Physiotherapy Provision and Practice: An EuropeAn Intensive CarE Unit (ICU) Survey (PEAiCE).
 
The purpose of this research is to investigate current provision  and practice of physiotherapy within Intensive care units in European countries.
The research project is being conducted by Dr Agnieszka Lewko (Coventry University), Dr David McWilliams (University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust), Dr Sabrina Eggmann (Bern University Hospital) and Dr Peter Nydahl (University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein). You have been selected to take part in this questionnaire survey because you are a physiotherapist or another member of the clinical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) team in one of the European countries. 

The research was granted ethical approval by Coventry University’s Research Ethics Committee – project code P136453.
For further information, or if you have any queries, please contact the lead researchers  Dr Agnieszka Lewko or Dr David McWilliams
If you have any concerns that cannot be resolved through the lead researcher, please contact the group

Thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey. Your help is very much appreciated.
Link to the survey

Good News for Critical Care Nurses in Europe: a new participating hospital in Germany - the University Hospital Tübingen - joined the club. Go to the Exchange Programe for more information

Hello, I am Ziga Vrhovnik, husband, father of two, working in University Clinical Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I am a registered nurse in ICU, for a short time I also worked as perfusionist in the cardio-vascular surgery department. As a team member of our department I work with critically ill mechanical ventilated patients. I have experience with mechanical assist devices such as ECMO, intra-aortic baloon pump and from this year also with Impella. I am part of ECMO educational group in our department. Working in three shifts is the biggest challenge for me to find enough time for family life. Ziga is the successor of Enej Loznar, who served as the Slovenian representative for the last two years.

Welcome Ziga - fare well and thank you for your participation, Enej.

The Portuguese Society of Critical Care Nurses (SPEDC) is a scientific, non-profit association, made up of Nurses, whose area of interest and/or professional activity is one of the following: Pre-hospital Emergency, Urgency and Intensive Care.
SPEDC's purpose is research, training and management in the area of health, more precisely in the field of Critically Ill Patients.
SPEDC will guide its internal activity by principles of solidarity between members, and its social and scientific activity by concerns of scientific rigor, professional ethics and deontology, as well as by a sense of service to the community, based on 5 major pillars: Innovation, Dissemination, Education, Training and Information.

Sónia Sousa represents SPEDC in the EfCCNa Council

Sónia is a Critical Care Specialist Nurse that has worked 15 years in the Emergency Room and has been in the Intensive Care in the last 6 years in Arrábida Local Health Unit, Setúbal. Since 2008 she also works has a pre-hospital Emergency nurse and has served 10 years in the Emergency Helicopter. Charge Nurse since 2012 and since 2023 she's the Vice-Chair on the Advisory and Scientific Board at Portuguese Society of Critical Care Nurses. She's got two post-graduation course , beside the specialist course and is currently a PhD student at Nova Medical School and Évora Universiy.