Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
PRAVEEN KATHIRVASAN Intensive care units (ICU) have been critical for treating those severely ill with COVID-19. This branch of medicine deals with the process of temporarily supporting and replacing the function of multiple organ systems during serious illness and trauma. The first intensive care unit in Europe was set up by Bjørn Ibsen, an anaesthetist whose experimental form of positive pressure ventilation was pivotal in the intervention of the 1952 poliomyelitis epidemic in Copenhagen. Today, intensive care is considered a stand-alone speciality with the establishment of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in 2010.