• BACCN, British Association of Critical Care Nurses

• British Thoracic Society

• CESAR Trial: The UK clinical trial comparing the use of conventional ventilation with ECMO for treatment of severe acute respiratory failure in adults.

• Critical Care Forum

• Department of Health's Critical Care strategy

• East Anglian Intensive Care Group

• Intensive Care Society (UK)

• Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care Medicine (IBTICM)

• Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, ICNARC

• Medical Economics and Research Centre, MERCS

• National Health Service

[On 1 April 2002, the NHS underwent one of its regular reorganisations; Health Authorities and the NHS Regional Offices ceased to function and their role was taken over by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Strategic Health Authorities and Regional Government Offices.]  

• Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ICU

• Scottish Intensive Care Society

• Welsh Intensive Care Society

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National (UK) Documents

• Links to the Department of Health's Critical Care strategy and relevant documents such as:

•      Comprehensive Critical Care. Review of adult critical care services (published in May 2000); 

•     The Nursing Contribution to the provision of Comprehensive Critical Care for Adults: A Strategic Programme of Action (Dec 2001);

•     The Critical Care Minimum Data Set (CCMDS) (various dates);

•     Quality Critical Care: Beyond 'Comprehensive Critical Care': A report by the Critical Care Stakeholder Forum (Oct 2005);

•     The National Education and Competence Framework for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (July 2006);

•     Critical care team competencies report (May 2006);

•     Developing team competencies for patient-centred critical care services (in progress);

•     The Critical Care Information Strategy (Oct 2002);

•     The recruitment and retention of staff in critical care (June 2004).

Note: the URLs to Department of Health documents seem to change frequently and you are often better off searching for them using Google rather than through the DH's own search engine.

National (UK)  Meetings

• Please notify the Webmaster of any meetings you would like included here.

• The Royal Oldham Hospital 6^th Annual Critical Care Symposium, Ramada Piccadilly Hotel, Portland Street, Manchester, M1 4PH, UK 23--24 April 2009.

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Links to International (non-UK) sites

• ACCRI: A vast quantity of information about all sorts of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care resources on the Internet can be found at Mr. A J Wright's site: Anesthesia and Critical Care Resources on the Internet

• ARDSNet

• American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)

• American College of Chest Physicians

• American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists

• American Thoracic Society (ATS)

• AnestCadiz (Andalusian Website of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Treatment)

• Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira

• Asociacion Mexicana de Medicina Critica y Terapia Intensiva (AMMCTI)

• Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of the Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

• Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS)

• Australian College of Critical Care Nurses

• Belgische Vereniging voor Intensieve Geneeskunde [la Société belge de Médecine Intensive]

• Canadian Critical Care Society

• Ceska spolecnost anesteziologie, resuscitace a intenzivni mediciny

• CCM-L: Critical Care Medicine List

• Critical Care Society of Southern Africa

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin

• Deutsche Interdisziplinäre Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin

• European Respiratory Society (ERS)

• European Resuscitation Council (ERC)

• European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, (ESICM)

• European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) 

• Hong Kong Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Intensivecare.com

• Intensive Care Society of Ireland, (ICSI)

• Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System

• Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

• International Sepsis Forum (ISF)

• Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine 

• Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Magyar Aneszteziológiai és Intenzív Terápiás Társaság

• Medline-plus information on Critical Care

• National Initiative in Sepsis Education

• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Intensive Care

• Neurocritical Care Society

• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Internistische und Allgemeine Intensivmedizin (ÖEGIAIM)

• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Anaesthesiologie, Reanimation und Intensivmedizin (ÖEGARI)

• Puerto Rican Critical Care Society

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Intensivmedizin/Société Suisse De Medecine Intensive/Società Svizzera Di Medicina Intensiva (SSMI)

• Slovenian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

• Slovenská spoloènost anestéziológie a intenzívnej medicíny

• Sociedad Argentina De Terapia Intensiva

• Sociedad Chilena de Medicina Intensiva

• Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva, Critica Y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC)

• Sociedade Portuguesa de Cuidados Intensivos (SPCI)

• Sociedad Venezolana de Medicina Crítica

• La Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF)

• La Société belge de Médecine Intensive [Belgische Vereniging voor Intensieve Geneeskunde]

• Société Française d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation (SFAR)

• Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)

• World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

Page last updated: Tuesday, 18 November 2008

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