Lyvonne Tume

Lyvonne is Professor of Critical Care Nursing at Edge Hill University. She is the co-editor in chief of Nursing in Critical Care and on the editorial board for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and JPEN. She is an intensive care nurse with over 30 years’ experience both in Australia and in the UK and continues to maintain some clinical practice hours. She has over 150 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). Her research takes an ‘critical care across the lifespan’ approach with work in neonatal, paediatric, and adult intensive care. However, 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. 

 

She is also committed to implementing research evidence into clinical practice and is also increasingly interested in the de-adoption of low value clinical care practices, such as GRV. She is a visiting professor for the School of Health Sciences in Geneva and is a member of the NIHR HTA and a European funding panel. She was previously the Nursing president for the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care. She currently supervises 4 PhD students. She is on the scientific and education committee of the Paediatric Critical Care Society and the deputy chair of the Paediatric Critical Care Society Study group.