Samiran Ray

PICU Consultant, London. Researcher of critical care physiology in children. Doubter of dogma. Ethical eye brow raiser. Chronically uncertain.

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

🤔 @PICSociety

[Dr Colm Henry, CCO HSE Ireland @CcoHse]

The HSE new RSV immunisation programme has protected nearly 12.5K infants so far this year. Since Sept 1st, almost 95% reduction in hospitalisations in target group of infants compared to last year and > 90% reduction in ICU admissions. Comhgairdeas leis na foirne uilig.

[Andy Conway Morris 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @andymoz78]

Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab @cambridgeuni studying the immune responses to pneumonia in the lung & blood. What mechanisms drive lung injury, & how can we treat them. 🧵 below
Two options -standard
https://t.co/tMK1hoCO8x
or + industry placement
https://t.co/rR7SUX2wGf

[Emma Alexander @emmaaaaa8]

Hello UK PICU friends - could I please ask for your help! I have a short three-question survey to get some rough baseline data about oxygenation/respiratory support practices to help with a grant application https://t.co/LG20VzXOsf @pic_pram

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

A liberal transfusion strategy compared with a restrictive strategy resulted in a lower rate of unfavorable neurological outcome among patients with acute brain injury.

https://t.co/RgQDMKs83Z #LIVES2024

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

Slow Sunday

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

@pic_pram @imperialcollege @ImperialSandC @APMIC_Imperial Congratulations! Much deserved, you will wear it well (may need a few more elbow patches).

[deborah lees @debstewart]

Interested in joining the Paediatric ICUs at #GOSH? Come along to our open day. All welcome - adult and paediatric nurses. @GoshJobs

[Charlotte Sloane @CSloane019]

Help improve children's emergency care! 🚨 Share your voice in our final online survey:

What are the Top 10 questions researchers should answer to improve emergency care for children and young people?

#PEM #HealthResearch #ChildrensHealth

Survey link: https://t.co/PPx7e4EFFc

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

Super two days at GOSH @GOSHDRIVE with the #PHEMS collaborators discussing federated learning for paediatric use cases across Europe @TheHyveNL @GOSHCharity @HUS_fi @lrb93 @aridhia https://t.co/NQwOUgI63h

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

Hannah Mitchell presenting associations between deprivation, ethnicity and pollution and the risk of mortality in PICU patients over 10 years in the UK. Competing for the Young Investigator of the year, a superstar in the making! @SarahESeaton @pic_pram @PICANetAudit #espnic2024

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

Respiratory strategies for NIV use by ⁦@pic_pram⁩ - audience spilling out - we need a bigger room! #espnic2024

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

Super to see this presented with the whole dataset (Spain, UK and Italy). Important data, and much more to analyse 👏 @laurabutragueno @FChiusoloMD @AvishaySarfatti and all others who contributed data! #espnic2024

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

@RobertCTasker @PedCritCareMed @SCCM_Pediatrics @SCCM @WFPICCS @PNCRGtweets @PCICS_Society @BCH_PCCMfellows I think for anyone practising clinical medicine!

[Prof P Ramnarayan (Ram) @pic_pram]

Hurry - job ads for NOT 1️⃣ but 2️⃣@imperialcollege data scientists to work on #PedsICU data and develop #AI tools to help sick children closes 12th Feb. Apply now! @matkomorowski @agordonICU @ImperialAI @ImperialDSI @AI4HealthCentre https://t.co/BaeBrFSrd2

https://t.co/4DSHxrdjFU

[Ethics in Bricks @EthicsInBricks]

"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital." - Noam Chomsky

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

@DocEd @PICJournalWatch will probably provide you with inspiration!

[Nazima Pathan @drnazimapathan]

Out today in @SciReports - the PICNIC SDD pilot trial and feasibility study - first multi centre study of SDD use in the #pedsICU is here https://t.co/HMPmZtW2D8 @NIHRresearch funded feasibility study run at Cambridge, Southampton, Oxford, Bristol, St George's Birmingham @ICNARC

[Chris Gale @DrCGale]

@NIHRresearch Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) posts in paediatrics are now open for applications in London - they are a fantastic opportunity to combine paediatric and academic training @LspTcAcademic

https://t.co/OpuDssgceg

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

@PICJournalWatch @AvishaySarfatti @SimonStanworth But also, this is the UK arm of a larger European study, masterminded by @laurabutragueno @FChiusoloMD. Hope to combine the results to show what we actually do (and not what we think we do!) 2/2

[Samiran Ray @DrSamRay]

@PICJournalWatch @AvishaySarfatti @SimonStanworth Thanks - and sorry to not be there! But credit has to go to all the people who collected the data (and there was a lot of it!) 1/2