Critical Care Practitioner

In this podcast episode, Gavin Denton and I look at three recent papers, breaking them down to try to help us and you understand some of their conclusions and how they reached them. Our notes can be found below. Video laryngoscopy vs direct laryngoscopy on successful first pass orotracheal intubation amongst ICU patients. JAMA Jan […] The post CCP Podcast 055: Papers of the Month appeared first on...

I have been an advocate of using YouTube for many years now and one of the YouTube resources I have used for a while now is that created by Dr Eric Strong. I love his style and he teaches a lot of subjects which I encounter in critical and emergency care. People often ask me […] The post CCP Podcast 016: The Strong Arm of Eric…YouTube Learning appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner .

Gavin Denton and I get together again to review a couple of recent papers that have some bearing on our practice. Welcome to the Papers of the month. This month we cover Check Up- Position- “A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Ramped Position vs Sniffing Position During Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults” and the APRV trial –BILEVEL-APRV  […] The post CCP Podcast 085: Papers of the Mo...

This is a conversation I had with Martin Horton (@chuckyhorton), Aimee Wright (@AimsleyW) and Ashleigh Lowther (@ashleighlowther) about an ACP conference they are planning on the 6th October 2017 at Birmingham City Football Club. The agenda looks great and it will also be a fabulous networking opportunity. Its also very reasonably priced! Go here to book your […] The post CCP Podcast 075: ACP Conf...

Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) This is an update and expansion of the previous nutrition guidelines and this is a summary of the some of the key points. I […] The post CCP Podcast 053: Nutrition Guidelines appeared...

In my second podcast I think I set the scene for one of the tools I am going to use the most for the rest of the series, and in the podcast I explain why, going into some depth about Twitter. I also talk about the new History Taking and Examination course and my new […] The post CCP Podcast 002: Twitter, Google Hang Outs and Speakpipe! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner .

AKI: Acute Kidney Injury is a common complication in the ICU. Today we discuss it with Dr. Juan-Carlos Aycinena, a critical care nephrologist at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Aycinena refers to the KDIGO guidelines, those, along with a lot of other great guidelines and information about renal disease can be found at https://kdigo.org/guidelines/. Interview Questions […] The post CCP Podcast 098:...

Shiela Pantrini has been developing the educational route for the Advanced Clinical Practitioners along side Garry Swann at the Heart of England NHS Trust. She tells us how this occurred and the principles that drove it. We also go on to discuss the plans for the future and what would make a good potential practitioner. […] The post CCP Podcast 022: ACP’s Education, Education, Education. appeared...

Ken Spearpoint and I talk about Crew resource management as it relates to the cardiac arrest scenario. I love talking with Ken as he is so knowledgeable and puts his points across so well. i found it really interesting to chat with him about this. I have broken it down into two parts as we […] The post CCP Podcast 026: Crew Resource Management…What? appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner .

I was lucky enough to be joined by Cath Edwards (@cathedwards_1), a physio up in Lancashire. She attended this years British Thoracic Society 2018 Summer meeting. So I picked her brains about what she heard there. It sounds like a great conference and I think one I will be trying to attend in the future. Interview Questions […] The post CCP Podcast 089: Cath and Jonathan chat about BTS2018 appeare...

Psychological well being, health related quality of life and memories of intensive care and a specialised weaning centre reported by survivors of prolonged mechanical ventilation. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 145–151, June 2014 The lead author of this paper Louise Rose very kindly agreed to discuss this article and some of […] The post CCP Podcast 013: Mind and Bod...

This is a discussion which follows on from CCP Podcast 077: NCEPOD 2017 Acute Non-Invasive Ventilation: Inspiring Change. In this episode, I have a chat about the NCEPOD findings with one of the authors, Mark Juniper and with Vicky Mummery a physio who is very involved in improving practice at her trust. I think this discussion […] The post CCP Podcast 078: NCEPOD 2017 Acute Non-Invasive Ventilati...

I made contact with Dr Segun Olunsanya via Twitter to discuss some of the issues around the fluid management of the sick patient. He in turn persuaded a couple of others involved in ITU. This has led to this fascinating discussion around this issue and it is one of the podcasts I am most pleased […] The post CCP Podcast 014: How Much Fluid? appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner .

