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David Harrison

@davidaharrison.bsky.social
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Co-Director of ICNARC. Honorary Professor of medical statistics at LSHTM.

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JAMA @jama.com · 12/06/2026
Withholding routine gastric residual volume (#GRV) assessments in ventilated children was noninferior for survival and ventilator-free days, while improving early nutrition and causing no increase in complications. #CCR26 @criticalcarereviews.com ja.ma/3QjwKHM
JAMA study: Not routinely assessing gastric residual volume (GRV) in 4460 critically ill children was noninferior to usual care (survival 25 days, OR 0.95), increasing nutritional achievement at 72 hrs. Both groups had median 25 days survival/vent-free days.
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JAMA @jama.com · 12/06/2026
📊 Research Summary: In critically ill children, omitting routine #GRV measurement did not affect survival or ventilator-free days and improved nutritional target achievement, supporting deimplementation. #CCR26 @criticalcarereviews.com ja.ma/4emRvdG
JAMA Research Summary on Gastric Residual Volume Assessment in Critically Ill Children. Diagram compares 'No routine GRV assessment' (2220 children) and 'Usual care' (2240 children), showing an infant and stomach with feeding tube. Both groups had 25 (21-27) median days free of mechanical ventilation. No routine assessment was noninferior to usual care.
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 29/04/2026
➡️ Measuring gastric residual volume has been standard practice for years in PICU ➡️ But does it improve outcomes — or just feel reassuring? ➡️ Could feed interruption based on this cause harm? ➡️ GASTRIC-PICU reports at #CCR26 🔴 Join us in June criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr26
Flyer for the GASTRIC-PICU trial results session at CCR26
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Segun Olusanya (He/Him) @drfreeze.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Fantastic to see this published at last An objective assessment of the efficacy of home pulse oximeters on different skin tones Ping @iwashyna.bsky.social Open to comments from all #foamed #medsky www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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The impact of skin tone on performance of pulse oximeters used by NHS England COVID Oximetry {at}home scheme: measurement and diagnostic accuracy study
Objectives To assess the impact of skin tone on the measurement and diagnostic accuracy of five fingertip pulse oximeters used by patients in the NHS (National Health Service) England COVID Oximetry {...
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 24/12/2025
🎄 On the fourth day of Christmas CCR brings to thee 🎁 Four thousand seven hundred children 🎅 No routine gastric residuals measured routinely 🎶 And a partridge in a pear tree #CCR26 criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr26
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Delighted to share details of @nihr.bsky.social James Lind Alliance research priority setting survey for delirium. For completion by UK health/social professionals and those with personal experience of delirium. Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
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A Delirium (UK) James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership - Wolfson Institute of Population Health
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Alex Warren @alexwarrenicu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
16,500 patients randomised to #UKROXTrial presented just now at #CCR25 and simultaneously published in @jama.com No difference in 90d mortality between target SpO2 88-92 with reduced exposure to supplemental O2 vs usual care jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Conservative Oxygen Therapy With Mechanical Ventilation
This randomized clinical trial assesses whether reducing supplemental oxygen to a peripheral oxygen saturation target of 90% would reduce mortality among critically ill adults receiving mechanical ven...
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Mark Peters @markpicu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
UK-ROx: No harm (or benefit) from a conservative oxygenation strategy in 16,500 mechanically ventilated critically ill adults. #CCR25
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JAMA @jama.com · 12/06/2025
Conservative oxygen therapy with a target SpO2 of 90% did not reduce 90-day all-cause mortality compared to usual oxygen therapy in mechanically ventilated adult patients. #CCR25 @criticalcarereviews.com ja.ma/4kG5gWK
Figure 2. Oxygen Exposure and Arterial Oxygenation by Treatment Group in Patients With Enhanced Data Collection
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David Harrison @davidaharrison.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Here we go… #UKROXtrial #CCR25
Professor Dan Martin presenting the UK - ROX trial at Critical Care Reviews 2025
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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 03/06/2025
Calling all UK-based healthcare professionals who have undertaken a quality improvement project! Share your experiences with us and help us to develop new approaches. Certificates of participation offered. Find out more and fill out the short survey ths.im/3SUUwHG
Three healthcare professionals in scrubs collaborate around a glass wall covered in colourful sticky notes.
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 31/05/2025
