Clinician Educator Incubator program

Clinical medicine has always been taught with a strong emphasis on the master-apprentice model.  This relies heavily on clinical educators, many of whom give their time freely. However, many do so without any formal instruction in education and training. Our guest on this podcast is Dr Chris Nick…

TAME

The ultimate outcome for patients who are resuscitated from cardiac arrest depends heavily on the neurological damage that results from a low flow state.  Prevention of further damage during this phase is one of the core goals of post resuscitation care. In recent years, a multitude of research pa…

eCPR and the SHERPA trial

This podcast comes to you from the 2023 ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Noosa meeting. ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) is steadily embedding itself into modern critical care medicine.   Does it have a role in pre-hospital setting for patients with refractory cardiac arrest? In this podca…

Fluids in DKA

DKA causes a serious disturbance of fluid and electrolyte balance. However, it is said that more complications are caused by our management than by the disease itself.  This is no more apparent than in our management of the patient's fluids. Professor Bala Venkatesh is a world renowned intensive …

DIC

This podcast comes to you from the 2022 LIVES Conference in Paris Disseminiated intravascular coagulation is the endpoint of a range of different conditions, including sepsis.  How does this important clinical condition evolve, and what can we do about it? Mirjam Bachler is a senior post doc rese…

Logical

Cardiac arrest causes neurological injury through a sustained period of hypoxia and ischaemia.  It has long been thought that avoiding further hypoxia could save vulnerable brain tissue, leading to the common practice of deliberate hyperoxygenation. However, recent research has suggested this appr…

Are cardiac arrest outcomes improving?

This podcast comes to you from the 2022 LIVES Conference in Paris Sudden cardiac arrest in the community has historically had a poor prognosis.  Improvements in prehospital care and post resuscitation interventions have raised hopes that overall survival has improved.  But has it? Tommaso Scquiz…

Trauma Induced Coagulopathy

Managing bleeding in a patient with severe trauma is a complex process, with multiple interventions occurring in parallel. Derek Kleinveld is an anesthesiology resident at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and a post-doc researcher with an interest in Trauma Induced Coagulopathy.  He j…

AKI in trauma

How important is AKI in trauma?  Can we predict which patients will be affected?  What can we do to stop it? These questions and many more have troubled intensive care clinicians as they care for patients after severe trauma.  Dr Anatole Harrois joins Todd on the podcast to talk all-things AKI in …

Ventilation in TBI

In traumatic brain injury, the lung and the brain are caught in a complex interplay, where the challenges of managing one can affect the other. Chiara Robba is a consultant in Neuro and General Intensive Care at Policlinico San Martino, Genova.  She has a PhD in neuroscience and is the current cha…