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Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS)

Time slot
Wednesday 13 May 2026 - 10:45-13:00
Room
Hall 9
Session type
Specialty group session

Programme

Frontiers in Paediatric Critical Care.

10:50 - 11:20 Paediatric pandemic planning. Dr Ruchi Sinha, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, St Mary's Hospital.

11:40 - 12:10 Diagnosis and prognostication in traumatic brain injury. Dr David McCormick, Consultant Paediatrician, Neurorehabilitation and Epilepsy, Kings College Hospital London.

12:30 - 13:00 From neonates to critical care children: Optimising the NICU-to-PICU transition. Rum Thomas, Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

Abstracts

  • Early prediction and personalised therapy in neonatal sepsis: Feasibility of a precision medicine approach
  • Protocolised POCUS in Paediatric Retrieval: Feasibility, Findings, and Clinical Impact in Intubated Children
  • Audit of documentation, escalation and response to deterioration prior to unplanned critical care admissions at a tertiary paediatric hospital 2023/24.
  • COMFORT B score compliance in a level 3 PICU-A retrospective audit. 

Speakers

  • Dr Ajay Desai - Consultant, Royal Brompton
  • Dr David McCormick - Consultant, King's College Hospital
  • Dr Rum Thomas - Consultant, Sheffield Children's Hospital 
  • Dr Ruchi Sinha - Consultant, St Mary's Hospital
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