Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network

PICANet aims to continually support the improvement of paediatric intensive care throughout the UK through clinical audit. The Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) is a national audit coordinated by the Universities of Leeds and Leicester which collects data on all children admitted to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) across the UK. To see a list of participating units please click here.

What's new...

January 2012 - National Review of Asthma Deaths

The National Review of Asthma Deaths are due to start collecting data from 1 Feb 2012 - 31 Jan 2013 and would like the clinical community to notify them of any asthma deaths they are aware of occurring in this period. Please contact Rosie Houston, Programme manager on  rosie.houston@rcplondon.ac.uk or (0)20 3075 1500 or the website at www.rcplondon.ac.uk/nrad

click here for more information

January 2012 - PICANet Annual Meeting 2012- Date announced

We are pleased to announce that the next PICANet annual meeting will be on October 18th 2012 at the University of Leicester.
More details will follow nearer the time but please do let PICANet know if you would like your name down provisionally
.

January 2012 - PICANet Annual Report 2011 for Wales

The 2011 annual report for Wales is now available and can be downloaded by clicking here

October 2011 -National Review of Asthma Deaths: Call for panel assessors

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) are looking to recruit consultants in paediatric intensive care and respiratory nurse specialists to be panel assessors for the National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD). Panel assessors must currently be in clinical practice or have retired within the previous five years.For more information click here

October 2011 - PICANet Annual Report 2011

The 2011 PICANet Annual Report is now available and can be downloaded by clicking on following links:

PICANet 2011 Summary Report

PICANet 2011 Tables and Figures pdf

PICANet 2011 Tables and Figures Excel.

PICANet 2011 Appendices

PICANet would like to thank all of the contributors to this report and the unit staff who have submitted data.

October 2011 - PICANet Newsletter Edition 31 now available

PICANet Newsletter number 31 is now available and can be downloaded by clicking here.

September 2011 - PICU Families Group Lay Representatives

Would you like to help us improve
 paediatric intensive care for families?

Do you have experience as a parent or carer, of involvement with a child who has been admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit?

We are seeking four lay representatives to join the
Paediatric Intensive Care Families Group

For more information click here

August 2011 - PICANet Newsletter Edition 30 now available

PICANet Newsletter number 30 is now available and can be downloaded by clicking here.

July 2011 - 4 PICANet abstracts accepted for presentation at 22nd ESPNIC Medical and Nursing Congress, Hannover,

We hope to see you there!

Hospital admissions and mortality of children admitted to paediatric intensive care in the UK - a linkage study P. Mc Shane, R.C. Parslow, P.A. Mc Kinney, E.S. Draper
Lactate predicts mortality in a multicentre population in paediatric intensive care P. McShane, S. Leteurtre, R.C. Parslow, F. Leclerc, E.S. Draper
H1N1 influenza in paediatric intensive care in the UK and Ireland R.C. Parslow, P. McShane, P. Lister, P.A. Mc Kinney, E.S. Draper
Effects of admission, unit size and season on mortality in Paediatric Intensive Care In England and Wales.. P. Mc Shane, E.S. Draper, P.A. Mc Kinney, J. Mc Fadzean, R.C. Parslow
July 2011 -Childhood Infection and Immunology Day- 22nd Graham and Jenny Watson Study Day -20th January 2012

please see programme

June 2011 - Meningitis Research Foundation announces conference date

Bookings are now open for Meningitis Research Foundation’s Conference 'Meningitis and Septicaemia in Children and Adults 2011', taking place at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 8 and 9 November 2011. The programme covers:

  • burden and cost of illness
  • prevention of meningococcal disease including prospects for protecting against MenB
  • advances from research and implications for prevention and treatment
  • current Issues in recognition and treatment in children and adults
  • preventing pneumococcal disease
  • tackling meningitis in Africa

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