Fundamentals of critical care

Professor Jerry Nolan is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Warwick, and Honorary Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Bristol, UK. He trained at Bristol Medical School (MB ChB 1983) and undertook anaesthesia and critical care training in the UK in Plymouth, Bristol, Bath and Southampton, and at the Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore in the United States. Professor Nolan is Immediate Past Chairman of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and Resuscitation Council (UK), and the Immediate Past Co-chairman of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). Jerry is Editor-in-Chief of the journals Resuscitation and Resuscitation Plus. Professor Nolan's research interests are in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway management, and post-cardiac arrest treatment – he has authored over 300 original papers, reviews and editorials on these topics. He remains a full-time clinician and his clinical time is divided equally between anaesthesia and intensive care.

Dr Ostermann is a Consultant in Critical Care and has a special clinical and academic interest in acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy. She is also Director of Research of the Intensive Care Society UK and Chair of the Research Committee of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

Dr Page is a clinical researcher and a national authority on ICU delirium. She has undertaken original interventional trials in critically ill patients using haloperidol and simvastatin. She is a co-investigator on the A2B sedation trial and co-chief Investigator in Del-CoRS project to develop core outcome sets for delirium.

Dr Hallie Prescott is an Associate Professor in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, where she attends in medical ICU and outpatient pulmonary clinic. She is an expert in long-term outcomes and recovery after sepsis and COVID-19. Her research program on sepsis care and outcome is funded by the US Department of Veterans Affairs and US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She is physician-lead for a Michigan statewide sepsis quality improvement collaborative funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Serves as a vice-chair of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines and a council member of the International Sepsis Forum.