Bite size chunks of critical care medicine targeted at fellowship exam preparation
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Following on from the recent post on Heparin, today we're going to talk about one of its more significant complications – Heparin Induced Thromboyctopaenia or HIT for short. In my ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Following on from our initial post in this entirely accidental series on “things you don't want to find in the chest drain” we turn our eyes (if not our noses) ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we look at quite a niche topic, that of chylothorax. We are used to many things in the pleural space, like simple fluid or blood or air but the ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. We're going to cover a bit of an environmental/tox topic today and look at carbon monoxide poisoning from Oh's manual chapter 83 on burns. I have previously covered this on ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. We've been talking about pulmonary hypertension, last time we had a pretty broad overview with a focus on group 1 or pulmonary arterial hypertension. This time we're going to go ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This time we're looking at pulmonary hypertension. Mainly cause I recently had to give a talk on it so it's fresh in my rapidly diminishing brain cells and thought I ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Last time i was butchering my way through a diagnostic approach to hyponatraemia, particularly the forms likely to end up in the critical care end of the hospital. This time ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we cover an incredibly common inpatient issue – hypnatraemia. We'll often find 1 or 2 of these in our high dependency unit at any given time, mainly due to ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we'll cover some key exam content, all be it not something you're likely to run into in the ICU too often. The thyroid is a deceptive little organ, tucked ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we'll talk about one of the niche and shall I say “advanced” in inverted commas therapies in intensive care practice. ECMO. And to be precise we'll be talking about ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Way back in the way back in tasty morsel number 43 we discussed inotropes and vasopressors but there was a noticeable AHD analogue shaped hole in that post that i ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we're going to verge into challenging territory for an audio podcast in that we're going to the discuss the very visual topic of dynamic LV outflow tract obstruction. This ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Following hot on the heels of tasty morsel number 72 on cardio renal syndrome is its partner in nephron injury: hepatorenal syndrome. This gets covered in a sub section of ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we tackle a somewhat nebulous syndrome. Something we throw around with a few hand wavy explanations but often light on detail. Hopefully in a few minutes you'll at least ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Oh Chapter 37 is dedicated to NIV in the ICU and is probably worth some time given that this is a common respiratory support both in the ICU and throughout ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we're covering the ambitious topic of CRRT in the ICU. Something that occupies a central part of the daily job, but also occupies Oh Chapter 48, Irwin and Rippe ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Nestled towards the end of Oh Chapter 51 we have a section dedicated to SAH. Given that a lot of ICU bed days are given over to managing SAH, I ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we are going to talk about triggering on the ventilator. Now given the ubiquity of the word “triggering” in contemporary discourse I must confess that i do find it ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we are going to do our best to charm the yellow snake of the intensive care unit and cover the pulmonary artery floatation catheter. Like a lot, indeed practically ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This time we look at Oh Chapter 52, focused on cerebral protection. There is, I must admit some repetition and cross over here, particularly with tasty morsels 20 and 39 ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. The subject of solid tumours in the ICU gets a whole chapter in Oh's hallowed pages, number 46. I suppose the term solid is in place to distinguish it from ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. In yet another departure from the stone tablets of Oh's manual, today we'll talk a little about one of favourite gram +ve cocci: staphylococcus aureus. Diagnosis and management of infections ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we're not so much looking at a chapter of Oh's manual but at the physiologic concept of respiratory compliance. I approach this with a degree of trepidation as the ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we're going to talk about some of the basics of some of our favorite drugs intensive care – the diuretics. As always this is planned to be a brief ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we're looking at asthma. In reality I find this is much more commonly discussed than seen in real life. No doubt this is due in part, to an improvement ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Oh chapter 26 devotes a whole chapter to this and for those of us in cardiac units the arrival of several post cardiac surgery patients a day in your unit ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we're talking about dead space. While it may sound like something from The Expanse, we're actually talking about the physiological concept of dead space here. This is pretty core ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Of the many things I poorly understand, I suspect that haematology holds a special place. Knowing the intricacies of the haematological malignancies was not exactly core knowledge for emergency medicine ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we're looking at a small section of Oh Chapter 58 covering myasthenia gravis. I don't think I've ever looked after a true myasthenic crisis in the ICU. Likely because ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we look at everyone's favorite mould – aspergillus. We see a number of fungal infections in the ICU, most commonly it'll be the yeasts – forms of candida. Yeasts ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This time round we'll look at an oldie but a goodie: salicylate poisoning. I have not seen one of these in quite some time but it is a classic tox ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This time round we're going to have a look at some chest wall injuries you should know about. The main reference here is Oh's manual chapter 79. The vast majority ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Usually the topics here follow the well trodden path of Oh's manual, but we're looking at something primarily because it is an ideal question for a fellowship exam. In this ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. There's not a huge amount of notes on procedural stuff that I accumulated for the exams but I did collect some interesting bits on bronchoscopy, particularly because it was so ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Sometimes the tasty morsels are exam sized snippets of my knowledge on a given topic. More frequently they are literally all I know on the subject. Today's topic of parenteral ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This is number 50, so for all 7 of you out there, well done for making it this far especially when you can't even get CPD points for it. Today ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we'll look at everyone's favourite yeast – Candida. Firstly, remember the distinction between yeasts and moulds. Yeasts, like Candida species are single celled critters whereas moulds like aspergillus are ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we look at anaphylaxis. Oh's Manual 67 forms the basis for most of this. In many ways this is fairly straightforward. You give adrenaline and they get better. However ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This week we'll make a fly by at part of Oh Chapter 100 looking at haemostatic failure. The understanding of the haemostatic system seems a little like the universe at ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This week we're looking at the other ACS, the surgical ACS, the old abdominal compartment syndrome. This is common, especially in the surgical population and does not always immediately jump ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Oh dedicates an entire chapter, number 88 to CBRN issues. While not commonly seen you can rest assured that critical care will be expected to turn up and manage these ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. It is with trepidation that I approach any topic that involves the negative feedback loops of endocrine control as I really struggle to keep it all straight in my head, ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Condensing all of “inotropes and vasopressors” into a single 5 minute podcast is of course doomed to fail but that's never stopped me before. The main reference for this is ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. In a further scandalous departure from Oh's Manual today we're going to look at a chapter of verified Irish Critical Care legend, Martin Tobin's huge mechanical ventilation textbook. I have ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we're going to talk about a fairly rare and niche issue in critical care – gas embolism. The venerated stone tablets of Oh's Manual do not mention it in ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. With extreme brevity we are going to try and cover Oh's Manual Chapter 38 on respiratory monitoring. This is something of a hodge podge i must admit. I'll start by ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This is part of Oh's Manual Chapter 77 on head injury and we covered ICP monitoring before in number 20. A key principle here is cerebral perfusion pressure or CPP. ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Oh's Manual chapter 104 has a decent chapter on the intensive care aspects of lung transplant. A lot of this stuff ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. This week: serotonin syndrome. Much talked about, very common in an exam, quite rare in real life. It doesn't really get ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Today we're talking a little about that most vital of gases – oxygen. This is going to be back to some ... Read More »
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. Today we'll talk about CRRT timing. When should your critically ill patient take a spin on the green machine? From an ... Read More »
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