Intensive Care Network Podcasts

A case based discussion on the different types of shock encountered in ICU and how shock is diagnosed

A summary of my experiences at the second and third days of the ESICM. Links include: Here is the IMPACT calculator for prognosticating in traumatic brain injury For the Brain Tissue Oxygen Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury (BOOST 2) go here For Simon Finfer's talk on the DECRA study click here  The Girault paper: Noninvasive Ventilation and Weaning in Patients with Chronic Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure For lung ultrasound, you should look at both the Bouhamed paper and the Sartori paper, both here in fulltext for free. There are a few lung ultrasound videos out there too, like this one The BLUE protocol is here Brain trauma foundation guidelines are here Free fulltext of ECASS III is here Martin Smith on intracerebral haemorrhage is all summarised here A good summary of treating refractory status epilepticus is here Some good neuro papers from the last year: Cerebral tissue oxygenation measured by two different probes: challenges and interpretation For the paper on measuring brain temperature with MRI

A description of some of the presentations I attended on the first day of this year's ESICM conference in Berlin. Here are links to some of the material discussed in this Podcast: For the WHO Malaria Guidelines, look here For an article on paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity, go here For more about VAP, there's this, and for prevention, look here. Here is the JAMA paper on hydrocortisone in multi-trauma patients For review on NAVA look here. Here is the key Subarachnoid Haemorrhage paper: Critical Care Management of Patients Following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Recommendations from the Neurocritical Care Society’s Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference

An interview with Professor Richard Lee discussing the role of intensive care specialsits now and in the future.

A podcast on the acute management of spinal cord injury from an Australian Emergency Department and intensive Care perspective.

A brief podcast on strategies to help wean a patient from mechanical ventilation.

A case-based podcast on the acute management of intra-cerebral haemorrhage by Oliver Flower, an intensive care specialist from Sydney. It accompanies a recent review article: Flower O, Smith M. The acute management of intracerebral hemorrhage. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2011 Apr;17(2):106-14.