This year’s campaign will focus on the theme “The state of the PICU(s) regionally”
The World PICU Awareness Week Committee exists to raise awareness about #PedsICU in general and any important themes impacting the specialty by engaging members and key stakeholders in awareness and advocacy activities at a global and regional level. This 7 day event culminates in World PICU Awareness Day on the 2nd Friday of May, annually.
This year’s campaign will focus on the theme “The state of the PICU(s) regionally”
World PICU Awareness Week 2021 celebrates the strength, diversity, and collaboration of paediatric intensive care professionals around the globe. Through regionally led webinars and discussions, each focusing on the state of the PICU in their part of the world, the initiative aims to highlight shared challenges, showcase local innovations, and promote global learning. The week culminates in World PICU Day, organized by WFPICCS, uniting all regions in reflection and dialogue on the evolving future of paediatric critical care.
By sharing experiences from every region - from high-resource to resource-limited settings - participants discover how collective knowledge can improve outcomes and inspire innovation at the bedside.
Each webinar underlines how physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and families together shape the quality and humanity of care in the PICU.
Highlighting regional realities and celebrating global unity raises visibility for paediatric critical care, advancing advocacy, education, and research across all corners of the world
Title: A day in the life in the PICU – a North American perspective
Objective: To highlight the multi-disciplinary nature of our respective PICUs by having colleagues from different disciplines discuss their role in the PICU and reflect on the question of what is made possible for our patients through collaboration
Title: PICUs in Latin America
Moderators: Werther Brunow Carvalho and Pietro Pietroboni
Title: From Outback to Critical Care
The team from Oceania present the challenges faced in supporting paediatric critical services across the diverse state of Queensland. They look at the changes in culture within PICU and the positive impact on children, families and the workforce and then look to the future in team working. This is translated into the current collaborative global research being undertaken and lessons learnt are shared.
Presentations – Speakers
Title: Critical Care Diversity in Africa – Building capacity
Presentations – Speakers
Title: Current state of PICUs in Asia: learning from the past and embracing the future
Introduction and inauguration of the ‘World PICU awareness week 2021’ to the audience – live by the committee members.
Theme: Extending the boundaries of multi-disciplinary research through collaboration
Objective: Focusing on critical care research, we will discuss what people do in different areas within our regions. More specifically, we will be looking at how research can be encouraged and streamlined and how we can collaborate across disciplines and continents.
Welcome and opening by WFPICCS President, Satoshi Nakagawa; WFPICCS President-elect, Brenda Morrow; WFPICCS Vice President Nursing & World PICU Awareness Week Committee Co-Chair Ann-Marie and World PICU Awareness Week Committee Co-Chair, Luca Tortorolo.
Three (3) interdisciplinary reps from each region will be asked the same three (3) questions: