Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Selected abstracts were presented as orals, MDT Diaries, The Cauldron and Gold Medal within the conference programme and the remaining accepted abstracts were presented as electronic posters. Skin temperature and cutaneous temperature gradients are useful qualitative measures in the assessment of microcirculatory function and management of shock.
Objective: To explore the association between CPTD assessed using thermal imaging and illness severity in patients with sepsis. Participants were divided into three groups based on physiological measures and available laboratory investigations: healthy volunteers, sepsis and severe sepsis, as per the international sepsis definitions. All participants were provided a minimum of 30 minutes acclimatisation period to equilibrate to environmental temperature before image acquisition.
CPTD was calculated by subtracting nasal tip temperature from the inner canthal temperature. Results: participants recruited between September and April Table 1. Two were excluded from analysis because of inadequate image quality.
The median CPTD for healthy volunteers, sepsis and severe sepsis groups were 2. In those patients who died within days of enrolment, the median CPTD was 3. Conclusion: We found no obvious association between CPTD using infrared thermal imaging and illness severity in a heterogeneous group of patients with sepsis. Potential reasons include the accuracy with which inner canthal temperature predicts core body temperature, and the impact of non-standardised environments on the acquisition of thermal images.
The ability to provide safe, patient-centred care depends on appropriately skilled and available personnel operating in staffing models that optimise their performance. Current staffing guidance in ICU. There has been limited exploration of these topics from a multi-professional perspective and in the context of critical care. Objective: To explore multi-professional perceptions of safety and missed care in ICU. We conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with ICU staff. Purposive sampling was used to recruit clinicians from different professions and levels of seniority, across three sites of a large NHS Trust.