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO is one of those treatments we sometimes need to think about with our very sick patients. I recently had to make a referral to my local centre and doing so made me wonder what it is that the ECMO centres want from us to make the path smoother. So I […] The post CCP Podcast 087: ECMO- How can I make the best referral? appeared first on Critical Care Practi...

Claire is a staff nurse at the Heart of England NHS Trust and is very passionate about her job. She has only been qualified for about 6 months at the time of the interview, but her passion for nursing is very evident in the interview. She also discusses her role as a Caremaker which you […] The post CCP Podcast 008: Chat with Claire Flatt appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner .

Episode number three features a discussion with Robin a colleague and friend in the trust I work in. We discuss the varied elements to his job which include training, keeping up with current practice and audit. Team management at the arrest situation is also discussed and mention of crisis resource management. [maxbutton id=”1″] The Rage […] The post CCP Podcast 003 : Interview with Robin Davies,...

Selecting the intervention in Intubated patients: Evidence, Guidelines and Clinical Application This is a chat with Rachael Moses (@rachaelmoses) who is a consultant respiratory physiotherapist. I noticed from a twitter post that she had been at a meeting and presented on the above topic. She was kind enough to chat with me for the podcast. […] The post CCP Podcast 056: Got to help them cough! Wit...

Simon Cooper is an Associate Professor at Monash University in Australia and developed the First2Act website which looks at the management of the deteriorating patient using multi media teaching tools. The website is a free resource and will prove very helpful for those trying to work with this kind of patient. Some of the links […] The post CCP Podcast 017: Simon is one of the First 2 Act. appear...

Jonny Wilkinson (@wilkinsonjonny) and Dave Lyness (@Gas_Craic) were not at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art in person but both followed very closely via social media. Jonny has summarised a lot of the key points on his website Critical Care Northampton and in this podcast, we all discuss some of the issues raised. […] The post CCP Podcast 081:The Two Jonnys at ICSSOA 2017 (and Dave). ap...

Very short episode…listen and you will hear why. See you in September 2015!! [table id=1 /] [Stitcher_Radio_Logo] [get_in_touch_with_jonathan]   http://traffic.libsyn.com/criticalcarepractitioner/CCP_break.mp3 Very short episode…listen and you will hear why. See you in September 2015!! [table id=1 /] [Stitcher_Radio_Logo] [get_in_touch_with_jonathan]   The post CCP Podcast- Summer Break appeared f...

NOT The Two Ronnies…but The Two Jonnys….and Twitter! This is the second 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 regular reviews of some of the many issues one can find […] The post CCP Podcast 066: The Two Jonnys Do T...

Desarmenien. The chronic critical illness: a new disease in intensive care. Swiss Med Wkly 2016;146:w14336 This paper is one from the Swiss Medical Weekly 2016 and is a description of the efforts to develop what they call a multi modal care management approach to those patients at risk of chronic critical illness. They call these […] The post CCP Podcast 052: Chronic Critical Illness appeared firs...

This is a very interesting chat I had with Dr Bronwen Connolly who is a Consultant Clinical research Physiotherapist and an NIHR post-doctoral research fellow about early mobilisation in the critical care. She was asked to present at the ICS SOA 2016 to summarise key evidence published in 2016 examining physical rehabilitation in critical illness and […] The post CCP Podcast 058: Early Mobilisatio...

In this podcast episode, Gavin Denton and I look at three recent papers, breaking them down to try to help us and you understand some of their conclusions and how they reached them. Our notes can be found below. Dynamic light application therapy to reduce the incidence and duration of delirium in intensive care patients: […] The post CCP Podcast 057: Papers of the Month appeared first on Critical...

A prospective randomised trial comparing insertion success rate and incidence of catheterisation-related complications for subclavian venous catheterisation using a thin-walled introducer needle or a catheter-over-needle technique Kim, B. G. Kim, Y. J. Lim, Y. T. Jeon, J. W. Hwang, H. C. Kim, Y. H. Choi and H. P. Park http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anae.13543   Gavin Denton and I […] The post CCP Podca...