Learning Resources
I hope these are helpful
My name is Jonathan Downham and I am an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner in Warwick, UK.
I have worked in Critical Care for over 20 years now and have learned many things whilst there. This site has some of my teaching resources, podcasts and videos for anyone else to benefit from.
If you want to follow me on Twitter then look for @ccpractitioner. I am very active on there and it is the best way to get in touch with me quickly.
Most Recent Podcasts
You can find the rest via whichever pod catcher you choose
Just search for the 'Critical Care Practitioner' podcast.
CCP Podcast 142: Advanced Practice Proving its Worth.
My good friend and colleague Rob Fenwick (@robfenwick) and I chatted about the article he was involved in "Productivity of Advanced Clinical Practitioners in Emergency Medicine: A 1-year dual-centre retrospective analysis"
Rob is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in the West Midlands in the Emergency Medicine department. He is also one of the members of the fabulous podcast The Resus Room (@TheResusRoom) which I highly recommend!
CCP Podcast 141: ARDS- how we treat it.
This is a discussion with Dr Mark Ramzy, an EM and Critical Care Doctor in Pittsburgh.
His infographic on the various options open to us in the treatment of the patient with ARDS caught my eye on twitter so I managed to chat to him about it.
CCP Podcast 140: Proning from bench to bedside.
I am joined by Yogesh Apte, a doctor based in Australia, who recently went through a plan, do, study, act cycle with his team in critical care to ensure they prone well and safely. The article this is based on is below.
CCP Podcast 139: ICU Follow Up Clinics
This is a discussion I had with several others on Facebook Live about setting up and the use of ICU Follow Up Clinics. Some of those on the panel were new to it and some had existing clinics so shared valuable information.
CCP Podcast 138: In Situ Simulation
Kimberley Kirkbright presented her poster at the recent virtual BACCN 2020 conference. She is a keen user of in situ simulation in her department and has set up a program to make it effective. We can all learn something from this.
CCP Podcast 137: VR and Critical Care. Really?!
Here my friend Jon White (@TechNurseJon) chats with Suzanne Lee (@TheHappyLass) founder of Pivotal Reality, VR AR Consultancy for apps with purpose and VR for Dementia specialist, about how we could start thinking about VR in Critical Care.
CCP Podcast 136: Delirium with David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) is a journalist, author and regular reporter with The Times. He was also an intensive care patient and suffered with a frightening delirium. We discuss this along with Dr Julie Highfield (@DrJulie_H) to see how we as intensive care practitioners can help.
CCP Podcast 135: COVID-19 and Ethics
A conversation between Zudin Puthucheary, Senior lecturer and consultant in intensive care medicine, Dr Caroline Sampson, consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, deputy director for Adult ECMO, Glenfield Hospital and Dr Dan Harvey, Intensive care consultant, Nottingham University Hospitals and a member of the legal and ethical advisory group of the Intensive Care Society who is the author of "CRITCON-Pandemic Levels: a stepwise ethical approach to clinician responsibility."
Guidelines for the management of tracheal intubation in critically ill adults
Having read the guidelines I made these infographics. They are FREE. Just let me know your email address and they will be sent to you.
I have been producing podcasts, videos and working on this website now for several years and doing it in my own time with my own resources. I would love some help to cover the costs and do more so if you could spare a pound or two a month I would be very grateful.
You can go to my Patreon page to make it happen. Just click on the image to the left. Thank you.
Jonathan