🚨UK-ROX TRIAL Results at #CCR25🚨 📍 ~100 🇬🇧 ICUs 👥 ~16,500 pts 🎯 Conservative vs usual oxygen therapy in invasively ventilated adults 🩺 Outcome: Mortality day 90 🤔 Will less oxygen save lives? 📺 Free livestream — but it's better in person! 🔗 criticalcarereviews.com/ccr25
Flyer for the UK-ROX trial results presentation at #CCR25
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Intensive Care Society @ics-updates.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The Society and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) are updating the Guidelines for the Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS). The consultation period for Version 3 is now open and we would value your feedback on the proposed changes. Read more and take part below👇 bit.ly/GPICSv3
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David Harrison @davidaharrison.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Shocked to wake up to this news. Condolences to Rinaldo’s family and friends, and all our friends and colleagues in the ANZICS community. Vale Rinaldo.
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WHO @who.int · 24/04/2025
It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute. A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives. #VaccinesWork bit.ly/wiw2025
Every 10 seconds vaccination saves a life.
Immunization for all is Humanly Possible
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UCL Innovative Clinical Trials Unit @innovative-ctu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
People who take part in #ClinicalTrials and other research have a right to know the results of these studies. Our 8 principles aim to improve the sharing of trial results with participants. They were developed alongside UK clinical research funders. More details👉 buff.ly/SGrmL7o
Text reads: Principles of sharing clinical trial results with participants.
1. Trial teams should pro-actively offer overall study results to all clinical trial participants, irrespective of what the results show.
2. Participants should be given the choice of whether to receive research results.
3. Results should be offered to participants in a timely manner.
4. Trial teams should manage participants’ expectations around when the results will be available.
5. Results should be offered in a way that is accessible to participants, both in terms of the communication mechanism and the content.
6. Patient and public involvement is essential in sharing results with participants.
7. Sharing results with participants requires resources.
8. Consideration needs to be given to potential barriers/challenges to sharing results with participants from the planning stage of the study.
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qiang-statistics.bsky.social @qiang-statistics.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Invitation to a Two-Round Delphi Study on Sample Size Reporting in Trial Grant Applications and Protocols for Adaptive Designs! Click the link below to participate 👏: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Or directly contact: qzhang104@sheffield.ac.uk.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I'm honoured to have been asked to give this year's @healthfoundation.bsky.social annual REAL Challenge lecture - on the theme of AI and health. Thursday 13th Feb in person / online. You can register here and please do share with any networks that may be interested www.health.org.uk/events/hype-...
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Hype, hallucination, hope – what might AI mean for our health?
In our fifth REAL Challenge annual lecture, Hetan Shah will warn of the risk of rushing breathlessly to unleash technology. He will explore how policymakers can navigate the hype and critically assess...
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Royal College of Anaesthetists @rcoanews.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The College is seeking applications for the position of Director of our Centre for Research and Improvement, which oversees delivery of all College research projects. An exciting opportunity to play a vital role in our research and improvement work. ow.ly/A47350UQfxx @rcoa-cri.bsky.social
Royal College of Anaesthetists
Centre for Research and Improvement
Director
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Mark Peters @markpicu.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Post-hoc analysis of Oxy-PICU by baseline severity of gas exchange - no detectable heterogeneity of treatment effect. journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/...
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Severity of Impaired Oxygenation and Conservative... : Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
2% was associated with a shorter duration of organ support and greater survival, compared with Spo2 greater than 94%, in mechanically ventilated children following unplanned admission to PICU. We inve...
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Mark Peters @markpicu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
1 year follow-up and health economics of Oxy-PICU. All point estimates still favour conservative oxygenation but differences are not statistically significant with the slightly smaller sample size. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Longer-term survival, quality of life, and cost-effectiveness of conservative versus liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children: a pre-specified analysis from Oxy-PICU, a multicentre, open...
Peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) above 94% is typical in children in paediatric intensive critical care units (PICUs) who are receiving invasive ve…
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 10/01/2025
