attended the ASM please complete your feedback through the link below:
https://edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sics-2020
Once you have completed the feedback form you will be able to print your certificate. The link has been re-opened and will available until the end of March.
SICS education meeting
Apex hotel, Grassmarket, Edinburgh
The annual SICS education meeting ran on the 9th of September and we had a fantastic day. Loads of great talks including covering malignancy in critical illness, early mobilisation in ICU, regional anaesthesia techniques in critical care, challenging paediatric critical care cases, the management of hypertension in ICU, a review of the evidence from 2019 and lots more. Both the medical student essay prize and the trainee case presentation prizes were hotly contested and the standard was excellent. Thank you everyone who attended and look forward to seeing you next year.
Photo gallery of previous meetings:
The 28th SICS Annual Scientific Meeting, January 2019
The 27th SICS Annual Scientific Meeting, January 2018
Networking
Gordon Rubenfeld
Rinaldo Bellomo
El Presidentes
Marius Terblanche
Kathryn Puxty
The SICS Principles of Intensive Care Training (PICT) Courses
This one-day simulation-based course, which is suitable for FY2, Year 1/2 ACCS and CT 1/2 trainees in acute specialties, ACCPs and experienced ICU or HDU nurses, is designed to help you to recognise, assess and manage acutely ill adults who require critical care.
Topics covered in the course include:
- Assessment and initial management of the critically ill adult
- Emergency airway management
- Respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation
- Shock, invasive monitoring and circulatory support
- Acute brain injury
- Severe sepsis and septic shock
- Clinical human factors
- Team working and communication
- Clinical decision making
- Critical events in the ventilated patient
The course is held in the Scottish Clinical Simulation Centre in Forth Valley Royal Hospital.
For more information and to book see https://scschf.org/courses/
