A systematic review and classification of interventions for speech-sound disorder in preschool children (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Background: Multiple interventions have been developed to address speech sound disorder (SSD) in children. Many of these have been evaluated but the evidence for these has not been considered wit... Read More about A systematic review and classification of interventions for speech-sound disorder in preschool children.

Gender dynamics in the donation field: Human tissue donation for research, therapy and feeding (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research on blood and organ donation in the UK reveal disparities between the proportions of women and men donating tissues. In this paper, we examine how gender dynamics shape human tissue donation for research and for human health. We consider the... Read More about Gender dynamics in the donation field: Human tissue donation for research, therapy and feeding.

Enteral Feeding Practices in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease Across European PICUs: A European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Survey (2017)
Journal Article

© Copyright 2017 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. Objectives: To describe enteral feeding practices in pre and postoperative infants with congenital heart disease in... Read More about Enteral Feeding Practices in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease Across European PICUs: A European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Survey.

Enteral Feeding in Children on Noninvasive Ventilation Is Feasible, but Clinicians Remain Fearful (2017)
Journal Article

Invited editorial on a paper

Routine gastric residual volume measurement and energy target achievement in the PICU: A comparison study (2017)
Journal Article

Critically ill children frequently fail to achieve adequate energy intake and some care practices, such as the measurement of gastric residual volume (GRV) may contribute to this problem. We compared outcomes in two similar European Pediatric Intensi... Read More about Routine gastric residual volume measurement and energy target achievement in the PICU: A comparison study.

Patterns of instability associated with endotracheal suctioning in infants with singleventricle physiology (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Background In infants with single-ventricle physiology, endotracheal suctioning poses risks because of the instability between pulmonary and systemic blood flow. Objective To examine processes and... Read More about Patterns of instability associated with endotracheal suctioning in infants with singleventricle physiology.

Emergency medical service provider decision-making in out of hospital cardiac arrest: An exploratory study (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: There are approximately 60,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in the United Kingdom (UK) each year. Within the UK there are well-established clinical practice guidelines that define when resuscitation should... Read More about Emergency medical service provider decision-making in out of hospital cardiac arrest: An exploratory study.

Language development, delay and intervention—the views of parents from communities that speech and language therapy managers in England consider to be under-served (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016 Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Background: Evidence-based practice includes research evidence, clinical expertise and stakeholder perspectives. Stakeholder perspectives are important and include parental ethno-theories, which... Read More about Language development, delay and intervention—the views of parents from communities that speech and language therapy managers in England consider to be under-served.

Not all waits are equal: An exploratory investigation of emergency care patient pathways (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Increasing pressure in the United Kingdom (UK) urgent care system has led to Emergency Departments (EDs) failing to meet the national requirement that 95% of patients are admitted, discharged or transferred within 4-... Read More about Not all waits are equal: An exploratory investigation of emergency care patient pathways.

Paediatric intensive care nurses' decision-making around gastric residual volume measurement (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 British Association of Critical Care Nurses Background: Measuring gastric residual volume (GRV) to guide enteral feeding is a common nursing practice in intensive care units, yet little evidence supports this practice. In addition, this practi... Read More about Paediatric intensive care nurses' decision-making around gastric residual volume measurement.

Focus groups for co-design of robotic trousers for improving mobility in older people (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research purpose and aims
By 2039 more than one in twelve of the population is projected to be aged 80 or over, bringing increased prevalence of immobility and reduced quality of life (ONS, 2015). Current assistive equipment for improving mobility c... Read More about Focus groups for co-design of robotic trousers for improving mobility in older people.

Pilot Study Comparing Closed Versus Open Tracheal Suctioning in Postoperative Neonates and Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. Objectives: To determine the hemodynamic effect of tracheal suction method in the first 36 hours after high-risk in... Read More about Pilot Study Comparing Closed Versus Open Tracheal Suctioning in Postoperative Neonates and Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease.

Nursing judgement and decision-making using the Sedation Withdrawal Score (SWS) in children (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate registered children's nurses’ approaches to the assessment and management of withdrawal syndrome in children. Background: Assessment of withdrawal syndrome is undertaken follow... Read More about Nursing judgement and decision-making using the Sedation Withdrawal Score (SWS) in children.

Mechanical ventilation, weaning practices, and decision making in European PICUs (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. Objectives: This survey had three key objectives: 1) To describe responsibility for key ventilation and weaning dec... Read More about Mechanical ventilation, weaning practices, and decision making in European PICUs.

Home or hospital for people with dementia and one or more other multimorbidities: What is the potential to reduce avoidable emergency admissions? the HOMEWARD Project Protocol (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. IntroductionOlder people with multimorbidities frequently access 999 ambulance services. When multimorbidities include dementia, the risk of ambulance use, accident and emergency (A&E) attendance... Read More about Home or hospital for people with dementia and one or more other multimorbidities: What is the potential to reduce avoidable emergency admissions? the HOMEWARD Project Protocol.

Press accept to update now: Individual differences in susceptibility to malevolent interruptions (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors Increasingly, connected communication technologies have resulted in people being exposed to fraudulent communications by scammers and hackers attempting to gain access to computer systems for malicious purposes. Common influence te... Read More about Press accept to update now: Individual differences in susceptibility to malevolent interruptions.

Systematic review of the effectiveness of prehospital critical care following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Background Improving survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a priority for modern emergency medical services (EMS) and prehospital research. Advanced life support (ALS) is now the standard of care in most EMS. In some EMS, pre... Read More about Systematic review of the effectiveness of prehospital critical care following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Attitudes towards fever amongst UK paediatric intensive care staff (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The role played by fever in the outcome of critical illness in children is unclear. This survey of medical and nursing staff in 35 paediatric intensive care units and transport teams in the United Kingdom an... Read More about Attitudes towards fever amongst UK paediatric intensive care staff.

Changes in new recruits’ motivation and intentions to use a learning portfolio: A longitudinal investigation (2017)
Journal Article

The purpose of the study was to examine motivation and intentions to complete a learning portfolio. Seventy newly recruited Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) at a UK police constabulary completed questionnaires at four different time points d... Read More about Changes in new recruits’ motivation and intentions to use a learning portfolio: A longitudinal investigation.

Manual takeover and handover of a simulated fully autonomous vehicle within urban and extra urban settings (2017)
Book Chapter

Relatively little is known about human behavior and performance when retaking control of highly autonomous vehicles (AVs) at different speeds and under varied driving conditions. Past research has tended to focus on long periods of high-speed extra-u... Read More about Manual takeover and handover of a simulated fully autonomous vehicle within urban and extra urban settings.