Carole Boulanger Editor

Carole Boulanger is a Consultant Nurse and Advanced Critical Care Practitioner at the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust UK.  She is the recent Chair of the Nursing & AHP Committee for ESICM leading on developments of nursing and AHP activity for the society. This includes not only educational provision but also ensuring that nursing and AHP contributions continue to expand as part of the fabric of the society as this reflects the way we deliver care to our patients.  Her primary focus is on high quality care delivery across occupational boundaries and advanced clinical practice in the Critical Care setting.
Dr David McWilliams is a Consultant Physiotherapist within critical care at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham which has the largest single location critical care unit in Europe. He is the chair of the physiotherapy working group for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). David was a member of the guideline development group for the NICE guideline ‘Critical Illness rehabilitation’ and subsequent quality standard on the same topic. He has extensive experience of research into both early and post ICU rehabilitation, with a number of publications in this area and regularly presents both nationally and internationally on the subject.