Publications from Professional bodies

Publications

Within Critical Care, there are resources including guidelines and standards that critical care professionals use to guide and support the delivery of evidenced based quality care. Below are some of the publications relevant to units within the Network from Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, British Association of Critical Care Nurses and The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.  

Guidelines

Atrial Fibrillation

Acute kidney injury

ARDS guideline

Blood transfusion

Care of dying adults

Covid-19-critical care in adults

Delirium

ICS Deprivation of Liberty Resource

Devastating brain injury

Eye care for ventilated patients

Head Injury

Nutritional support

Standards and Safety

AHP developmental framework

CC3N Best practices for movement of staff from Critical care areas

Enhanced care

Guidance on caring for the sickest patients in the hospital

Guideline for the Provision of Intensive care services 2.1

ICU checklists for common ICU procedures

Life after critical illness

National Early warning score (NEWS) 2

National framework to care for Out of Hospital cardiac arrest in England

Provision of adult critical care services specification(NHSE)

Resource on proning in Adult critical care

Resource on Repatriating critically ill patients

Transfer of the critically ill adult

Wellbeing in Critical care