Intensive Care Network Podcasts

Simon Finfer is a leading critical care clinical researcher. Hear his candid talk on the reality of research and publication and why it's relevant to you! Go to Intensive Care Network for the slides, videos and more.

Stan Yastrebov is an echo guru and an ICU professor of echo at St George hospital in Sydney. In this talk that he gave at an ICN NSW meeting last month he goes through the nuts and bolts of haemodynamic assessment with echo. Whether you're a novice or a regular echo user in crit care, this talk has something for you. Echo talks can be a bit boring but Stan's energy and enthusiasm really come across and his accent was one reason trainees came from all over Sydney to hear this talk.

Nicola Stanley describes how ultrasound has changed the way we do critical care procedures and in the video, shows you a few new tricks.

It's only two months until the Bedside Critical Care Conference, and this year is looking like a cracker! We're going back to tropical Cairns for the crit care conference with a difference – small, friendly and packed with superb practical crit care education. After popular demand we’re going back to beautiful Queensland in the September/October school holidays. Come to the gateway of the Great Barrier Reef at the perfect time of year, where you’re guaranteed to have a great time, whether you’re there with your family or you’re there for an adventure and a party. Or both. The program this year is all new but follows the popular format of short, practical lectures on clinically relevant crit care topics, and small group workshops with experts teaching you what's not in the books. The Intensive Care Network registrar's day is on the Monday, at a massively discounted rate and has some great bread and butter talks. These include talks on fluids, sedation, nutrition, airways, ECMO and advanced ventilation. On the

Sam Radford and Julian Van Dyke will help keep you ever-ready in and out of ICU with their talk on simulations and debriefing. This podcast was recorded at the July Victorian Intensive Care Network meeting.

  Li Tan is an Intensivist and Echo Fellow at St George hospital in Sydney. She has a particular interest in critical care echocardiography and in this talk describes how useful it can be when investigating obstructive shock.

Out of hours (OOH) care remains a challenge in all medical specialties round the world. Day and Olusanya interview Owen Roodenburg from the Royal Alfred, Melbourne, about an innovative approach to managing OOH care in hospitals. This new programme directly addresses many of the issues with night time staff cover and allows selected trainees to obtain a Certificate of Clinical Leadership centred around experience, exposure, and education. ICU as the centre of the hospital of the future? Listen to hear more!You can read the article published in JICS here: O’Leary R, Strange J, McKimm A, Gantner D, McClure J, Roodenburg O. ICU should improve the night-time hospital. JICS October 2013; 14, 4: 284-287 (free full text at http://journal.ics.ac.uk/pdf/1404284.pdf )

  Cartan Costello is an Intensivist from St George hospital in Sydney. He has a particular interest in critical care echocardiography and in this talk describes how useful it can be for trauma patients. Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for the slides and video.

1.6 million people are on the Australian Organ Donation Registry. How do you approach organ donation with your patients? Steve Philpot speaks at the May VIN meeting about how we can better facilitate organ donation and about the usefulness of the donation registry.

Rupert Pearse discusses the importance of results from the OPTIMISE trial to improve perioperative patient management.

Gerard Fennessy interviews Associate Professor Daryl Jones (Austin Hospital, Melbourne) on Medical Emergency Teams. They discuss how such Rapid Response Teams have developed across the globe and how they have improved critical care delivery.

  Gordon Flynn is an Intensivist and an Anaesthetist from Prince of Wales hospital in Sydney. Here he gives an entertaining and thought provoking talk on the big topic of obesity in ICU. Leave comments below on ICN!

John Botha discusses renal failure at the VIN April meeting.

David Bihari is an Intensivist from Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. He is particularly interested and passionate about nutrition in the critically ill, and has been involved in research in this area for many years.

Check out what's new in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society with James Day and Segun Olusanya. They discuss new research on futility of care, nurse led tracheostomy weaning and concerns with work-related health problems for ICU staff.

Ravi Tiruvopati discusses hypercapnia in ICU patients, particularly for those with severe respiratory failure. This podcast was recorded during a VIN meeting in January.

Stephen Warrillow speaks about liver failure at a VIN (Victorian Intensive Care Network) meeting.

Segun Olusanya and James Day interview Karim Brohi on his talk about coagulation in trauma. This interview was recorded during the State of the Art Conference in London earlier this year. Brohi is the author of Trauma.org

Stephen Warrillow is an Intensivist from the Austin Hospital in Victoria.  Here he discusses the care of a liver transplant recipient in intensive care.

Tim Crozier is an Intensivist from Monash in Melbourne. Here he talks about Obstetric morbidity for the Intensivist.   This was recorded live at a ICN Victoria meeting.