Acute Right Heart Failure

Acute Right Heart Failure

The right ventricle is often overlooked in critical care in favour of the attention to the left side of the heart. But acute right heart failure is important and today on the podcast we discuss its implications for critical... read more

Antibiotics for the Critically Ill Patient

Antibiotics for the Critically Ill Patient

We spend a lot of time obsessing over the finer details of critical care: which fluid is best? which vasopressor is best? will another liter of fluid help? These details are important, but for a septic patient something... read more

Shock: Roadside to Resus

Shock: Roadside to Resus

If you're involved in the care of critically unwell patients then you will frequently encounter patients who are shocked. The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine defines shock as; "Life-threatening, generalized... read more

Nutrition in Surgery Podcast

Changing Care to Improve Surgical Outcomes. In this mini-series of six podcasts sponsored by Abbott Nutrition, the DCRI's Paul Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, welcomes distinguished scientists and clinicians from the U.S. and the U.K.... read more

Never Underestimate the Simple Things We Do To Our Patients

Never Underestimate the Simple Things We Do To Our Patients

In this compelling episode, Professor Paul Wischmeyer, shares some of his experiences as a patient in the ICU. Since he was 15 he has endured multiple hospitalizations and ICU stays for his inflammatory bowel disease. This... read more

Preventing Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

Preventing Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

Burnout and compassion fatigue can happen to any healthcare professional, and it can have a negative impact on patients and even your larger nursing career. Fortunately it's very preventable, as our guest this week will attest... read more

High Flow Nasal Oxygen for Acute Bronchiolitis?

High Flow Nasal Oxygen for Acute Bronchiolitis?

Since bronchiolitis is a clinical diagnosis, there is no test, including viral testing and radiography, which rules it in or out (Schuh et al 2007). Sadly, despite multiple guidelines (NICE, AAP, CPS), there has also been... read more

Hospital Variation in Risk-Adjusted Pediatric Sepsis Mortality

Hospital Variation in Risk-Adjusted Pediatric Sepsis Mortality

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Stefanie G. Ames, MD, about the article "Hospital Variation in Risk-Adjusted Pediatric Sepsis Mortality," published in the May 2018 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Ames... read more

It Makes No Difference – Glucocorticoids for the Treatment of Septic Shock

It Makes No Difference – Glucocorticoids for the Treatment of Septic Shock

The administration of a continuous infusion of hydrocortisone to a general population of patients in septic shock on mechanical ventilation cannot be recommended at this time. The authors conclusion that glucocorticoids do... read more

Finding Out What Matters to Our Patients

Finding Out What Matters to Our Patients

Do you spend time finding out what the "why" is for your patient? Have you considered it’s not what is the matter with the patient but what matters to the patient? What the patient thinks their purpose is? Or at the very... read more

AIRWAYS-2

AIRWAYS-2

AIRWAYS-2 looks at the initial advanced airway management strategy for paramedics attending out of hospital cardiac arrests, essentially whether or not the aim should be to place a supraglottic airway device or an endotracheal... read more

ICU Survivorship

ICU Survivorship

Dr Kimberley Haines, Vice Chair of ANZICS Victorian Branch and ICU Physio at Western Health joins Dan and Jane to discuss survival following ICU admissions.Dr Kimberley discusses her journey to research, what happens to patients... read more

Achieving Fluid Balance

Kyle Enfield, MD, speaks with Colin K. Grissom, MD, FCCM, and Matthew W. Semler, MD, about fluid management in the critically ill. Dr. Grissom presented his talk, entitled "Achieving Fluid Balance," at the 47th Critical Care... read more

Variability in Antibiotic Use Across PICUs

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Thomas V. Brogan, MD, about the article "Variability in Antibiotic Use Across PICUs," published in the June 2018 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Brogan discusses study... read more

Help! I Need Somebody

Help! I Need Somebody

It's not so easy - how do you ask neurosurgery at 4 in the morning to see your patient with subdural hematoma? Or when you have a really sick patient that you don't know what to do with, or a difficult airway but you're the... read more

Medications and RRT: We Know How to Dose, Right?

Dr. Fraser, MD, speaks with Bruce A. Mueller, PharmD, FCCP, FASN, about his talk presented at the 47th Critical Care Congress in San Antonio, Texas, entitled "Artificial Kidney Meets Mechanical Lung: Comanaging the Patient... read more

Low Tidal Volume Ventilation in ARDS

Low Tidal Volume Ventilation in ARDS

In this "Breathe Easy Critical Perspective" podcast, Dr. Dominique Pepper interviews Dr. Allan Walkey. They discuss low tidal volume ventilation in ARDS. Dr. Walkey is the chair of the Early Career Professional Working Group... read more