Edward Simon Palmer

University College London | UCL · Centre for Intensive Care Medicine

Rationale: There is conflicting evidence on harm related to exposure to supra-physiologic arterial oxygen tensions (hyperoxemia) in critically ill patients. Objectives: To examine the association between longitudinal exposure to hyperoxemia and mortality in patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in 5 UK University Hospitals. Methods:...

We conducted a 5‐year retrospective cohort study on women undergoing caesarean section to investigate factors influencing the operating room‐to‐incision interval. Time‐to‐event analysis was performed for category‐1 caesarean section using a Cox proportional hazards regression model. Covariates included: anaesthetic technique; body mass index; age;...

Objectives: To describe the epidemiology of sepsis in critical care by applying the Sepsis-3 criteria to electronic health records. Design: Retrospective cohort study using electronic health records. Setting: Ten ICUs from four U.K. National Health Service hospital trusts contributing to the National Institute for Health Research Critical Care...

The recent development of electronic logbooks with secure off‐device data storage provides a rich resource for research. We present the largest analysis of anaesthetic logbooks to date, with data from 494,235 cases logged by 964 anaesthetists over a 4‐year period. Our analysis describes and compares the annual case‐load and supervision levels of di...

( Anaesthesia . 2018;73:825–831) In the United Kingdom, cesarean deliveries (CD) are classified based on a system that defines the urgency of the surgery. A category 1 CD is one in which there is an immediate threat to the life of the mother or fetus while a category 4 CD has no urgency and can be done at a time convenient to the patient and obstet...

We present a year long quality improvement project to bring a new induction programme to the obstetrics and gynaecology (O&G) department of University Hospital Lewisham (UHL). Aimed at non-speciality junior doctors, including general practice and foundation trainees, the induction programme has sought to improve the quality of care delivered and ex...