Reader in Paediatric Critical Care
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
Dr Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, MD (Ram) is Reader in Paediatric Critical Care at Imperial College and Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at St Mary's Hospital in London. He has a long standing research interest in the epidemiology of paediatric critical illness (including effects of centralisation), provision of non-invasive respiratory support in critical care, and pragmatic clinical trials. He is currently leading the FIRST-ABC master protocol, the largest clinical trial comparing nasal high-flow with continuous positive airway pressure in acutely ill children (step-up) and following extubation (step-down). He is also a co-investigator on some of the largest ongoing pragmatic clinical trials in paediatric critical care (Oxy-PICU, PRESSURE). He has received over £6 million in NIHR funding over the past 3 years. In the past, Ram has led the DEPICT Study (NIHR) and been a co-investigator on the CATCH trial (NIHR).
Ram is recognised as an international leader in paediatric critical care, especially in critical care transport. He has published extensively (>100 peer-reviewed articles), written several book chapters and lectures regularly at national and international scientific meetings. He regularly reviews articles for high-impact journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Ram is the current Chair of the Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group (PCCS-SG), the national paediatric critical care research group, and holds national leadership roles in the NHS England Clinical Reference Group and the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet). He has considerable experience of chairing and attending trial oversight committees and reviewing grant funding applications.
In this session, Ram will be presenting the results of the FIRST-ABC Step-down RCT which compared first-line use of nasal high-flow with CPAP following the extubation of critically ill children.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US CST