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I'm Luke and I am a physiotherapist working with a background of working in Critical Care in the North East of England. My role has recently developed and now sees me working in Emergency Medicine. While working in Critical Care I was extremely lucky to work with a really supportive, specialist and dynamic team where everyone has our patients at the centre of everything we do.

The work I do as a physiotherapist in critical care can be super diverse, from ensuring we are achieving the best possible modes of ventilation, managing acute respiratory deteriorations, clearing secretion and strengthening patients respiratory muscles, to starting the full rehabilitation process earlier. Giving our patients the best opportunity to regain their strength and get back to what means most to them.

In April 2024 a small team and I will be taking part in a Ski Mountaineering Challenge which is considered to be one of the toughest courses in the world, the Patrouille des Glaciers covers a 57.5 km route at altitudes of up to 3,650 metres between Zermatt and Verbier. We are completing the route over four days, and I am looking for individual and corporate sponsors to enable the team to raise funds (a combined total of at least £25k between the 6 of us - all of which goes right to the ICSs Thriving at Work project).

The challenge it's self is partly self funded with the help of an external sponsor, so everything you donate goes completely to the ICS 🙏

The Thriving at Work Project is set to help provide wellbeing support for staff working in intensive care, you can find more about this at https://ics.ac.uk/thrive.html.

The PDG course is described as one of the toughest of its kind in the world and for good reason. Over the course of the tour the team will face the very real risk of the mountains, managing changing snow conditions, the hazards of glacier crossing and avoiding crevasses, freezing temperatures and everything associated with being at high altitude.

If you are able to support me, my team, the ICS and inevitably healthcare professionals such as Physiotherapists, Nurses, Doctors, Pharmacists, Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist and all other staff working in intensive care accros the country then please donate.

You can keep up to date with our progress on here, as well as my social media.

Twitter: @LukeStevens_93

Instagram: @justpassingthrough_93

THANK YOU!