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The primary objective of the study is to assess the rate of frequent information (more than 50% of cases) received by the relatives of adult surgical patients during the surgery.The secondary objective is to assess the determinants of frequent information provided by anaesthesiologists to relatives of adult surgical patients during the surgery.Steering Committee members:
We call on all Intensive Care physicians and anaesthesiologists. It is expected to have a low rate of frequent information (more than 50% of cases during surgery) of relatives of adult surgical patients by anesthesiologists. This ESICM APM Section initiative survey has been endorsed by ESICM. It should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
Central venous catheters, the anaesthetist´s and intensivist´s choice of Insertion site and use of ultrasound. The purpose of this study is to describe central venous catheter placement patterns in Europe and possible differences between levels of training, hospital type, regions and countries. We also wish to describe the physician’s choice of placement site, including placement of multiple catheters and the use of ultrasound for insertion and position control. The participation in the study is confidential and the result will be presented on a group level to assure integrity.Steering Committee:
Anna Bandert
Antoine Schneider
Miklós Lipcsey
Sten Rubertsson
Robert Frithiof
Ing-Marie Larsson
Ewa Wallin
David Smekal
Contact: Anna Bandert, anna.bandert@uu.se Department of Surgical Science and Centre for Research and Development, Uppsala University/ Region Gävleborg, Sweden.Participate
This survey has been endorsed by ESICM. We call on all intensivists and anaesthetists who place central venous catheters. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. Complete the survey anonymously in English here.
The Current Acute Brain Injury Monitoring Practices within Intensive Care survey is an initiative of the ESICM NIC Section. Its primary objective is to capture and describe current Neurological ICU monitoring practices across ESICM members. Its secondary objectives include: To establish the availability and use of Multi-Modality Monitors (MMM) in patients with ABI admitted to Intensive Care Units of ESICM members; to establish key barriers to MMM use currently; to establish current MMM practice and variation within major sub-types of ABI; to establish common factors influencing MMM use and to establish if and how MMM are affecting clinical care.Steering Committee:
Dr Vivek Muralidharan, U
Dr Florian Gessler, Germany
Dr Adrian Wong, UK
Dr Laura Galarza, Spain
Professor Fabio Taccone, Belgium
Professor Aarti Sarwal, USA
Dr Virginia Newcombe, UK
Professor Chiara Robba, Italy
Contact: Dr Richard Cashmore, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, cashmorerichard [@] gmail.comParticipate
We call on all ICU Healthcare professionals and especially those working in neuro-intensive care. This survey will provide quantitative data, and offer some additional qualitative data on current practice on Brain Injury Monitoring. This survey has been endorsed by ESICM. It should take no more than 20 minutes to complete.
The Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Blood Purification Therapy Survey is an initiative of the ESICM AKI Section. The primary objective is to determine differences in AKI management practice across ICU. The secondary objective include description on (1) demographics of units (2) AKI incidence, recognition, work force burden, (3) RRT implementation and resourcing.Steering Committee members:
Silvia De Rosa
Bairbre McNicholas
Antoine Schneider
John Prowle
Contact: Silvia De Rosa, Centre for Medical Sciences – CISMed, University of Trento, Via S. Maria Maddalena 1, 38122 Trento, Italy silvia.derosa [@] unitn.itParticipate
We call on all ICUs. We are specifically targeting ICU directors for each unit that delivers CRRT. This survey will provide a current state of the art on the diagnosis of acute kdiney injury and management of extracorporeal blood purification therapy. This survey has been endorsed by ESICM. It should take no more than 20 minutes to complete.
The survey will present the same question as the survey in the paper published in 2017 [PMID: 28787293]. Several factors have been advocated for their importance in the management of patients in ICU settings including delirium, pain and analgesia, early mobility, and family involvement. In 2018 the PADIS (Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU) guidelines were published to provide clinicians with specific indications for the management of pain, analgesia, and delirium. In 2017 we conducted a survey to assess the knowledge and use of the ABCDEF (Assessing Pain, Both Spontaneous Awakening and Breathing Trials, Choice of Drugs, Delirium monitoring/management, Early exercise/mobility, and Family Empowerment) bundle worldwide and we found wide variability on its application across individual countries. After 6 years, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to implement a new release of the survey to have a new picture of the ABCDEF bundle application worldwide. We think that this could offer interesting insights into the implementation of the ABCDEF bundle and possibly identify specific barriers and targets for further quality improvement and adoption of the bundle.
