Staff

Looking after patients in Intensive Care is all about teamwork.

The team includes the following specialised in treating critically ill patients:

doctors
nurses with one specialist nurse for Post ICU recovery
family liaison practitioners
physician associates (PAs)
advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCPs)
psychologist
physiotherapists
dietitians
pharmacists
neuropsychiatrist

Other healthcare professionals at Guy's and St Thomas's support the ICU team:

radiographers
microbiologists
porters
domestic staff
administration staff
chaplaincy

Click on the following 'article' links below for more information about each healthcare team member

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Article: ICU Psychologist

ICU Psychologists Being unwell and in hospital needing critical care can be a stressful experience, whether you are with us for days, weeks or months. The environment can be very scary and the treatments that we need to offer to give people the best chance of getting better can be very unpleasant. When you are away from your family and friends, and are not in the comfort of your own home, it can make being unwell feel even worse. People often feel a range of unpleasant emotions....

Article: ICU Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs)

What does a Speech and Language Therapist do in intensive care? Speech and Language Therapists are trained in assessing and treating swallowing and communication problems arising from a range of different causes In intensive care, Speech and Language Therapists are also trained to help patients with a tracheostomy (breathing tube in the neck) breathe through the upper airway (nose, mouth, throat) again. Why might a patient need to see a Speech and Language Therapist during and after...

Article: ICU Technicians

ICU Technicians are responsible for the management of the medical devices used on the ICU, this includes monitors, pumps, ventilators, kidney machines, heart monitors, ultra-sound machines.

Article: Nurse specialist : Post ICU recovery

What does the Specialist Nurse in Post ICU Recovery do? This speicalist nurse works with patients who are recovering from critical illness, to support them and their families along their recovery journey. The Post ICU recovery service at GSTT aims to support patients with their transition from ICU to the wards and then eventually home, to help reduce the burden problems that patients recovering from critical illness can commonly experience. There are three main aspects to the work...

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