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Peter Brindley, an intensivist from Canada, and Jon Gatward (of the Critical Care Airway Management Course fame) discuss a recent paper by Peter and a group of airway experts, which discusses airway management outside the operating room and how to better prepare. Clearly this isn't a new concept but there hasn't been much written from the ICU perspective about this, and it's something many of us d...

Kimberley Haines is a senior ICU physiotherapist and the Allied Health Research Lead at Western Health.  Her academic research focusses on the long term progress of ICU survivors. Here she discusses the developing puzzle of ICU outcomes.

Professor Andrew Davies is an Intensivist working at Peninsula Health in Melbourne with a special interest in nutrition in the ICU, and is a past Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN). In this talk, Professor Davies tackles the often overlooked aspect of nutrition in the ICU and it's potential benefits for our patients

Professor Rinaldo Bellomo is an Intensivist at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. He is Professor of Medicine at Melbourne University, and Honorary Professor of Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne and The University of Sydney. He is one of the most eminent researchers in Intensive Care Medicine today and has been named one of the most influential scientific minds of our time. In this thought-p...

Pete McCanny gives a talk on the cutting edge management of cardiogenic shock and challenges the conventional approach to mechanical support. 

Thomas & Kass bust some common ICU Myths in a classic Podcast.

David Anderson, intensivist at the Alfred, discusses dementia, death and end of life care in the intensive care unit

WIN October Dinner 2016: Death and Dying in the Intensive Care Unit

learnECMO Roger Pye on cannulation, part 1. This podcast is the first of 2 parts of the Cannulation 101 session from the recent ECMOcannulate course. It is delivered by a true expert in the form of Roger Pye, erstwhile renal physician, intensivist and cardiac anaesthetist with 10 years of ECMO retrieval experience. In part 1 Roger gets right down to the grain on VV cannulation and just how vital c...

Stroke thrombolysis - why are we still arguing? Summary by Lachlan Donaldson The debate regarding the efficacy of thrombolysis grumbles on … How is it that two different groups (i.e. mostly ED doctors and neurologists) can look at the same set of trials and come to fundamentally different conclusions? To examine this, these authors have attempted to perform an unbiased meta-analysis and systematic...

Associate Professor Vincent Pellegrino is a Senior Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred Hospital and head of the ECMO Clinical Service.  He has had a lead role in the development of ECMO services at The Alfred since 2003. From the ECMO CPR ICN Victoria meeting he discusses how to get patient selection and outcomes right for eCPR.

Peter McCanny is part of the LearnECMO team. In this podcast he explains some of the background and history of ECMO CPR, what evidence there is to support its use and where we're heading in the future.

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly In the words of the 3rd greatest physicist of all time, James Clerk Maxwell: "It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state." Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science 10. Not before time we are ready to ap...

ECMO Gas Exchange by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly This is the first in a series of ECMO podcast from the LearnECMO team - starting with the physiology of ECMO gas exchange.  

Professor Stephen Bernard is an Intensive Care Physician at The Alfred Hospital and Medical Advisor to Ambulance Victoria.   His research interests include the use of therapeutic hypothermia for the treatment of neurological injury after resuscitation from out-of hospital cardiac arrest. Here he provides a presentation on recent advances in the management of refractory cardiac arrest in the out of...

Jason Maclure is deputy director of Intensive Care at the Alfred Melbourne. He has strong interests in analgesia and sedation, respiratory failure, ventilation, HFOV and ECMO. From an ICN Victoria 2016 meeting on ECMO CPR he discusses the development of the eCPR protocol at the Alfred.

Huy Tran is a lab and clinical haematologist at Peninsula Health. He has research interests in haemostasis and thrombosis and is a member of the Australasian committee for anticoagulation reversal. This is his presentation from an ICN Victoria meeting where he discusses the new oral anticoagulants and what can be done when they cause critical bleeding

Dr Sachin Gupta is an intensivist at Peninsula Health with interests including medical education and quality assurance. In this podcast from an ICN Victoria meeting he discusses the difficulties we currently face in predicting bleeding and how this might change in the future.

The role of Liver Replacement Therapies remains undefined. In this podcast, Associate Professor Luke Torre shares his experience and the science and evidence behind Extra-Corporeal Liver Assist Devices (ELAD) Dr Torre is currently working as an Intensivist/Anaesthetist in Perth, Western Australia. This presentation was originally presented at an ICN WA meeting held 2nd December 2015 in conjunction...

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly In the words of the canonical Roman poet Ovid: "Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation". Welcome to Basic Science Clinic Raw Science 9. Convective gas flow provides the substrate to interface with alveolar structural and functional adaptation in orchestrating gas exchange. Gas exchange is the serial interconnection of ventilation, diffu...

Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Failure remains elusive and challenging to even the seasoned Intensivist. In this post, Playford unravels the mysteries behind Right Heart Failure and ECHO tips and pitfalls. Originally recorded 28th July 2015 at the Inaugural ICN WA meeting Professor Playford is a Cardiologist with a special interest in pulmonary hypertension and has recently authored a chap...

Claire Cattigan is an Intensivist and Deputy Director of ICU at The University Hospital Geelong.  She is interested in the management of paediatric patients in mixed ICUs and gives a fascinating talk on the challenges and rewards of introducing paediatric patient care into a general, adult intensive care unit.

The decision to admit patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease to ICU is polarising. In this podcast, Dr Simon Hazeldine uncovers the evidence behind outcomes and management of these patients and why these patients should be considered for therapy in the ICU.

In this podcast, Mr Larbalestier shares his experiences with cardiac transplantation and guides us through some his POV footage of the first heart transplantation at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital.