Optimising outcomes in paediatric acute, emergency, and critical care

1. Muscle function changes in children during and after critical illness (Paul Comfort and Lyvonne Tume)  

2. Development and validation of a nutrition risk score for critically ill children (Lyvonne Tume) 

3. RCT of improved therapeutic environment by noise and light reduction intervention in the PICU (Lyvonne Tume) 

4. Does somatic NIRS predict earlier risk of NEC in pre- and post-operative cardiac neonates on PICU? (Lyvonne Tume) 

5. Screening for sepsis in children (Andrew Rowland) 

• Development and validation of a clinical prediction tool to predict the likelihood of sepsis in children 

• Development and validation of a clinical prediction tool to predict the likelihood of sepsis in children 

6. Identification by emergency department nurses of children presenting with masked critical illness (Andrew Rowland, Lyvonne Tume) 

• Establishing the sub-conscious factors that prompt senior nurses in children’s emergency departments to identify children as being of high-level concern when physiological measures fail to do so: making implicit judgement explicit 

7. Sudden and unexpected death in childhood 

• Determining the impact of a sudden and unexpected death in childhood joint agency response service 

• Determining the impact of a sudden and unexpected death in childhood joint agency response service 

8. Primary care leading to admission to hospital of children 

• Development and testing of a clinical prediction model to predict the likelihood of admission to hospital of children seen in primary care