Welcome to the first ever podcast from Critical Care Practitioner. This is an exciting project for me and I hope one that will continue to develop and improve over time. The intention is to cover a variety of subjects from those directly linked to critical care such as research, learning resources, websites involved in critical […] The post CCP Podcast 001: Introduction and Interview with Teresa Chinn from @WeNurses appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Oct 16, 2018•47 min
PLEASE go to www.life-saver.org.uk to see the fantastic job this podcasts interviewee has done of making the teaching of basic life support so much easier. I was blown away when I came across it, even as an experienced ALS team member. It sucks you in and gets you involved. To the novice it is a wonderful […] The post CCP Podcast 031: From Lifesaver to LightSabre!! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Oct 16, 2018•43 min
ICU acquired weakness or polyneuropathy An interview with Dr John Kress, an ITU physician from the University of Chicago. Dr Kress is a highly respected and well published doctor with an interest in ICU acquired weakness or polyneuropathy, one of his more well known papers being ” Daily Interruption of Sedative Infusions in Critically Ill Patients […] The post CCP Podcast 012: Get my feet to the floor…please! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Oct 16, 2018•39 min
How high should I sit my patient? Should we measure the angle of the bed? I was lucky enough to be able to chat to Louise Rose again. She and I first had a conversation back on CCP Podcast 013: Mind and Body. In this episode we talk about a study she was involved in, […] The post CCP Podcast 042: What angle should I sit my patient at? appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Oct 16, 2018•34 min
This is the second of a series of podcasts with Ollie Poole who was a respiratory therapist in Canada and is now doing his medical training. You can listen to the first episode if you wish… CCP Podcast 018: Mechanical Ventilation…. We go back to some of the basics here, discussing some of the reasons and […] The post CCP Podcast 024: Mechanical Ventilation….the basics. appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Oct 16, 2018
Wendy Sinclair (@wlasinclair) is a lecturer in childrens nursing at Salford University and has been there for the last eight years. She started using Twitter about a year ago as a way of engaging the Salford Nursing Students. Also to see how they could use social media in both a professional and social capacity. She […] The post CCP Podcast 033: Calling all students…. appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 24, 2018•44 min
Kirsten Kingma (@surferkirst) is currently a medical student, traning to be one of the Doctors in South Africa who started her health care career as a paramedic We start by talking about the role of the paramedic in South Africa and how the different funding system impacts upon health care. We also talk about the […] The post CCP Podcast 032: Hello South Africa! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 24, 2018•39 min
I am lucky enough to get to chat to Teresa Chinn from @WeNurses. I first spoke with Teresa on my very first podcast and since then we have both grown our various enterprises. Teresa has been awarded an MBE in the New Years honours list this year and it is thoroughly deserved for all her […] The post CCP Podcast 025: Teresa Gets A Gong! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 07, 2018•43 min
It’s no secret that I love a good SMACC. For those that don’t know this stands for social media and critical care and has been a conference in Australia held over the last two years. The last conference was on Australia’s Gold Coast and the philosophy behind these conferences is summed up by free open […] The post CCP Podcast 009: SMACC me hard! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 07, 2018•41 min
Simon Hayward (aka @sonophysio) is a great advocate of lung ultrasound in the critical care patient. He currently is running a very popular course with one of his medical colleagues to help introduce people to this technique. He is busy! We talk about the reasons for doing so as well as discussing the recent conference […] The post CCP Podcast 074: Lung Ultrasound with Sonophysio appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 07, 2018•44 min
Non-pharmacological interventions for sleep promotion in the intensive care unit Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015 Oct It is well-known that patients in the intensive care units do suffer from a lack of sleep and frequent sleep disturbances. So how can we help the ITU patient sleep? This is a Cochrane review looking at the efficacy […] The post CCP Podcast 044: Helping The ITU Patient Sleep. appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 07, 2018•18 min
This episode of the Critical Care Practitioner is going to focus on some of the other podcasts I listen to which influence my practice as a critical care practitioner and which I think will be useful to those of you pout there who want to keep up to date with current practice and thinking. How […] The post CCP Podcast 004 : Great Medical Podcasts to Listen To. appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 07, 2018•29 min
