• Contamination of pulse oximeter probes before and after decontamination 
• Early identification and referral of organ donors in private hospitals 
• High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in a tertiary paediatric ICU 
• Outcomes of patients admitted to the ICU for complications of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy 
• Time taken to perform a rapid sequence intubation in a simulated prehospital environment

• 2019 Critical Care Congress Abstracts 

• Artesunate compared with quinine for the treatment of severe malaria in adult patients 

• Tracheal tube cuff pressure monitoring: Assessing current practice in critically ill patients 

• Developing a theory of family care during critical illness 

• An unexpected acute coronary syndrome

• There’s more to weaning than just the lungs! 

• Family-centred care in the intensive care units 

• Parental satisfaction with the quality of care in a SA PICU 

• Characteristics, course and outcomes of children after cardiac arrest 

• Muscle strength and endurance to predict successful extubation in mechanically ventilated patients 

• Family - centred practices of health care professionals in three emergency departments in KZN

• Sepsis – follow the guidelines 

• Novel adjunctive therapies in the treatment of sepsis: A review 

• Early mobilisation practices of Zimbabwean ICU patients 

• Infection control challenges faced by ICU managers 

• Reliability of ultrasonic diaphragm thickness measurement 

• Abstracts of the CCSSA 2018 Congress

• Antimicrobial usage in Trinidad, West Indies
• Role of the ICU nurse in antimicrobial stewardship
• Nurses᾽ knowledge about and attitudes toward organ donation in SA
• Care practices of emergency nurses in SA
• Abstracts of the CCSSA 2017 Congress

• Glucose control 

• Arterial line damping 

• Abdominal hypertension 

• Obstetrics in the ICU 

• Nursing DNR patients 

• Contaminated nebulisers

• The needs of families of ICU patients
• Implementing evidence-based guidelines
• Critical care nursing practices in Rwanda
• Critical care transfers – scope of practice
• Blood storage during helicopter missions

• Physiotherapy in ICU

• Reducing paediatric VAP

• Vitamin C in septic shock

• Thrombocytopenia

• Abstracts – 2016 Critical Care Congress

• Ethical research in the ICU
• Moral distress of ICU nurses
• Nutrition practices in SA ICUs
• Colistin for VAP
• Recognising stroke

• H1N1 in the paediatric ICU 
• Obstetric patient outcome in ICU 
• Microbial resistance patterns in a secondary centre 
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia prevalence in KZN 
• Verifying endotracheal tube placement

• Endotracheal tube cuff pressures

• Pharmaceutical care in the ICU

• Dysmagnesaemia in trauma

• Cultural competence of critical care nurses

• Fluid balance recording

• Visitors in the intensive care unit
• Knowledge of intensive care nurses
• The effect of normal saline instillation on cardiorespiratory parameters in
• intubated cardiothoracic patients
• Comparison of Intellivent-ASV with conventional ASV and SIMV modes

• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in South Africa

• Gut dysfunction in the critically ill − mechanisms and clinical implications

• Impact of antioxidant supplementation on clinical outcomes in the critically ill

• Ethical dilemmas facing intensivists in South Africa in the admission of patients with HIV infection requiring intensive care