The ICU Roof Garden Research
The ICU Research Program is called FRESHAIR. It aims to establish the optimal and safe way to use this complex intervention.
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The Team
This is our ICU Roof Garden Research Team
Dr Thomas Best
Clinical Director & Co-Investigator
Professor Nigel Dunnett
Professor of Planting Design and Vegetation Technology Co-Investigator, University of Sheffield; Co-investigator
Professor Louise Rose MBE
Professor of Critical Care Nursing & Head of Research Division (Applied Technologies in Clinical Care), Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College, London
Lina Christopoulou
Senior Manager-Transition & Digital including Outside Critical care Therapy Unit
Our preparations
Many years of efforts by the clinical team, our collaborators and our charity have gone into making the outside ICU a reality and enable our research
Green spaces & gardens in hospitals around the world
ICU gardens around the world
There are many incredible green spaces and gardens associated with critical care units around the UK and wider. These include a mixture of simple pragmatic designs and more complex installations. It is more common to construct ICU gardens at ground level in existing spaces, other designs are more complex. There are also now more ICU garden builds in roof garden settings.
