Neuro Resus

Paul Young is the man of the moment. In one week has has published the SPLIT trial in JAMA, the HEAT trail in the NEJM and presented both at the ESICM conference. Platform Trials. In this interview Paul discusses The SPLIT Trial - the first trial to substantially look at buffered crystalloids vrs saline and now really paves the way for a definitive trial in this area. He answers some questions tha...

Grace Leo shares her cornerstones for developing a powerful presentation: passion, purpose and practice. In this workshop talk from smaccGOLD, she also provides tips and strategies to turn an average presentation into one with style. For the full post, please see www.intensivecarenetwork.com

A personal story of cyclone Yasi The beginning of 2011 was an extraordinary period for natural disasters in our part of the world. It began with the floods in South East Queensland, then Cyclone Yasi, the Christchurch earthquake and finally the Japanese tsunami. The evacuation of the Cairns Hospital in less than 24 hours is one of the great success stories for Emergency Services in Queensland. It...

Bloody Oral Anticoagulants – BCC talk 2014 The use of the New Oral Anticoagulant Drugs present unique challenges for the Intensive Care practitioner 1. The NOACs now have PBS approval for non-valvular AF, below knee DVT, DVT prophylaxis and low volume PE 2. There is no specific antidote for NOAC related bleeding but don’t despair there are some things that can help 3. Routine coagulation testing d...

Neurotrauma – How to Put Humpty together again Humpty is a 23 year old egg, who fancied himself as a bit of a Hipster. Little did poor old Humpty know that his day was about to end in tears and he was to join the 1000 other Australians who annually have a severe head injury.  The talk focuses on Traumatic Brain Injury. There is particular emphasis on Traumatic Subarachnoid Haemorrhage and Transfus...

Penetrating injuries to the neck is a great summary of how to assess and manage neck wounds from lacerations to the airway to gunshot wounds. The talk covers relevant anatomy, the zones of the neck and how to investigate vascular, tracheal and oesophageal injuries. A comprehensive understanding of the relevat anatomy is essential to recognising associated injury patterns.  The improvements in the...

Feeding in the Intensive Care - A trickle or a torrent, is a great summary of several key critical care nutrition trials and how we can apply the evidence from these to the ICU patient. Providing adequate nutrition to patients in the intensive care is an extremely complex therapy that must be carefully titrated on a daily basis. The evidence for how to provide nutrition to critically ill patients...

SMACC BACK! with Dr Kevin Fong An interview with Kevin Fong following his talk on safety lessons from space at SMACC Chicago. He is a highly decorated speaker with qualifications in astrophysics, medicine, anaesthetics, engineering and ICU, as well as a regular TV guest star on BBC2 show Horizon, NASA advisor and  co-founder, co-director of CASE medicine. He spoke to us about how we can protect ou...

Tor Ercleve talks about Resuscitating Art...diving into the world of infographics, symphonies and battle planning. You'll leave this talk refreshed and inspired to reinvent the way you communicate information. This talk was recorded at the smaccGOLD Get Creative Workshop. To see the talk with slides check out www.intensivecarenetwork.com/tor-ercleve-resuscitating-art

SMACC BACK!  In the third interview of the series, Sophie and myself get the opportunity to discuss all things ECMO with leading experts of ED ECMO, Joe Bellezzo and Chris Ho.  Following their highly entertaining cage match at SMACC Chicago in which Joe and Chris are forced to take opposing sides on ED ECMO, we get to hear their real opinions on how this equipment is becoming more and more accessi...

SMACC BACK! After an excellent talk at SMACC US which introduced us to #resus wankers , Dr John Hinds took time to chat with Sophie Connolly and Alice Young (ICU Residents from RNSH) about why SMACC is THE BEST conference, challenges for junior doctors and more!   We thank Dr John Hinds for his positive influence on critical care in Northern Ireland and throughout the extended CC community. He wil...

SMACC BACK!  Scott Weingart takes time out between his entertaining and enlightening talks given at SMACC Chicago to chat with Sophie Connolly and Alice Young (ICU Residents from RNSH) about all things SMACC, the differences between training in the USA and Australia, advice for junior doctors and the origins of EMCRIT.    Check out this interview as a prelude to the release of the talks given at S...

  Charles Feldman is Professor of Pulmonology and Chief Physician at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. In this talk given at an ICN Victoria meeting last year, he discusses the alphabet soup that represent pneumonia phenotypes and clarifies what it's all about. His unique perspective on the history behind this incredible relevant topic is well worth hearing and hopefully clarifies s...

HIV and ICU: the second ICN NZ talk from New Zealand's premier infectious diseases and HIV guru. He is consistently voted by the Auckland Uni Med students as their favourite teacher. Recorded live in Auckland, NZ.

Anthony Brown shares as an editor, the basics and tools of writing you need to use to maximise the c hances of your paper being published. This is a fantastic learning resource and comes neatly packaged within 15 minutes! The talk compliments Michelle Johnston's previous talk on The Artful Arrangment of Words. It was recorded at smaccGOLD's Creative Workshop.

Michelle Johnston, ED physician and author talks about the majesty in writing and how we can improve our skills. She brings us back to the often overlooked basics on the english language and how we can harness them to create a call to action, assert our research more clearly or simply improve everyday writing. This talk was recorded at the smaccGOLD Get Creative/Express Yourself workshop. This Get...

John Myburgh takes us through 200 years of fluids therapy in critical care in one powerful presentation. He discusses the essential moments from history that changed the way we practice today and puts this long an bizarre story into context. He covers the key aspects of relevant physiology and, inspired by Kipling, the what, where, when, how, why and whom of this intervention that has become synon...

Day and Olusanya discuss key articles from the July 2014 edition of JICS (Journal of the Intensive Care Society). These include: management of diabetic ketoacidosis, a review on oxygen therapy and a look into ECHO in diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. This journal is open access and can be found here: http://inc.sagepub.com/content/15/3.toc

Prof. Darren Heyland speaks to Dr David Gary and Dr James Day about Critical Care Nutrition. He discusses the PEP UP protocol for enteral feeding and the NUTRIC Score for identifying patients that may benefit from agressive nutrition therapy. This talk was first posted on www.intensivecarenetwork.com

Olusanya and Day are back with an interesting interview with Ron Daniels, the head of the UK Sepsis Trust. Daniels discusses the worldwide effort towards working for greater recognition and earlier treatment of sepsis. World Sepsis Day 2015 is on September 13th. For references of this talk and more information check out our post on www.intensivecarenetwork.com

David ( @expensivecare ) breaks some bad news: you are going to die. And so are many of your patients. Whilst many of us are pretty competent at bring people back to life, managing death well is a completely different skill set. David offers some very practical tips in this witty and incredibly relevant talk. This is in the  Pecha Kucha  format so if your life only has a 6.40 hole, plug it!   This...

Shay McGuinness talks about what ECMO is, the history of its use in New Zealand and how their ECMO retrieval system works there. This was recorded live at the inaugural ICN NZ meeting, with support from ANZICS NZ. 

Hussain ( @ HussainKadim  )  takes us through what trauma is and means today, and how the network of trauma services becomes more than a sum of its parts. An interesting perspective on the big picture which is so easy to loose sight of. This is in the  Pecha Kucha  format so if your life only has a 6.40 hole, plug it!   This was also recorded live in a sushi bar in Erskineville for an  ICN NSW  ni...

Whilst faeces may not be the most glamorous of topics, the bowel habits of the critically ill matter. In Code Brown: Poo in the ICU, Claire takes us through the nuts and bolts of what faeces are, what to do if the consistency is wrong, the pitfalls of faecal management systems and why Bowels deserve their place in the ABC of resuscitation.