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Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. It is with trepidation that I approach any topic that involves the negative feedback loops of endocrine control as I really struggle to keep it all straight in my head, ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Condensing all of “inotropes and vasopressors” into a single 5 minute podcast is of course doomed to fail but that’s never stopped me before. The main reference for this is ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. In a further scandalous departure from Oh’s Manual today we’re going to look at a chapter of verified Irish Critical Care legend, Martin Tobin’s huge mechanical ventilation textbook. I have ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re going to talk about a fairly rare and niche issue in critical care – gas embolism. The venerated stone tablets of Oh’s Manual do not mention it in ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. With extreme brevity we are going to try and cover Oh’s Manual Chapter 38 on respiratory monitoring. This is something of a hodge podge i must admit. I’ll start by ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This is part of Oh’s Manual Chapter 77 on head injury and we covered ICP monitoring before in number 20. A key principle here is cerebral perfusion pressure or CPP. ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Oh’s Manual chapter 104 has a decent chapter on the intensive care aspects of lung transplant. A lot of this stuff ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. This week: serotonin syndrome. Much talked about, very common in an exam, quite rare in real life. It doesn’t really get ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Today we’re talking a little about that most vital of gases – oxygen. This is going to be back to some ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Today we’ll talk about CRRT timing. When should your critically ill patient take a spin on the green machine? From an ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. If you were tuning in to try and pick up some core exam level content then this is probably not it. ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Today we’re looking at Oh Chapter 64 covering some of the absolute basics of pre eclampsia. ICU level pre eclampsia is ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Today’s podcast is mostly taken from Oh’s manual Chapter 96 covering critical care nutrition. Something we all know and love deeply ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. GBS management can be nicely split into disease specific management and ICU supportive care. In terms of specific treatment this is ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. GBS is a clinically important diagnosis for both the emergency department and the ICU. Its rareish but common enough that you ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. We see C. Diff in the ICU in a couple of contexts. Firstly the poor unfortunate soul who starts with a ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. HIV in the ICU is becoming a bit of a rare beast as the ID docs seem to have it so ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Plasmapheresis (or PLEX) is one of the machines we tend not to have responsibility for in the ICU. Unlike CRRT we tend to defer to another specialty to do this. ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. SBS is not a common thing to find in the ICU and the most likely context here is going to be receiving someone from the operating theatre who has had ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. The commonest time we think of adrenocortical insufficiency in the ICU is probably in sepsis. This post will definititely not cover the beast that is steroid use in the intensive ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care exam preparation. The aminoglycosides see themselves as a bit special. Not content with producing deafness and killing kidneys they’ve also demanded awkward dosing schedules, ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Cardiac pacing comes in a variety of flavours in critical care but a reasonable list of class I indications for permanent pacing might include: 2nd/3rd block with symptoms and bradycardia, ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Continuing along a theme of words with with too many i’s in them, (see TM 007 for more) today we look at necrotising fasciitis or “nec fasc” to its friends. ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Ventilators remain one of the dark arts and hidden mysteries of critical care. Intensive care is a fairly generalist specialty overall and we share our core knowledge with a lot ... Read More »

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Like most spaces within the body, the contents within the cranium are under a certain degree of pressure. The skull being a rigid box can accommodate pressure much less than ... Read More »