Intensive Care Network Podcasts

At the inaugural Victorian Intensive Care Network (VIN) meeting, Vin Pellegrino gave and outstanding talk. Vin is a renounded and popular Senior Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred Hospital and head of the ECMO Clinical Service.  He has had a lead role in the development of the world leading ECMO service at The Alfred since 2003. His other interests are in circulatory physiology and control of the circulation. Vin gives a fascinating and original insight into haemodynamic physiology relevant to critical care. Listen to it here and go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com to get the slides.

Paul Young discusses the history of our interpretation of fever in sepsis and why it may not be a bad thing. We talk about the upcoming HEAT trial which hopes to take us one step closer to seeing whether paracetamol is a beneficial treatment in sepsis. More information is here (http://www.anzics.com.au/ctg/current-research/255-heat) and on www.intensivecarenetwork.com.

An exellent talk by a radiologist, Nivene Saad, on how to interpret MRI in the critical care setting. Also from last year's Bedside Critical Care conference (http://www.criticalcareevents.com.au/). Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com to get the slides.

Listen to Professor John Myburgh's fantastic lecture on one of the hottist topics in critical care right now: Fluid Therapy. 

Pierre Janin is a French Intensivist with an interest in all things ultra sound. Listen to his marvellous talk on the use of transcranial doppler in critical care. Please excuse the fantastic, but racially stereotyping Serge Gainsbourg backing track...

Paul Goldrick, the famous and much loved intensivist from Darwin, gives an excellent summary of prone ventilation and pulmonary vasodilators. This was recorded at the 2011 Bedside Criticsal Care conference. The slides to go with this presentation are available here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9vT1_AbNNQSVGRneWZFRDZ4Z3c

Dr Priya Nair is a leading expert on the intensive care of transplant recipients. This excellent talk was recorded at the Sydney Intensive Care Network meeting at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney on 03 05 12. The slides are available to download here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9vT1_AbNNQSNEtuMFNZN1dzT2c and at www.intensivecarenetwork.com. Information about the bedside critical care conference can be found here: http://intensivecarenetwork.com/index.php/icn-activities/other-critical-care-events/282-the-ultimate-conference

An introduction to cardiothoracic ICU. In this 30 minute interview with Heather Low, an intensivist with an interest in CT ICU, we cover a few topics of interest to those who are new to, or want to know more about cardiothoracic intensive care. We discuss what to look out for at the hand over, high risk patients, complications of cardiopulmonary bypass, the hypotensive patient, the patient with a low cardiac index, arrhythmias and intra-aortic balloon pumps.

A summary of where we're up to with glucose control in critically ill patients in 2012, with a look back through the literature of the last decade. A full text article and all the references can be found for free here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1445-5994.2011.02631.x/pdf

Marianne Chapman is a highly accomplished academic intensivist. She gives a very practical talk on how they actually manange the controversial areas of nutrition at the Royal Adelaide Hospital

Here is the talk and presentation I gave at the 2012 ANZICS CTG meeting in Noosa about a planned trial called ALISAH II. It's a phase III clinical trial investigating concentrated albumin to treat patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage. It currently in the planning phase with a grant application pending.

This is the first of three podcasts on nutrition in ICU, this time by Professor Michael O'Leary. Michael was given the topic "TPN is so boring" - see what you think... The slides are here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9vT1_AbNNQSTTdVRDFzRHlRdHU5dzB2SjFiTDNhZw

Hergen gives a great no-nonsense spiel on right heart failure. The slides can be watched and downloaded here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9vT1_AbNNQSMzEzMjc5YWItODJhOS00NjlmLWJkZGQtMmZhNWQyMGM5ODQ4

Celia Bradford gives a brief and superb summary of contrast induced nephropathy. The Prezi presentation she refers to can be found here: http://prezi.com/t79w4fwm1i_u/renal-protection-should-i-care/ Thanks for all the following for the podcasts - please subscribe on iTunes and leave feedback!

Anthony Holley, an ED physician and Intensivist from Brisbane, discusses the ever popular and controversial topic of Goal Directed Therapy. It's case based, up to date and he's a charismatic speaker.

Craig Hore uses a case to frame a discussion about emergency pacing with both transcutaneous and transvenous methods covered.

Ray Raper briefly summarises his view of PEEP and pressure volume loops. The slides to go with this presentation are available on www.intensivecarenetwork.com

A brief introduction to a forthcoming series of podcasts recorded at Roger Harris' Bedside Critical Care Conference, 2011. Roger Harris explains what Kingscliff is all about, who it is for, why it's so good and about his love of disco and didgeridoo.

David Collins gives an excellent presentation on high frequency oscillatory ventilation. The video to accompany this is available here: http://vimeo.com/26915224

Try to work out what your differential would be and how you would investigate and manage this case.