Intensive Care Network Podcasts

HIV and ICU: the second ICN NZ talk from New Zealand's premier infectious diseases and HIV guru. He is consistently voted by the Auckland Uni Med students as their favourite teacher. Recorded live in Auckland, NZ.

Anthony Brown shares as an editor, the basics and tools of writing you need to use to maximise the c hances of your paper being published. This is a fantastic learning resource and comes neatly packaged within 15 minutes! The talk compliments Michelle Johnston's previous talk on The Artful Arrangment of Words. It was recorded at smaccGOLD's Creative Workshop.

Michelle Johnston, ED physician and author talks about the majesty in writing and how we can improve our skills. She brings us back to the often overlooked basics on the english language and how we can harness them to create a call to action, assert our research more clearly or simply improve everyday writing. This talk was recorded at the smaccGOLD Get Creative/Express Yourself workshop. This Get Creative: The Art of Communication workshop will be held again with new and exciting material at smaccUS this June. Don't forget to register/add on to your registration.  http://www.smacc.net.au/program/workshops/

John Myburgh takes us through 200 years of fluids therapy in critical care in one powerful presentation. He discusses the essential moments from history that changed the way we practice today and puts this long an bizarre story into context. He covers the key aspects of relevant physiology and, inspired by Kipling, the what, where, when, how, why and whom of this intervention that has become synonymous with critical care. He tackles starch controversies with his unique perspective on the subject, as well as the very topical chloride debate and the upcoming SPLIT trial. Best watched with John's superb slide deck. WARNING: this may leave you questioning something you prescribe every day and feeling disturbed that something you assumed to be simple and sorted is far from it. Other talks from John Myburgh include: Beta Blocker and Sepsis Fluid Resuscitation 2013 Decompressive Craniectomy   Catecholamines, resuscitation & resurrection

Day and Olusanya discuss key articles from the July 2014 edition of JICS (Journal of the Intensive Care Society). These include: management of diabetic ketoacidosis, a review on oxygen therapy and a look into ECHO in diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.This journal is open access and can be found here: http://inc.sagepub.com/content/15/3.toc

Prof. Darren Heyland speaks to Dr David Gary and Dr James Day about Critical Care Nutrition. He discusses the PEP UP protocol for enteral feeding and the NUTRIC Score for identifying patients that may benefit from agressive nutrition therapy. This talk was first posted on www.intensivecarenetwork.com

Olusanya and Day are back with an interesting interview with Ron Daniels, the head of the UK Sepsis Trust. Daniels discusses the worldwide effort towards working for greater recognition and earlier treatment of sepsis. World Sepsis Day 2015 is on September 13th. For references of this talk and more information check out our post on www.intensivecarenetwork.com

Shay McGuinness talks about what ECMO is, the history of its use in New Zealand and how their ECMO retrieval system works there. This was recorded live at the inaugural ICN NZ meeting, with support from ANZICS NZ. 

This podcast was recorded backstage at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting in January 2015 at the Galgorm Resort in Northern Ireland. The meeting is hosted annually by Rob Mac Sweeney, the creator and curator of the awesome Critical Care Reviews website. The intro and outro track is from Spiedkiks "Take off your make up", a creative commons free music download.

Day and Olusanya present many interesting articles from the Journal of the Intensive Care Society. They discuss a case of coagulopathy on novel anticoagulants,  riginal research on use of automatic acceptance criteria to improve patient transfers. and intensive care follow up of UK military casualties. All the articles are #FOAMed and can be accessed from: http://inc.sagepub.com/content/15/2.toc

Hergen Buscher gives you an update on what's new and happening in ECMO. Hergen has been working with ECMO for over a decade gives a great talk on this ever evolving field. If you are working with or will work with ECMO, this talk is essential listening. His superb slides are available on www.intensivecarenetwork.com.

Want to know how you can be useful when the call goes out to join the "other" Mile-High Club? Dr Ian Hosegood is the medical director for a major international airline, and has extensive experience with pre-hospital care. In part two of this entertaining talk, he discusses the policies and training of airline staff, how medically qualified volunteers can be useful, and might even touch on how to get an upgrade...

David Gattas gives an update on today's go-to anti-coagulant for renal replacement therapy. David is an ANZICS CTG power player, with a growing list of publications and was involved in the RENAL and POST-RENAL studies. This was recorded live at an ICN NSW / ANZICS meeting in September 2014.

Associate Professor Dave Pilcher is an Intensive Care Specialist at the Alfred Hospital and chair of the ANZICS Centre for Outcomes and Resource Evaluation (CORE) and an Associate Professor with the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine at Monash University. He talks at our August 2014 educational meeting on the improving mortality in Australasia from sepsis and discusses some of the reasons for it.

A google hangout discussing the latest study on Early Goal Directed Therapy - ARISE. Featuring Anthony Delaney, Simon Carley, Segun Olusanya, James Day, Minh Le Cong, Jonathan Downham and Oli Flower.

When does age transition from being an asset to a liability? Segun Olusanya and James Day interview Chris Thorpe on the intriguing question of whether increasing retirement age of ICU consultants affects personal health and patient safety.

Karin Amrein is the lead author of the VITdAL-ICU trial that was just published in JAMA. Hear her real take on the results, implications and how she did it with two young kids.

THE ARISE STUDY: ARISEN Anthony Delaney is a lead PI for the recently published ARISE study Listen to his take on ARISE and: The clinical bottom line Why it was a feat in itself pulling off such a study What is true dogmalysis The future for sepsis studies His take on EMCrit's Scott Weingart's interpretation His responses to EMCrit listener's comments Above all, the take home points are in line with Scott's: Give the right antibiotics early Get source control ASAP Be careful at intubation Give the right amount of fluid for your patient (I know...) Early judicious use of vasopressors Admit the patient to an appropriately monitored area

Sepsis kills thousands every year. Finfer discusses what sepsis is and we can improve the morbidity and mortality from this familiar but enigmatic foe. See www.intensivecarenetwork.com for more...