Shocking statistics from Dominique Byrne this morning: 25% of hospital patients don’t know why they are there. Average adult reading age in UK is 9yrs old. We need to think carefully about how we explain things to our patients and their families. Intensive Care Society 💙 #SOA23

Study presented by Laura Harbert of 15 trached patients unable to tolerate cuff down w/ whom ACV was trialled: - 74% demonstrated improved ICU FCS score with most going from 1 to 4 - 67% demonstrated increased frequency in saliva swallows - Only 1 patient reported discomfort

Incredibly powerful talk from Ben Ivory on structuring and giving nuance to delivering bad news, including the need to provide silence and resist the urge to fill it to allow families to process. “If the silence doesn’t feel too long for you, then it’s not long enough.” #SOA23

A brilliant emotive talk by NHS Blood+Transplant about breaking bad news to families in ICU. My favourite talk so far! Intensive Care Society 💙 #SOA23 Morwenna Maddock

So proud to have shared this platform with so many amazing #ICUMDT members at the #SOA23 congress. Today I presented on how Above Cuff Vocalisation can benefit our patient’s communication and swallow. Intensive Care Society 💙 Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Trust Critical Care RCSLTTracheCEN #SLT

One year on...here is my PhD in a lay person friendly video! With the hugest thanks to the fabulous Mandeep Bhabra for all her help to bring this together. youtu.be/WJ6m_6eGC6Y Clinical Academics in SLT Imperial College AHSC Surgery and Cancer Imperial People 💙 MSk Lab Caroline Alexander @ClinicLvs Dr Justin Roe

Brilliant thread on trache tubes. Especially the risks of fenestrated tubes!

📌SAVE THE DATE: 5th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder next year in Italy! 🇮🇹 This multi-disciplinary conference brings together international experts from a range of backgrounds including neurology, physiology, psychiatry, psychology and ethics.

What are the long term impacts of cognitive-communication changes following TBI? Our latest publication explores this topic and includes amazing insights from our participants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/P…

Twittersphere folk, suggestions pls ... If you were visioning a communication-accessible hospital 🏥 of the future, what would be top of your 🌟 wish list 🌟 in terms of people skills training & communication support resources that would give the biggest + widest impact? Pls RT

#SLT side-hustle…

Job Adver: Severe Asthma Highly Specialist SLT FT 12mo Mat leave cover post. This post is part of a Severe Asthma MDT with dedicated SLT clinics (face to face and virtual), joint ENT/SLT clinic, weekly MDM and opportunities to run MDT groups. jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Is #ultrasound a useful tool to detect #airway #secretions in the #ICU population? A big thank you to our #critical #care #speechies whose critical review provoked lots of thought & discussion in our meeting today: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

HAPPY FRIDAY! Don't forget to register for the FREE ICU webinar, discussing the impact of PES on crit care dysphagia and decannulation status. Over 230 have already registered, don't miss out! UK 1PM OCT 4TH: loom.ly/zpzDOow UK 7PM OCT 4TH: loom.ly/K5FSnfs

Job Opportunity: 8a Clinical Lead in Acute Full time and substantive - we are losing the brilliant Zasha Mauger Hillier to Australia so we need someone equally wonderful to work with our #SLT team Imperial NHS 💙 jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba… Dr Justin Roe Tarni Davies Chris Flatt Fiona Brown

Out of the fourteen staff nominated, Dr Justin Roe, clinical service lead (speech and language therapy) and Professor of practice (speech and swallowing rehabilitation) is our first speech and language therapist to be awarded Professor of practice. Well done Dr Justin Roe 👏

✨✨COME JOIN OUR UPPER AIRWAY TEAM! ✨✨ Our B5 UA SLT post at The Brompton is now open for applications guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/current-vacanc…

The fantastic surgical team removed stage 4 cancer of voice box. My SALT gave me my life back. Thank you all

Really useful paper providing evidence that DELAYED SLT intervention is associated with persistence of post extubation dysphagia and death ⁦RCSLTTracheCEN⁩ ⁦Intensive Care Society 💙⁩ ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New Research: Nil per os in the management of oropharyngeal dysphagia—exploring the unintended consequences frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #RehabilitationSciences