Neuro Resus

  Sumesh Arora goes through the key intensive care aspects of managing the patient who's just had an oesophagectomy. These patients can test the best of us and when it all goes wrong it's not pretty. This is in the Pecha Kucha format so if your life only has a 6.40 hole, plug it! This was recorded at the ICN night powered by PK last December. Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for more.

This podcast was recorded backstage at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting in January 2015 at the Galgorm Resort in Northern Ireland. The meeting is hosted annually by Rob Mac Sweeney, the creator and curator of the awesome Critical Care Reviews website. The intro and outro track is from Spiedkiks "Take off your make up", a creative commons free music download.

Danielle discusses the intensive care management of acute liver failure, including future directions for treating this devastating condition.    This was also recorded at the ICN NSW meeting in the Pecha Kucha format of 20 slides, 20 s per slide, so it's waffle-free and well rehearsed! Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for more!

Recorded live in a Sushi Bar in Erskineville for an ICN NSW night powered by Pecha Kucha, this is a succinct presentation on Ventilation in acute severe asthma.   With 20 slides and exactly 20 seconds per slide, Jude summarises the priciples behind ventilating one of the most terrifying types of patient we encouter: the acute severe asthmatic.

Recorded live in a Sushi Bar in Erskineville for an ICN NSW night powered by Pecha Kucha, this is a succinct presentation on Ebola. 20 slides, exactly 20 seconds per slides and in 6 min 40s, Sara has encapsulated where we're up to with Ebola.

Day and Olusanya present many interesting articles from the Journal of the Intensive Care Society. They discuss a case of coagulopathy on novel anticoagulants,  riginal research on use of automatic acceptance criteria to improve patient transfers. and intensive care follow up of UK military casualties. All the articles are #FOAMed and can be accessed from: http://inc.sagepub.com/content/15/2.toc

Hergen Buscher gives you an update on what's new and happening in ECMO. Hergen has been working with ECMO for over a decade gives a great talk on this ever evolving field. If you are working with or will work with ECMO, this talk is essential listening. His superb slides are available on www.intensivecarenetwork.com.

Want to know how you can be useful when the call goes out to join the "other" Mile-High Club? Dr Ian Hosegood is the medical director for a major international airline, and has extensive experience with pre-hospital care. In part two of this entertaining talk, he discusses the policies and training of airline staff, how medically qualified volunteers can be useful, and might even touch on how to g...

David Gattas gives an update on today's go-to anti-coagulant for renal replacement therapy. David is an ANZICS CTG power player, with a growing list of publications and was involved in the RENAL and POST-RENAL studies. This was recorded live at an ICN NSW / ANZICS meeting in September 2014.

Associate Professor Dave Pilcher is an Intensive Care Specialist at the Alfred Hospital and chair of the ANZICS Centre for Outcomes and Resource Evaluation (CORE) and an Associate Professor with the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine at Monash University. He talks at our August 2014 educational meeting on the improving mortality in Australasia from sepsis and discusses some of th...

A google hangout discussing the latest study on Early Goal Directed Therapy - ARISE. Featuring Anthony Delaney, Simon Carley, Segun Olusanya, James Day, Minh Le Cong, Jonathan Downham and Oli Flower.

When does age transition from being an asset to a liability? Segun Olusanya and James Day interview Chris Thorpe on the intriguing question of whether increasing retirement age of ICU consultants affects personal health and patient safety.

Karin Amrein is the lead author of the VITdAL-ICU trial that was just published in JAMA. Hear her real take on the results, implications and how she did it with two young kids.

THE ARISE STUDY: ARISEN Anthony Delaney is a lead PI for the recently published ARISE study Listen to his take on ARISE and: The clinical bottom line Why it was a feat in itself pulling off such a study What is true dogmalysis The future for sepsis studies His take on EMCrit's Scott Weingart's interpretation His responses to EMCrit listener's comments Above all, the take home points are in line wi...

Sepsis kills thousands every year. Finfer discusses what sepsis is and we can improve the morbidity and mortality from this familiar but enigmatic foe. See www.intensivecarenetwork.com for more...

Simon Finfer is a leading critical care clinical researcher. Hear his candid talk on the reality of research and publication and why it's relevant to you! Go to Intensive Care Network  for the slides, videos and more.

Stan Yastrebov is an echo guru and an ICU professor of echo at St George hospital in Sydney. In this talk that he gave at an ICN NSW meeting last month he goes through the nuts and bolts of haemodynamic assessment with echo. Whether you're a novice or a regular echo user in crit care, this talk has something for you. Echo talks can be a bit boring but Stan's energy and enthusiasm really come acros...

Nicola Stanley describes how ultrasound has changed the way we do critical care procedures and in the video, shows you a few new tricks.

It's only two months until the Bedside Critical Care Conference, and this year is looking like a cracker! We're going back to tropical Cairns for the crit care conference with a difference – small, friendly and packed with superb practical crit care education. After popular demand we’re going back to beautiful Queensland in the September/October school holidays. Come to the gateway of the Great Ba...

Sam Radford and Julian Van Dyke will help keep you ever-ready in and out of ICU with their talk on simulations and debriefing. This podcast was recorded at the July Victorian Intensive Care Network meeting.

  Li Tan is an Intensivist and Echo Fellow at St George hospital in Sydney. She has a particular interest in critical care echocardiography and in this talk describes how useful it can be when investigating obstructive shock.

Out of hours (OOH) care remains a challenge in all medical specialties round the world. Day and Olusanya interview Owen Roodenburg from the Royal Alfred, Melbourne, about an innovative approach to managing OOH care in hospitals. This new programme directly addresses many of the issues with night time staff cover and allows selected trainees to obtain a Certificate of Clinical Leadership centred ar...

  Cartan Costello is an Intensivist from St George hospital in Sydney. He has a particular interest in critical care echocardiography and in this talk describes how useful it can be for trauma patients. Go to www.intensivecarenetwork.com for the slides and video.

1.6 million people are on the Australian Organ Donation Registry. How do you approach organ donation with your patients? Steve Philpot speaks at the May VIN meeting about how we can better facilitate organ donation and about the usefulness of the donation registry.