Helen McKenna

Registrar and academic clinical fellow in #icm and #anaesthesia @plymuni. Interested in stress physiology and human bioenergetic adaptation.

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

We are so excited to share what we've discovered about cellular responses to #criticalillness in humans, with evidence for cellular hypoxic adaptation under life-threatening stress @dr_katieOB @andrewmurray78 @deoxyexplorer @XtremeEverest

https://t.co/IoJDEwfoED

[TRIC Network @TRICNetwork]

Email [email protected] for the Teams link to the listening event tomorrow, 1st Nov at 7pm.

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

Looking forward to hearing from #ICM trainees undertaking academic roles at the first “listening event” tomorrow! Hosted by @TRICNetwork, @drdhruvparekh @FICMNews; we’re eager to hear about everyone’s experience and to start working on how we can help.

[TRIC Network @TRICNetwork]

@DrPujaMehta1 @19 @drdhruvparekh The aim of the session is to gather info from ICM academic trainees, hear about issues related to integrating academic and clinical training, and hopefully answer some of the questions that have already been sent to @MitoExplorer.

[Dhruv Parekh @drdhruvparekh]

@DrPujaMehta1 @TRICNetwork @19 @MitoExplorer I’ve heard there is huge amount of variation around the country, lots of challenges. Want to hear about these and things that work have gone well. I know I’ve faced some for our trainees and we want to understand and hopefully improve

[TRIC Network @TRICNetwork]

Calling all Academic ICM trainees!
You asked and we listened. In collaboration with FICM representatives Helen McKenna & Dhruv Parekh, the TRIC Network will soon be hosting its first listening event.
Join us on 1/11/22 @19:00
Email [email protected] for the link

[Dr Helen Newman (& @trache_phd) @HelenNewmanSLT]

It's on PubMed! So pleased to be able to share 1st PhD paper on patient experience of trache, with clinical implications for ICU MDT, 🙏 to wonderful co-authors! @drnatpat @sarahwallaceslt @gemmaclunie @csmithUCL @deoxyexplorer https://t.co/1ziYHZuPwE

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

@CatFelderhof @FICMNews @ICS_updates I wondered if any trainees currently taking CESR-CP route had encountered any problems with it?

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

Question for UK #ICM trainees and trainers: does anyone have any experience of the new CESR-combined programme route towards CCT? @FICMNews @ICS_updates

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

@CatFelderhof @FICMNews @ICS_updates Yes - there seems to be confusion/anxiety around the terminology of “CESR-CP” to describe being on the training programme for a CCT qualification (whilst having some prior ICM experience counted towards training time).

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

@TaquaDahab @_aacw @FICMNews @ICS_updates This is what I have been told, and wondered if anyone had any personal experience of being on the CESR-CP route towards CCT?

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

So many of us are drawn to intensive care training from different backgrounds - it would be great to hear whether this ability to count previous experience has been straightforward, in ICM or other specialities?

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

@Whitehouse_ICU @dfmcauley @veenith_tonny @perkins_gd @agordonICU That’s wonderful to hear - thank you for sharing.

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

@OllyHamilton @FICMNews @NIHRresearch @ICS_updates @TRICNetwork Thank you for sharing this! Will get in contact with @TRICNetwork. Lots of academic ICM trainees are keen to be part of a network, and it would be great to link this to as many of the existing support institutions, such as @FICMNews and @NIHRresearch.

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

Calling all UK academic #ICM trainees! Would you be interested in being part of a UK network, connecting academic trainees from different regions to share experiences of integrating academic with ICM training? Please get in touch via DM! @FICMNews @NIHRresearch @ICS_updates

[Homerton Anaesthesia Dept @HUHgas]

Super presentation, Pram!
We are very lucky to attract such fab research fellows!

[Jordi Monferrer-Marín @monferrermarinj]

Metabolic flexibility during sleep.
https://t.co/xkawWoumxm
@Nature

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

Beautifully written piece, deftly explaining the starker realities of intensive care:

“It maintains life, but does not make you stronger. In fact, it reliably makes you weaker”

“We are bookies; not prophets.”

[peter brindley @docpgb]

PLEASE do the right thing, not the “rights” thing. This is why

https://t.co/aP65e0iXkA

[Journal of Applied Physiology @japplphysiol]

#FreeArticleOfTheWeek: “Human adaptation to hypoxia in critical illness” By: Helen T. McKenna, et al.
https://t.co/7JSjtFlUaO
#JAPPL #Criticaillness #Hypoxia @MitoExplorer @deoxyexplorer

[Helen McKenna @MitoExplorer]

Amazing opportunity to undertake PhD in human cell adaptation from bench to bedside @PlymUni with @deoxyexplorer. Proposal builds on work by @jiajiastevens @jasonvanschoor @XtremeEverest

https://t.co/92uBt69wq6

[Michael Ristow, MD @Prof_M_Ristow]

How #mitochondria-l ROS limit excessive #inflammation: Exciting paper by @GTimblin and colleagues in @NatMetabolism & own corresponding News&Views. #mitohormesis https://t.co/XnqRJQgwjz https://t.co/mMBTNCDu8f