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The Intensive Care Foundation is committed to advancing critical care through high-quality research. Our research and education grants have supported groundbreaking studies that improve patient outcomes, enhance ICU practices, and contribute to life-saving innovations.

On this page, you’ll find a collection of publications that have arisen from our funded research. These works highlight the impact of our grants in Australia and New Zealand, showcasing the dedication of researchers striving to improve survival and quality of life for critically ill patients.

CRISP (Cold tempeRatures In patients with SePsis) - Bianca Crichton

Bianca was awarded a ICF Research Grant in 2024. Bianca is the Principal Investigator of the CRISP (Cold tempeRatures In patients with SePsis) inception cohort study, formally known as "Temperature profiles in adult intensive care unit patients treated for infection in a tertiary intensive care unit: A single-centre prospective observational cohort study". 

Critical Care and Resuscitation, 27(4)pp 466-468.
Crichton, B., Eathorne, A., Coombes, J., Edwards, C.,  Falleni, P. M., Laupland, K. B., Mackle, D. M., Saxena, M., Smeed-Tauroa, J., White, K. W & Young, P. J. 2025

Health New Zealand - Admission to critical care video
Tracy Klap, a 2024 Education Grant recipient, has developed a national information video titled Admission to Critical Care as part of her Nau Mai/Welcome video project. This resource is now live and already being used in critical care units across New Zealand.
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group point prevalence program, 2009-2016.

Crit Care Resusc, 19(1), pp 88-93.
Thompson, K., Hammond, N., Eastwood, G., Festa, M., Glass, P., Rajbhandari, D., Seppelt, I., Taylor, C., Watts, N. & Myburgh, J. 2017.

Resuscitation fluid use in Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Units between 2007 and 2013.

Intensive Care Med, 41(9), pp 1611-9.
Hammond, N. E., Taylor, C., Saxena, M., Liu, B., Finfer, S., Glass, P., Seppelt, I., Willenberg, L. & Myburgh, J. 2015.

Communication status in adult intensive care patients: A multicentre, binational point prevalence study.

Australian Critical Care, 35, S9.
Freeman-Sanderson, D. A., Hemsley, P. B., Thompson, D. K., Rogers, A. P. K., Knowles, D. S. & Hammond, A. P. N. 2022

Patient comfort in the intensive care unit: a multicentre, binational point prevalence study of analgesia, sedation and delirium management.

Anaesth Intensive Care, 39(5), pp 926-35.
K. M., Burrell, A. R., Elliott, D., Webb, S. A., Seppelt, I. M., Taylor, C. & Glass, P. 2011.

Compliance with processes of care in intensive care units in Australia and New Zealand--a point prevalence study.

Hewson-Conroy, K. M., Burrell, A. R., Elliott, D., Webb, S. A., Seppelt, I. M., Taylor, C. & Glass, P. 2011

Machine learning to predict poor school performance in paediatric survivors of intensive care: a population-based cohort study.
 Gilholm P, Gibbons K, Brüningk S, Klatt J, Vaithianathan R, Long D, Millar J, Tomaszewski W, Schlapbach LJ; Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcomes & Resource Evaluation (CORE) and ANZICS Paediatric Study Group (ANZICS PSG).
Population pharmacokinetics of piperacillin-tazobactam in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of critically ill patients.
Kumta N, Heffernan AJ, Cotta MO, Liu X, Parker S, Wallis S, Livermore A, Starr T, Wong WT, Joynt GM, Lipman J, Roberts JA.
Grant winner 2023 - Josh McLarty

Josh was a recipient of a grant from the Intensive Care Foundation in 2023.  Josh and his team have used the grant to create animated and education videos aimed at early career intensive care staff across all disciplines in ICU.

You can see these videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@alfredicu8359