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kNOWLEDGe
North West Learning and Development Group
We all know that excellent practice initiatives happen commonly around the North West, however they often are not dispersed regionally and this tends to lead to people reinventing the wheel. Intensive Care Units within the North West via ANWICU could view this as excellent opportunity to work together and adopt quality initiatives in the areas of large scale audit, clinical guidelines and hopefully research.
This scheme will be facilitated through each unit having it’s own linkman consultant whose role would be to present the initiative to the individual ICUs and then hopefully facilitate the introduction of the adopted project. Of course individual units would be free to scrutinise projects and ultimately could decline a particular project. There remains however a lot of power in a region-wide approach to a particular problem with a region led solution. Hopefully most people will find this approach helpful and appropriate. New projects will be planned to be introduced on a 12-18 monthly basis.
We have developed a new JOURNAL CLUB resource for trainees sitting ICM exams, or anyone else who wants a quick update of some key papers. Click the link to find out more!
Click here for explanatory letter to ANWICU members. Contact kNOWLEDGe@anwicu.co.uk (Dr John Moore, CMFT)
The 2 project identified so far are the Tracheostomy Safety Project and the
Regional Cooling post cardiac arest Audit. Please click on the images below
to get further details of the initiatives. Both projects have published in 2012
in JICS and Anaesthesia.
ANWICU is currently running a critical incident review project for 2011/12 led by Dr Tony Thomas for SRFT in conjunction with the NPSA, ICNARC and ICS. Click here for further details.
ANWICU's Cooling Project | Tracheostomy Safety Project | ANWICUs Critical Incident Project
(email) cooling@anwicu.co.uk | tracheostomy@anwicu.co.uk.....
These 2 projects have been running since the ANWICU Lakes meeting 2010. The kNOWLEDGe group met in December in Manchester and progress updates and reports on the projects can be found by clicking the links below...
ANWICU cooling project update (Dec 2010)
ANWICU tracheosotmy project update (Dec 2010)