Co-founder and CEO of ICUsteps. Critical care survivor, activist, patient representative and speaker. In my spare time, web developer and mountain biker.
Milton Keynes, England
Joined November 2008
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A wonderful achievement for @ICUsteps reaching 5000 signatures for the #RehabIsCritical campaign this evening. @FICMNews @BACCNUK @ICS_updates
icusteps.org/rehab Tomorrow is the 18th birthday of my 2nd life, thanks to #ICU. After 6 weeks in hospital with a TBI and SCI, I escaped with a stolen walker in my pyjamas. That's PICS. That's #delirium. That's why #RehabIsCritical. #ICUrehab for all. @icusteps @BBCHughPym
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@MattHancock @bbchealth @DAaronovitch @SkyNews @FICMNews @bmj_latest @ICS_updates @BACCNUK UK critical care has spoken as one. You’ve turned to us in our year of need. Listen to us now. #RehabIsCritical
Amazing! Over 1000 signatures to @icusteps #RehabIsCritical petition in one day. Those of us who know critical illness understand that #ICUrehab is essential to get our lives back. The public need to understand too, and @MattHancock icusteps.org/rehab
Just 24 hours left in the #Artandco #covid19 charity auction. Last chance to visit artandco.net, get involved and help front line charities including @ICUsteps. This amazing fundraising effort could fund development of our icu patient diary app. Get bidding!
Super excited by the #Artandco #covid19 charity auction. This amazing fundraising effort will make a huge difference and so proud @ICUsteps is one of the beneficiaries. Great art with pieces for auction by Dali, Picasso, Warhol and Koons. artandco.net/ Have a look!
Wood pigeons at Milton Keynes train station adhering to social distancing (except the one on the right)
Happy videos of COVID survivors being applauded leaving hospital is not the end of their journey. It’s the start and they’re being abandoned to face it alone. Survival is not enough. We need support and #icurehab to get our lives back. Listen to @icusteps @ficmnews @BPSofficial
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“But surviving and getting our life back are two different things.” Thank you, for everything you do @chaffron @ICUsteps – at Santiago, Chile
theatlantic.com/video/archiv… Thankyou @elbuder and
@TheAtlantic for this amazing work capturing what it is to be critically ill. This is what ICU survivorship looks like. This is why we founded @icusteps. This is why we need support, #icu_rehab and awareness. Please ReTweet
Delighted to see @ICUsteps PR on the launch of @FICMNews position statement and guidance for patients following the pandemic. Survival is not enough. Support and #ICURehab must now be made standard in the #ICU care pathway. icusteps.org/home/recovery-a… ficm.ac.uk/news-events-educa…
theatlantic.com/video/archiv… Thankyou @elbuder and
@TheAtlantic for this amazing work capturing what it is to be critically ill. This is what ICU survivorship looks like. This is why we founded @icusteps. This is why we need support, #icu_rehab and awareness. Please ReTweet
Think staying home is hard? Try risking your life in ICU working 12 hour shifts, days after day, wrapped in layers of PPE and coping with the loss of half your patients. They’re doing their part. You do yours.
Like your predecessors who founded #ICU the 1950s from the polio epidemic, this is our chance to make #ICURehab a core of the pathway and not an optional extra. Survival is not enough. Giving our lives back to us must be the measure of a successful outcome.
Calling all #Rehablegends who work in ICU... this is our chance to change and challenge #ICU practice.
Please give your feedback to this survey
#SecretGardens for all #NHS trusts!
Grateful to @elbuder for her upcoming feature in @TheAtlantic to highlight the impact of surviving ICU. Critical care may save our lives, but we need support and #icurehab to give those lives back to us. #COVIDー19 will leave survivors struggling without help, as @ICUsteps know
Many congratulations on your well-earned PhD @NydahlPeter. Du bist inspirierend!
Today I passed my PhD defense about Early Mobilization with magna cum laude. Very thankful to @KoepkeSascha @DrDaleNeedham and all who cooperated and helped! Thank you!
A spotlight has been shone on the lack of #icu provision in the UK. That will have to be addressed, but rehab and support cannot be left behind. That is what makes survival worth having.
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Most #icu patients will have delirium. Even in 'normal' times delusional memories leave psychological scars on survivors. Waking to a world where everyone is in space-suits and there's no reassuring family voice, that will be so much harder. Now more than ever we need #icurehab
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That's so true. We must learn from the #covid_19 experience. #ICU may save our lives, but we need support and rehabilitation to give those lives back to us. Compared to treatment, rehab is cheap - even a saving in the big picture. #icurehab should not be an optional extra.
