Key Points

• Intensive Care is a rapidly evolving specialty, especially when it comes to the evidence behind our practive.
• The evidence base informs mamy of the decisions made on our daily round.
• Research allows us to learn what matters to our patients and, just as importantly, what doesn't matter.
• The evidence allows us to reduce the burdens and complications of unnecessary interventions.
• Professor Andrew Udy also makes an excellent plug for ensuring the research that we do is high-quality research informed by protocols.

Some of the Evidence Mentioned in This Video

• PLUS
• TEAM ICU
• SuDDICU
• NITRIC

Section Author

Professor Andrew Udy
Andrew is Head of Research at The Alfred ICU, Deputy Director, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre – Monash University, and vice-chair ANZICS Clinical Trials Group. His research interests include traumatic brain injury, sepsis, and ECMO. Andrew is passionate about supporting trainees/early-career clinician-scientists, and increasing diversity in clinical research. He is a proud product of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Section Reviewer

Dr Goran Mitric
Goran is an ICU Transitional Year Fellow currently working at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He describes himself as a pharmacology nerd, research novice, and can be found in the gym most mornings.