OBITUARIES
Ian Jacobs Ian George Jacobs, who has died at the age of 56, made a major contribution to the science of resuscitation and resuscitation medicine. Born in Sydney, Australia, he joined St John Ambulance as a teenage cadet. Shortly before his death, he was admitted to the Order of St John in the grade of officer. Ian trained as a nurse at the Western Australian School of Nursing, joining St John Ambulance as a paramedic in 1979. Three years later, he moved back to hospital nursing and worked for the next ten years in A&E and intensive care. He lectured in nursing and wrote an influential PhD thesis, ‘The contribution of ambulance services to the fall in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Perth’. Ian was the clinical services director for the ambulance service in Western Australia, chair of the Australian Resuscitation Council and co-chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. He was also Winthrop professor of resuscitation and pre-hospital care at the University of Western Australia. He published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and led several key studies into resuscitation, notably as chief
Deborah Bone
1963-2014 Champion of young people’s health and friend of Jarvis Cocker who died hours after being made an MBE Mental health nurse Deborah Louise Bone MBE was the subject of the Pulp song, Disco 2000, written by her close friend Jarvis Cocker. She was born in Sheffield, where her mother was friends with Jarvis’s mother. When she was ten, the family moved to Letchworth in Hertfordshire, but she and Jarvis remained friends. In Disco 2000, released in 1995, Jarvis sang: ‘Our mothers said we could
1958-2014 Nurse, paramedic, researcher and professor who advanced the theory and practice of resuscitation
investigator for the PACA trial, the first placebo-controlled trial of adrenaline in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He also led the introduction of the Resuscitation Council (UK) ALS course be sister and brother. Your name is Deborah. Deborah. It never suited ya.’ Jarvis performed the song at her 50th birthday party. Shortly before she died of multiple myeloma, Deborah, a mental health nurse at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, was made an MBE for services to children and young people. She died at home on December 30, the day her honour was announced. She was 51. Deborah qualified as a mental health nurse, eventually working for the Hertfordshire trust as a service manager for early intervention and adolescent mental health. While there, she set up the Step 2 health service for young people
into Australia and contributed to the evaluation of the e-ALS modules. Paying tribute to Ian’s life and work, his friend Vinay Nadkarni, associate professor of anaesthesiology and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania, said the diversity of Ian’s experiences as a nurse, paramedic, academic researcher and administrator enabled him to bring people together. In an obituary in The Lancet, the author and broadcaster Geoff Watts wrote: ‘In an enterprise dominated by doctors, what he brought to the councils and advisory bodies that oversee resuscitation science was a different set of experiences and a different set of perspectives.’ Ian was at work on a Friday evening when he died. He was working with colleagues in the ambulance service attending a young victim of traumatic cardiac arrest when he collapsed at the Royal Perth Hospital with a massive intracerebral haemorrhage from which he did not recover. He leaves his wife Judith Finn, a fellow resuscitation researcher, and their family. Roger Evans is assistant editor, Nursing Standard and created BrainBox, a resource for improving the emotional and mental wellbeing of adults and children. She co-created the award-winning Bright Stars programme used in primary schools in Hertfordshire to combat anxiety. In the 2011 Nursing Standard’s Nurse Awards, Deborah’s Step 2 team won in the category of mental health: innovation with patient involvement in recovery planning. At the awards, Deborah was delighted to hear the judges praise her team for working to ‘lessen the stigma attached to mental health services for young people’. Deborah is survived by her husband Colin, two daughters and a grandson. Roger Evans
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Ian Jacobs Ian George Jacobs, who has died at the age of 56, made a major contribution to the science of resuscitation and resuscitation medicine. Born in Sydney, Australia, he joined St John Ambulance as a teenage cadet. Shortly before his death, he was admitted to the Order of St John in the grade of officer. Ian trained as a nurse at the Western Australian School of Nursing, joining St John Ambulance as a paramedic in 1979. Three years later, he moved back to hospital nursing and worked for the next ten years in A&E and intensive care. He lectured in nursing and wrote an influential PhD thesis, ‘The contribution of ambulance services to the fall in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Perth’. Ian was the clinical services director for the ambulance service in Western Australia, chair of the Australian Resuscitation Council and co-chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. He was also Winthrop professor of resuscitation and pre-hospital care at the University of Western Australia. He published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and led several key studies into resuscitation, notably as chief
Deborah Bone
1963-2014 Champion of young people’s health and friend of Jarvis Cocker who died hours after being made an MBE Mental health nurse Deborah Louise Bone MBE was the subject of the Pulp song, Disco 2000, written by her close friend Jarvis Cocker. She was born in Sheffield, where her mother was friends with Jarvis’s mother. When she was ten, the family moved to Letchworth in Hertfordshire, but she and Jarvis remained friends. In Disco 2000, released in 1995, Jarvis sang: ‘Our mothers said we could
1958-2014 Nurse, paramedic, researcher and professor who advanced the theory and practice of resuscitation
investigator for the PACA trial, the first placebo-controlled trial of adrenaline in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He also led the introduction of the Resuscitation Council (UK) ALS course be sister and brother. Your name is Deborah. Deborah. It never suited ya.’ Jarvis performed the song at her 50th birthday party. Shortly before she died of multiple myeloma, Deborah, a mental health nurse at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, was made an MBE for services to children and young people. She died at home on December 30, the day her honour was announced. She was 51. Deborah qualified as a mental health nurse, eventually working for the Hertfordshire trust as a service manager for early intervention and adolescent mental health. While there, she set up the Step 2 health service for young people
into Australia and contributed to the evaluation of the e-ALS modules. Paying tribute to Ian’s life and work, his friend Vinay Nadkarni, associate professor of anaesthesiology and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania, said the diversity of Ian’s experiences as a nurse, paramedic, academic researcher and administrator enabled him to bring people together. In an obituary in The Lancet, the author and broadcaster Geoff Watts wrote: ‘In an enterprise dominated by doctors, what he brought to the councils and advisory bodies that oversee resuscitation science was a different set of experiences and a different set of perspectives.’ Ian was at work on a Friday evening when he died. He was working with colleagues in the ambulance service attending a young victim of traumatic cardiac arrest when he collapsed at the Royal Perth Hospital with a massive intracerebral haemorrhage from which he did not recover. He leaves his wife Judith Finn, a fellow resuscitation researcher, and their family. Roger Evans is assistant editor, Nursing Standard and created BrainBox, a resource for improving the emotional and mental wellbeing of adults and children. She co-created the award-winning Bright Stars programme used in primary schools in Hertfordshire to combat anxiety. In the 2011 Nursing Standard’s Nurse Awards, Deborah’s Step 2 team won in the category of mental health: innovation with patient involvement in recovery planning. At the awards, Deborah was delighted to hear the judges praise her team for working to ‘lessen the stigma attached to mental health services for young people’. Deborah is survived by her husband Colin, two daughters and a grandson. Roger Evans
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