The third trial result for #CCR25 in Titanic Belfast in June is the UK-Rox Trial Evaluating the clinical & cost-effectiveness of a conservative approach to oxygen therapy for invasively ventilated adults in ICU Register via the QR code or on the CCR website criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr25
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 09/01/2025
The second trial result for #CCR25 in Titanic Belfast in June is GASTROSAM Gastroenteritis Rehydration of African Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition Join us in June for the best critical care trials in the world Register at criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr25
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Kerry Woolfall @woolfall.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Designing an adaptive platform trial with parents, young people and PICU staff in a NIHR accelerator grant. Here’s how we did it and what the platform should look like: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1... @nihr.bsky.social @trakmitch.bsky.social @lyvonnetume.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
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Developing an adaptive paediatric intensive care unit platform trial with key stakeholders: a qualitative study
Objectives Platform trials were used successfully in adult populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. By testing multiple treatments within a single trial, platform trials can help identify the most ef...
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Nature @nature.com · 19/12/2024
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
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Intensive Care Society @ics-updates.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Want to advance as a leader in 2025? Apply for #LeaP4 before 10 January to explore your leadership potential and explore modules on authentic leadership, managing work and emotional intelligence. Learn more below and join our transformative programme👇 bit.ly/leaP4
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David Harrison @davidaharrison.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Congratulations Rob! @criticalcarereviews.com
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JAMA @jama.com · 09/12/2024
Published in JAMA with #CCRdownunder: In critically ill adults with suspected sepsis, antibiotic regimens were safely reduced when guided by measurement of procalcitonin but not by C-reactive protein. @criticalcarereviews.com ja.ma/3BovM5v
Figure 3. Kaplan-Meier Curves for Probability of Antibiotic Duration and Mortality to 28 Days
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Marion Campbell @marionkcampbell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A design that came up in discussion at the #ACTA clinical trials conference last week was the”effectiveness-implementation hybrid design” 1/8 #MethodologyMonday #108
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 08/12/2024
It's 9am in Melbourne Just 24 hours to CCR Down Under 8 major trial results Full, free livestream criticalcarereviews.com
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Dr Victoria Shepherd @vickylshepherd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📢Now live📢 CONSULT e-learning on trials involving adults with impaired capacity to consent - 4 core modules, case studies, links to resources, free to access, download a certificate on completion 🔗https://www.capacityconsentresearch.com/training @kerryhood.bsky.social @ukctunetwork.bsky.social
Flyer for CONSULT training on trials involving adults lacking capacity to consent
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 03/12/2024
➡️ 8 major critical care trial results live from Melbourne ➡️ Full free livestream ➡️ Tuesday & Wednesday, December 10th & 11th ➡️ Times are UTC +11 ➡️https://criticalcarereviews.com
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David Harrison @davidaharrison.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ciao, Luciano I’m honoured to have known you. A sad day for critical care. RIP
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Today’s poem is dedicated to all those who have taken it upon themselves to correct the grammar or spelling in my poems over the last few weeks. It’s called ‘Pedents’.
Pedents
 
Foot soldiers in the War on Error,
They’re here to save us from ourselves,
With Fowler’s Modern English Usage
(first edition, nineteen twelve).
 
They scrutinise each word we write
For typos, gaffes, et cetera,
Correcting all our dumb mistakes
To make our grammar betterer.
 
They sigh and tut and tell us off
For the rules we have forsaken
And chart this nation’s steep decline
By the care we should of taken.
 
Custodians of the King’s English,
They merely serve to keep it pure
And restrict, they hope, the ignorant
To three mistakes or less.
 
In doing so, they hold no fear
they will deprive a thing of life:
for it’s not important what is said,
what matters is that its right.


Brian Bilston
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David Harrison @davidaharrison.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sharing good news on the #UKROXtrial from the other place…
Image from X: UK-ROX trial has completed recruitment
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 20/11/2024
Registration for the Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2025 is now open ➡️ June 11th to 13th ➡️ Titanic Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland The Best Critical Care Trials in the World criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr25
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CCR25
Critical Care Reviews Meeting 2025, Titanic Belfast, June 11th to 13th. Featuring 12 major critical care trial results
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