Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet 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 care. My guest is Barbara […]
Category Archives: Podcasts
CCP Podcast 095: More mechanical ventilation with Thomas
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet This is the second chat with Thomas Piraino (@respresource) who is a Clinical Specialist in mechanical ventilation at the Centre of Excellence in Mechanical Ventilation, St. Michael’s Hospital. We are moving onto some of the more complex modes of ventilation here with more variability […]
CCP Podcast 051: ICU Follow Up Clinics
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet This is an episode I recorded with Professor Stephen Brett, outgoing President of the Intensive Care Society at the State of the Art meeting 2016 about the merits of the ICU Follow Up Clinics. During the conference, he had had a pro-con debate with Brian […]
CCP Podcast 047: Advanced Critical Care Practitioners
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet This episode is in conjunction with my friends over at JICScast Segun Olusanya and James Day. We met with Dr Anna Batchelor, Carole Boulanger and Gavin Denton to discuss the role of the Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, its impact on the service as a […]
CCP Podcast 010: Cricoid Pressure: Do it? Do it right? Or don’t do it at all?
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet Cricoid pressure is the application of backwards pressure on the cricoid cartilage to occlude the oesophagus. Originally described by Sellick in 1961, he described how pressure applied at the level of the 5th cervical vertebrae obstructed the lumen of the oesophagus. This manoeuvre is […]
CCP Podcast 029: Mechanical Ventilation…Phases of the Breath
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet The third in the series with Ollie Poole (@RespReview) on mechanical ventilation. Ollie goes into some more detail on the phases of the breath. This requires some visualisation of the waveform involved. Below is the video from YouTube that Ollie originally produced which should […]
CCP Podcast 011: Social Media…Use it, don’t abuse it!
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet Another busy time in the world of the Critical Care Practitioner! This episode focuses on a discussion I had with Kaye Rolls (@Kaye_rolls) Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Intensive Care Coordination & Monitoring Unit (ICCMU). She and I had a Twitter discussion around a couple […]
CCP Podcast 079: The Two Jonnys November 2017
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet NOT The Two Ronnies…but The Two Jonnys….and Twitter! This is the another episode of an exciting new podcast project with Jonny Wilkinson (@WilkinsonJonny) who is an anaesthetist and Intensive Care Consultant at Northampton hospital He has a website, Critical Care Northampton, from where he does […]
CCP Podcast 037: How to Make Ultrasound Easier!
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet In this episode I talked to Jennifer Cotton (@sonomojo) who runs the website Sonomojo which is a guide to ultrasound education and she talks about her reasons for setting up the site. The aim of the site is about connecting people to resources about ultrasound. […]
CCP Podcast 046: PTSD in Critical Care II
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet I have covered some aspects of PTSD already in CCP Podcast 041: PTSD in Critical Care when I chatted with Dorothy Wade about some of her research. This gave me great food for thought, so I went to read some of the plentiful research out […]
CCP Podcast 036: Head of Bed Elevation and Reflux.
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet Lynn Schallom is a research scientist at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She published a paper ‘Head of Bed Elevation and Early Outcomes of Gastric Reflux, Aspiration, and Pressure Ulcers’ in the American Journal of Critical Care in January 2015. Head of Bed Elevation There […]
CCP Podcast 093: Recent research with Nicole Kupchik
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet Nicol (@nicchik90) is an RN and an author over in the US. She also has a website over at nicolekupchikconsulting.com where she has many other great resources for others in the profession to use. She recently presented at NTI Boston 2018 and. amongst other subjects, […]
CCP Podcast 043: Why Won’t My Patient Sleep?
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet Why Won’t My Patient Sleep! The Intensive Care patient will often lie awake at night, eyes wide open, clearly with no intention of sleeping. So why won’t the intensive care patient sleep? Perhaps we need to understand what happens during normal sleep and take […]
CCP Podcast 102: Dale Needham and Delirium
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet I was lucky enough to be able to join Tanj and Dale Needham in this conversation at the ICS State of the Art conference 2018 in London. We discuss some of the ongoing issues with delirium in the critical care patient and how we might […]
CCP Podcast 084: Audits on some ACCPs skills with Gavin Denton.
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet ACCPs skills are many and varied as those of you who do the job will know. My friend Gavin Denton (@DentonGavin) has conducted 3 different audits along with his colleagues at the Heart of England NHS trust. In this podcast he presents some of the very interesting findings. […]
CCP Podcast 006: Chat with David Barton
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet David Barton is Head of Department of Nursing at Swansea University and has been very involved in the development of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role both locally and nationally. This discussion centres around his history and some of the issues in the development of […]
CCP Podcast 028: James DuCanto Talks Intubation
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet I love the world of social media. It was through the medium of Twitter that I was able to connect with James DuCanto (@jducanto)who is an anesthesiologist at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin. Gavin Denton (@DentonGavin) and I picked his brains about some of […]
CCP Podcast 061: Papers of the Month: March 2017
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet Three more papers of the month for us to peruse. This time Gavin (@DentonGavin) and I are also joined by Sean Munnelly (@seanmunn). The CLASSIC trial. Restricting volumes of resuscitation fluid in adults with septic shock after initial management: the CLASSIC randomised, parallel-group, multicentre […]
CCP Podcast 094: Magnesium for the win.
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet “Magnesium For the Win!”- with Bryan Boling. Guest: Habib Srour Dr. Srour is an attending in the Anesthesia Critical Care Division at the University of Kentucky where I practice. The episode is the first in a mini-series on electrolyte imbalances in the ICU. I […]
CCP Podcast 101: Palliative Care
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSTweet Palliative Care in the ICU All too often, we see critical care and palliative care as opposites, but they really go together nicely. Today on the podcast, we talk with Dr. Jessica McFarlin (@JessMcFarlinMD) about palliative care and how we can integrate it into […]