Our focus is to explore the knowledge about the ABCDEF bundle and the grade of its implementation worldwide, including, in this new release, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.Contact: Simone PIVA, Dept. of Medical & Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences & Public Health, University of Brescia; Dept. of Emergency, Spedali Civili University Hospital, Brescia, Italy Simone.piva@unibs.itParticipate
This survey has been endorsed by ESICM. We ask all ICU health care professionals to participate. The survey is anonymous. It should take no more than 15 minutes.
Towards a diverse and inclusive society: a survey of perceptions of discrimination
This survey will help to prioritize strategies to address discrimination and increase equity within ESICM.
This survey aims to collect subjective opinions (perception of discrimination) from a sample of ESICM Lives 2023 attendees and ESICM members that will be analyzed as a representative of intensive care health workers worldwide.Period: starting on 21 October at LIVES 2023. This survey is open.Co-leaders:
Michelle Chew, Chair-elect of the ESICM CD Section.
Olfa Hamzaoui, member of the CD Section and National Representative for France in the ESICM Council.Participate
We call on ESICM LIVES 2023 attendees and ESICM members. The survey completion is voluntary.
This survey has been endorsed by ESICM. It should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
Training and implementation of Critical Care Ultrasonography (CCUS): a survey The primary objective of this study is to get insight into the current status and experiences of CCUS use and certification. Secondary objective is to determine possible causes for the lack of implementation of CCUS. This survey has been designed after consultation with the EDEC, Clinical Training and NEXT Committee of the ESICM and have their support. With this survey we will provide an overview of the current status of CCUS use in the ICU for use and training. In addition, we want to determine which factors have the most influence on the (lack of) use of CCUS in clinical practice and certification.Steering committee:
Adrian Wong
Amne Mousa
Laura Galarza
Philippe Vignon
Pieter Roel Tuinman
Contact: Pieter R. Tuinman, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location VUmc, The Netherlands p.tuinman@amsterdamumc.nlParticipate
This survey has been endorsed by ESICM.
We ask all ICU health care professionals with or without experience in CCUS to participate. The survey is anonymous.
It should take no more than 10 minutes.
A survey of when to intubate in hypoxemic respiratory failure
We call on ESICM LIVES 2023 attendees and ESICM members. The survey completion is voluntary. This survey has been endorsed by ESICM. It should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. This survey aims to collect subjective opinions (perception of discrimination) from a sample of ESICM Lives 2023 attendees and ESICM members that will be analyzed as a representative of intensive care health workers worldwide.The primary objective is to determine the influence of relevant physiologic variables on the decision to intubate and ventilate in the context of hypoxemic respiratory failure.The secondary objective is to evaluate the probability of recommending intubation among patients who meet physiologic thresholds that could be tested in randomized clinical trials.Steering Committee:
Giacomo Bellani
Rob Fowler
Sangeeta Mehta
Kim Lewis
Georgiana Roman-Sarita
Harm-Jan De Grooth
Federico Angriman
Hannah Wozniak
Thiago Bassi
Jariya Sereeyotin
Idunn Morris
Peter Reardon
Baoli Li
Ewan Goligher
Takeshi Yoshida
Contact: Christopher Yarnell, University of Toronto Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University Health Network and Scarborough Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaParticipate
This survey has been endorsed by ESICM.
We call on clinicians involved in the decision to initiate invasive ventilation in hypoxemic respiratory failure. This includes, but is not limited to critical care medicine clinicians. It also includes physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and (in some jurisdictions) physiotherapists. to complete the survey anonymously in English. The survey completion is voluntary.
