Neuro Resus

Rupert Pearse discusses the importance of results from the OPTIMISE trial to improve perioperative patient management.

Gerard Fennessy interviews Associate Professor Daryl Jones (Austin Hospital, Melbourne) on Medical Emergency Teams. They discuss how such Rapid Response Teams have developed across the globe and how they have improved critical care delivery.

  Gordon Flynn is an Intensivist and an Anaesthetist from Prince of Wales hospital in Sydney. Here he gives an entertaining and thought provoking talk on the big topic of obesity in ICU. Leave comments below on ICN!

John Botha discusses renal failure at the VIN April meeting.

David Bihari is an Intensivist from Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. He is particularly interested and passionate about nutrition in the critically ill, and has been involved in research in this area for many years.

Check out what's new in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society with James Day and Segun Olusanya. They discuss new research on futility of care, nurse led tracheostomy weaning and concerns with work-related health problems for ICU staff.

Ravi Tiruvopati discusses hypercapnia in ICU patients, particularly for those with severe respiratory failure. This podcast was recorded during a VIN meeting in January.

Stephen Warrillow speaks about liver failure at a VIN (Victorian Intensive Care Network) meeting.

Segun Olusanya and James Day interview Karim Brohi on his talk about coagulation in trauma. This interview was recorded during the State of the Art Conference in London earlier this year. Brohi is the author of Trauma.org

Stephen Warrillow is an Intensivist from the Austin Hospital in Victoria.  Here he discusses the care of a liver transplant recipient in intensive care.

Tim Crozier is an Intensivist from Monash in Melbourne. Here he talks about Obstetric morbidity for the Intensivist.   This was recorded live at a ICN Victoria meeting.

Delaney shares insights into the mysterious world of statistics and trials. This 12 minute podcast is particularly useful for Registrars preparing for their exams and was recorded at BCC4.

Anthony Tzannes talks on how mushroom poisoning happens and gives an array of practical and creative ways to treat it. This talk was recorded at BCC4. Check out www.intensivecarenetwork.com for more talks or hit up www.bedsidecriticalcare.com to rego for this year's conference.

Fran Lockie, provides a useful update on the outcomes and issues with paediatric drowning. This talk was recorded at Bedside Critical Care Conference. The next BCC will be held in Cairns, 29th September - 3rd of October: http://bedsidecriticalcare.com/

Toxicologist, Mark Little dives into marine envenomation, with particular attention to the dangers of jellyfish. This talk was recorded at BCC4. Don't miss out on the fantastic upcoming BCC5 this September 29th- October 3rd in gloriously sunny Cairns. http://bedsidecriticalcare.com/

Present and future cardiothoracic intensivists will enjoy this talk by Brian Plunkett on thoracic aortic dissection given at BCC4.

Enrich your knowledge of cardiac ultrasound with the help from experienced sonographer, Sharon Kay. Sharon covers a focused cardiac ultrasound of the heart, and gives examples of emergency cardiac conditions that can be detected with this versatile modality. This talk was recorded at Bedside Critical Care Conference 4. For the full post and other BCC4 posts, head over to www.intensivecarenetwork.c...

 Marek Nalos takes us on a mission to explore the myth of lactic acidosis. Marek is an intensivist and the Director of Trauma for Nepean Hospital. This talk was recorded at BCC4.

To thin or not to thin? That is a puzzle that Sarah Wesley helps answer with her interactive talk on anticoagulation and the heart. This podcast was recorded at BCC4.

Pierre Janin speaks on the dawn of a revolution for treating Hepatitis C. This was recorded at BCC4.

Intensivist Jon Gatward speaks at BCC4 about Liver Transplantation. His informative talk covers complications including post-reperfusion syndrome, biliary complications, hepatic artery thrombosis and 'other badness'. It also explores DCD livers and issues for retransplantation. Keep up to date with slides and posts on the intensivecarenetwork.com

Clive Woolfe, Irishman and RPA Intensivist, speaks at Bedside Critical Care Conference. In this podcast, he gives an overview of the prognostication and management of chronic liver disease. See www.intensivecarenetwork.com for the slides and post.

Anthony Delaney, on of the key Investigators in the ARISE trial discusses the recent results from the ProCESS trial and what this means for sepsis management at the right now. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign statement is  here  and paper Anthony mentions describing the differences between the three sepsis trials is  here .

David Anderson gives an entertaining and informative talk about Acute Liver Failure at BCC4. He covers a good approach to thinking about diagnosis, management and prognosis of acute liver failure.

Segun Olusanya and James Day are back, interviewing Professor Art Slutsky, an expert in respiratory failure and adult respiratory distress syndrome. Art shares how his engineering experience has helped shaped his career and about his research and involvement in redefining ARDS.  Check out the great references for this talk at the Intensive Care Network website: www.intensivecarenetwork.com