Neuro Resus

Ciaran McKenna and Andy Buck have a pow-wow with Matthew Mac Partlin on 3D Printing - Where it's up to, where it might go and how they are using it.

Dr Steve McGloughlin is an intensivist at the Alfred Hospital. He has a special interest in education particularly the use of simulation and crisis resource management skills in critical care. He is also an infectious diseases specialist and maintains both clinical and research interests in infections in critically ill patients. Here he discusses the ongoing primacy of antibiotics in intensive car...

Professor Cornely is Professor of Internal Medicine and Director for Clinical Trials at University Hospital, Cologne, Germany. His research interests include invasive fungal diseases in haematology/oncology and in the ICU setting. Here he discusses the epidemiology, diagnostic challenges, appropriate prophylaxis and treatment of fungal infections in the ICU with a focus on haematology patients.

Irma Bilgrami gives an insightful and engaging talk on mentorship, the mentor and mentee roles and how to ensure everyone has equal access to these important relationships. This was recorded at the May 2016 Women in Intensive Care Network (WIN) meeting in Victoria.

Professor Theodore "Jack" Iwashyna presents an entertaining and informative talk on randomised controlled trials, how we could be getting more useful and better data, and strategies for getting the most out of RCT data in the future. This was recorded at the December 2015 ICN Victoria educational meeting.

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr   Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science 8. Convective gas flow through the tracheobronchial tree is the end-point of pulmonary mechanics but the fundamental purpose of the lung is gas exchange, comprised of three interlinked physiologi...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. Pierre-Simon Laplace Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science 7. As a prelude to deconstructing gas exchange we have been examining how humans, as tidal ventilators, replenish the composition of the gas in the functional residual capacity to provide a plentiful oxygen repository to b...

Burns Microbiology by Janin Infection is a major cause of morbidity & mortality in burns. Pierre goes through the common bugs responsible and how to manage them.

Jon Gatward goes through everything you need to know about approaching the airway of a patient with burns.

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell   Welcome to Basic Science Clinic.  This is Crit Think episode 6, the final podcast in our mathematics series in which we will discuss the mathematics behind clinical measurement. The use of ever advancing technologies is an inherent...

This talk covers burns assessment and initial wound management, including the types of dressings available. Very easy to get wrong, with serious ramifications if you do!

Burns Resuscitation. Lewis Macken takes us through the initial 24 hours of managing a patient with significant burns. Lewis tackles the tricky questions of how much and what kind of fluid to give, and explains the history behind burns resuscitation.

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly If you can't explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough. Albert Einstein Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science episode 6. The next step on the oxygen cascade relates to the composition of alveolar gas, how and why it differs from that in the upper respiratory tract and conducting airways. This composition is determined by th...

Effective patient management requires a combination of timely diagnosis, appropriate medical management and application of human factors. Human factors is the study and application of human interaction with the systems around them. It combines engineering and psychology, and a recognition that humans are not machines and subsequently make mistakes. In order for a system to be robust, it needs to t...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple. Tycho Brahe Welcome to Basic Science Clinic, this is Crit think episode 5. Today our exploration of the mathematical architecture of our most inexact of sciences brings us upon the edifice of logarithms and exponentials. Daunting as it may sound, we will t...

Dr Andrew Davies, Intensivist at Frankston Hospital in Melbourne discusses how Intensive Care Specialists can better care for themselves, including avoiding burnout, eating well, exercising, escaping work, and meditation. This talk was recorded at the ICN Victoria meeting in December 2015.

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly   "…water is the driving force of all nature….without it, nothing retains its form." Leonardo Da Vinci Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science episode 5. Let's get down to business and accompany oxygen on its relentless tumble from nasopharynx to mitochondria down the partial pressure staircase that explains how 160 mmHg of inspired oxygen...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly "Isaac Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians." John Maynard Keynes Welcome to Basic Science Clinic, Crit Think episode 4, in which we will discuss The Calculus.  One of the crowning intellectual achievements of humanity, Calculus is the foundational mathematical concept of modern science.  Almost usurp...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science episode 4. We are close to embarking on the descent down the oxygen cascade, en route we will examine the key contributors to these stepwise decrements...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes Welcome to Basic Science Clinic, this is the 3rd Crit Think podcast on mathematics. Having examined the origin of maths and its influence on the enlightenment explosion of rationality and empiricism, we now turn...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. – Edwin Hubble Welcome to the third podcast in the Basic Science Clinic Raw Science series.  Following our investigation of   the how and why of oxygen, you may be eagerly anticipating the gas' entry into the respiratory system, prompting a dis...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality." -      Albert Einstein Welcome to the second podcast in the Crit Think series from the Basic Science Clinic.  Remember, this is about stimulating insights into the machinations of your mind to assist able dep...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. - Otto Weininger Welcome to the second podcast in the Basic Science Clinic Raw Science series.  In our somewhat circuitous exploration of respiratory physiology we will complete the story of the promiscuously...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly  All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Immanuel Kant Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Crit Think. Our Raw Science series is to provide content for the new programs that you are writing for your intracranial wet-wear, Crit Think is the upgrade of y...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan Assume nothing, trust no one, give oxygen. – Anon Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science podcast series. In case you haven't being paying attention, science is cool. Indulge your inner geek by joining us on our pursuit of developing an integrated scientific understanding from which you can develop a clinical practice informed by deeper insights and inocula...