My friend and colleague Dr Nitin Arora (@aroradrn) has just completed his Focussed Intensive Care Echocardiography (FICE) course and has managed to complete the 50 required scans in 63 days! It can be done. Segun (@iceman_ex) and I chat with him about his experience. Interview Questions for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners The Content on the website […] The post CCP Podcast 080: Nitin does FICE….quickly! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 07, 2018•37 min
This podcast is a discussion with one of the main organisers of the SMACC event later this year, Oli Flower (@OliFlower). The conference is looming fast, in June of this year in Chicago. We discuss the past conferences and the ethos behind them and the upcoming one. Oli is also involved with the Intensive Care Network […] The post CCP Podcast 030: SMACC it! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Sep 07, 2018•46 min
“Practicing Critical Care Like an Adult” This is the first podcast with my new co-host Bryan Boling without me! He has chosen to have a discussion with Brandon Oto (@critconcepts). Brandon is a PA in the Washington DC area who also writes a blog called Critical Concepts (http://www.critcon.org). The episode discusses maturing as a provider […] The post CCP Podcast 092: Practicing Critical Care Like An Adult appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Aug 30, 2018•35 min
“Have you ever wanted the speaker to fail?” In this episode of the podcast I speak with Dr Ross Fisher (@ffolliet) about presentation skills. Many of us have sat through ‘death by powerpoint’ and have come away non the wiser afterwards. Having watched a lot of TED talks I can testify that a good presentation […] The post CCP Podcast 035: 5 Tips for Better Presentations. appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Aug 25, 2018•55 min
I would like to introduce you all to Bryan Boling (@bryanboling) who is a critical care nurse practitioner over in the States. He is going to be a regular contributor to the podcast and he has many ideas and topics he wants to cover. In this episode, we talk about the differences and similarities of the practitioner role […] The post CCP Podcast 091: Practitioners Across the Pond appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Aug 25, 2018•30 min
This episode features Ken Spearpoint. Ken is Consultant Nurse, Resuscitation, Hammersmith Hospital & Principal Lecturer, Medical Simulation, University of Hertfordshire. Ken is very experienced in the area of resuscitation, having been working in this field since the 1990’s. He has seen the service develop a lot in that time and that is discussed in the podcast. […] The post CCP Podcast 005 : Chat with Ken Spearpoint. appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Aug 01, 2018•54 min
I was fortunate to be able to have a good chat at the ICS State of the Art 2016 conference with Roger Harris (@RogerrdHarris), Danni Bear (@Danni_Dietician), Ella Segaran @ESegaran) and Todd Rice about their interpretation of the Nutrition Guidelines released last year. Todd is one of the original authors and both Ella and Danni […] The post CCP Podcast 054: Nutrition Guidelines at ICSSOA2016 appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Jul 02, 2018•39 min
A follow up discussion from my chat with Garry Swann in episode 15 of CCP Podcast. Garry is the Consultant nurse lead in the Emergency Department at the Heart of England NHS Trust and is one of the main driving forces behind the development of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner roles at this trust. The plans we […] The post CCP Podcast 020: More Power to Practitioners! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Jul 02, 2018•36 min
The three boys get together again to talk about the papers of the month. A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Ramped Position versus Sniffing Position during Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults Semler et al, 2017. Clinical question. In critically ill adults requiring endotracheal intubation, does the ramped position increase the lowest oxygen saturation […] The post CCP Podcast 067: Papers of the Month June 2017 appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Jun 11, 2018•34 min
I was lucky enough to be invited to the Home Mechanical Ventilation Conference in June 2017 by Rachael Moses (@rachaelmoses) and Professor Nick Hart (@NickHartThorax) and this is one of the presentations I thought you might like to hear. Bariatric surgery has become almost routine now and Andrew Jenkinson tells us why. Diets will never seem […] The post CCP Podcast 073: Bariatric Surgery in the Management of Obesity appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Mar 19, 2018•32 min
In an attempt to further my understanding of some of the methods used in research Gavin Denton (@dentongavin) and I had a discussion about the SepsisPAM trial below. This is a new approach on the podcast and one which I hope people will find useful. We go through the article using a systematic approach, and […] The post CCP Podcast 019 : SepsisPAM analysed. Gav and Jonathan try to work it out! appeared first on Critical Care Practitioner ....
Mar 19, 2018•41 min
