Intensive Care Network Podcasts

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan Assume nothing, trust no one, give oxygen. – Anon Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science podcast series. In case you haven’t being paying attention, science is cool. Indulge your inner geek by joining us on our pursuit of developing an integrated scientific understanding from which you can develop a clinical practice informed by deeper insights and inoculation against magical thinking. We are going to take an unashamedly convoluted journey from atmospheric gas to the mitochondria and back again, to examine respiratory physiology and hopefully frame the information in a format that helps you on your inexorable march to examination success. Have you ever asked yourself what is all the fuss about oxygen? In the first two podcasts we are going to address why oxygen is the foundational slab of our hierarchy of needs and how it got here in the first place. It might just give you a renewed appreciation of nature’s most vital pharmaceutical. We would love to hear feedback and