Lyvonne Tume is Professor of Critical Care Nursing at Edge Hill University and Director of the Clinical Research Development Programme at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool.

She is an Associate Editor for Nursing in Critical Care and on the editorial board for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and the Journal of Parental and Enteral Nutrition. She is an intensive care nurse with over 35 years’ experience in Australia and in the UK. She has over 165 peer reviewed publications and has held several NIHR research grants. She is currently the chief investigator for an NIHR HTA-funded multicentre trial of no routine gastric residual volume measurement to guide enteral feeding in critically ill children (GASTRIC-PICU). She has been on several UK NIHR and European funding panels, and is now on the NIHR International trials funding panel.

Her research interests focus mainly on improving nutrition in critically ill children, particularly around enteral feeding, but she also focuses on respiratory critical care: making endotracheal suctioning safer, weaning mechanical ventilation, and preventing extubation failure, and is committed to implementing research evidence into clinical practice.

Her research takes an ‘critical care across the lifespan’ approach with work in neonatal, paediatric, and adult intensive care. She is a visiting professor for the School of Health Sciences in Geneva and is a member of two European funding panels. She was previously the Nursing president for the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) and is currently the elected chair of the ESPNIC Nutrition section and the deputy chair of the Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group (PCCS-SG) and a member of the NIHR PCCS Research Incubator.

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