Intensive Care Network Podcasts

Daydd Thomas speaks at a recent SIN meeting about effective patient blood management. This is the second of two talks, with the first by Bruce Cartwright found here.

James Day and Segun Olusanya interview Dr Nicholas Barrett, a consultant in ICM at St Thomas' Hospital involved in the severe hypoxia service.

Oli Flower discusses the changing landscape of critical care education and what new media means in this context. Best listened to with slides. See Intensive Care Network for more.

Bruce Cartwright talks about methods of blood conservation for surgical patients.

Matt MacPartlin talks to Niklas Nielsen, the author of the recently published TTM trial, and Anders Aneman, one of the local site investigators about this game-changing study.

Dr Priya Nair is a senior intensive care specialist at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital and an expert in managing patients with cardiac assist devices. In this talk she takes us through the key issues encountered when on managing patients with left ventricular assist devices. As LVADs are becoming more widespread, this inside know-how is invaluable to all of us. They physiology and technology involved with these devices is pretty amazing.

Cardiologist and Associate Professor Chris Hayward talks at SIN. He broadens our understanding of mechanical cardiac assist devices and their use in clinical practice.

The UK intensivists Olusegun Olusanya and James Day are back to keep you up to date with recent literature including blood transfusions in intensive care, B2 agonists in ARDS and ICP monitoring for TBI. Their discussion is based around the July 2013 edition of the Journal of the Intensive Care Society (JICS). The articles mentioned are found at the following link: http://journal.ics.ac.uk/journal_article_detail.html

Matthew Mac Partlin talks about emergency airways access. Make sure you listen or watch this on www.intensivecarenetwork.com before Matthew's workshop on cricothyroidotomy at BCC Cairns!

This podcast is Michael Rose talking on anaphylaxis. Michael is an anaesthetist in Sydney and a leading expert in the world of anaphylaxis. He talks about the basics and recent developments in this field - an area of critical care relevant to us all. His website http://www.anzaag.com has many useful resources, including validated management algorithms that you can use use in your department.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at Westmead hospital recently on "Navigating the Ethics of Modern Medicine". Fitting for our 100th podcast, thei Great man talks about organ donation, his own experiences with healthcare in recent years, the history of medicine in Tibet and has advice for us all about how to treat our patients. A transcript is available here too. A classic!

Richard Levitan is widely regarded as the global master of the emergency airway.  And he's keynoting at SMACC GOLD. He was recently in Sydney, teaching on a cadaveric airways course with John Vassiliadis (of Simwars fame and mastermind behind EDWISE).  Rich talks about his global travels, his airways courses and his exciting new emergency surgical airway kit. John tells us about EDWISE, simulation and why he's pumped for SMACC GOLD. Harris provides entertainment whilst the hype for SMACC GOLD starts to swell.

Christine Bowles, an ED and trauma consultant, hosts a discussion on the controversial topic of clearing the C-Spine. The discussion involves Donovan Dwyer, (Emergency Physician), Andrew Cheng (Intensivist) and Anthony Morgan (Trauma Surgeon) and takes us from the front door of the emergency department to several days down the track in the ICU. 

James Day and Olusegun Olusanya interview Duncan Young, Director of Research for the UK Intensive Care Society about his work in the TracMan Trial. Young discusses the results of the trial as well as challenges with clinical trials and directions for future research. He also gives a few tips for young doctors looking to get involved with research. The recently published paper in JAMA on the TracMan trial is found here. JICS is the Journal of the Intensive Care Society and is in the process of becoming indexed on Medline.

James Day and Olusegun Olusanya interview Duncan Young from Oxford about his work and the High Frequency OSCillation in ARDS (OSCAR) Trial.

Alex Rosenberg is an intensivist with more of an obsession with all things cardiac, but his experience in a large neuro ICU made him well placed to discuss the interaction between cerebral perfusion pressure, vasopressors and cardiac output. This is an important neuro topic that is relevant to anyone who looks after patients with injured brains. This is sadly the last talk from BCC3, but don't get too depressed - you can always join us this year in Cairns, or wait for those talks to come out on ICN, and there's always the torrent of superb free media that is flowing out from the smacc conference.

Matthew MacParlin wraps up his TBI series by talking about prognostication as well as ICU management of neuroprophylaxis and seizure prophylaxis.

Always controversial, always entertaining, the fearsome but loveable Geordie Stuart Lane gives an excellent summary of a core ICU topic: managing out of hospital cardiac arrests. We're nearly at the end of the BCC3 series - and in only a month we're doing it all again, this time in tropical Cairns - come and join us.

Matthew MacPartlin continues his four part series on traumatic brain injury with a focus on how to manage these patients in ICU. See the intensivecarenetwork.com website for references and slides.

Matthew MacPartlin continues his series by discussing how to approach an ED admission of TBI. Useful references for this talk are found on the ICN website: www.intensivecarenetwork.com