CYPF Acute Paediatric Occupational Therapy Study Day: Intensive Care

RCOT SS - Children, Young People and Families

Our inaugural study day will be held on Friday 27 October 2017, at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

The programme is dedicated to bringing occupational therapists together to share, promote and discuss good practice within the paediatric intensive care setting.

Programme highlights include:

• National Institute for Health Research presenting on the recent research call ‘early mobilisation in the paediatric intensive care unit’;
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust share their hospital-wide Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) pathway;
• The key take home messages from the 2017 National PICU conference, including the presentation on ‘Early rehabilitation in PICU: How do we do it and what does it achieve?’;
• Current occupational therapy PICU project at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.