National Critical Care Standards

National Operational Guidelines

Adult Critical Care service Specification 2019

ICS Levels of Care 2021

Guidance on Establishing and Delivering Enhanced Peri-Operative Care Services 2020

National Clinical Guidelines

ICS Environmental Sustainability Recipe Book 2025
ICS Guidance for Delirium in the Critically Ill Patient 2025
ICS/CCG/UKCPA Standard Medication Concentrations for Continuous Infusions in Adult Critical Care 2020
ICS Guidance For: Prevention, diagnosis and management of Plexopathy during prone positioning 2020
ICS Guidance For: The use of Vasopressor Agents by Peripheral Intravenous Infusion in Adult Critical Care Patients 2020
ICS Guidance for: Tracheostomy Care 2020
ICS Guidance for the Use of Physical Restraints in UK Adult Intensive Care Patients 2020
ICS ​Intensive care as a positive place to work: Workforce wellbeing best practice framework 2020
ICS Guidance for: Animal Assisted Intervention in a Critical Care setting 2020
ICS Guidance on the Management of Patients with Gas Embolism 2019
ICS Guidance Sedation for Patients in ICU 2014 
ICS Capnography in the ICU 2016
ICS / FICM Guidance on MCA and DOL 2017
ICS Equipment in Critical Care 
ICS Tracheostomy Standards 2014
ICS Best Interest Decisions Guidance 2019
ICS / RCoA / FICM Seasonal Influenza Guidance for ICU 2017
Management of Perceived Devastating Brain Injury After Hospital Admission: Consensus Statement 2018
ICS / FICM ARDS Guideline 2018
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Appendix A - PRISMA Diagrams
Appendix B - GRADE Evidence
Appendix C - Search Strategies
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Joint Guidance : For the Diagnosis of Death using Neurological Criteria when the patient is supported with (ECMO) 2018
Joint Guidance : Form for the Diagnosis of Death using Neurological Criteria {long version} 2019
Joint Guidance : Care of the Critically Ill Woman in Childbirth 2018
RCoO / ICS Eye Care in the ICU 2017
ICS / FICM Prone Positioning in Adult Critical Care 2019
BJA Guidelines for the Management of Tracheal Intubation in Critically Ill Adults 2018
ICS Detection, Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Critically Ill Patients 2006
ICS Support for Staff Working in Exceptional Circumstances 2009 

NICE Guidance

NICE QS 158 - Rehabilitation after critical illness in adults
NICE CG51 - Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management
NICE NG148 - Acute Kidney injury: prevention detection and management
​NICE CG 83 - Rehabilitation after critical care in adults
NICE CG50 - Acute illness in adults in hospital: recognising and responding to deterioration
​​NICE CG 56 - Head injury: Triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults
NICE - Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for acute heart failure in adults
NICE CG 135 - Organ donation for transplantation: improving donor identification and consent rates for deceased organ donation

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