Podcasts about intensive care network

Dr. Oliver Flower is a British Intensive Care Consultant based at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He is one of the creators of the SMACC conference which has been a driving force for the social media-driven revolution in medical education. He is passionate about Neurocritical Care, graphic design and Mixed Martial Arts (he practices jiu jitsu and has worked as a cage-side doctor). He also runs the educational and networking site Intensive Care Network. Accompanying blog post at pondermed.com

CICMxJellybean 7 Recorded at ASM 2018 Hobart Professor Michael Pinsky, Researcher extraordinaire and on the editorial board of almost every journal in critical care. Michael Pinsky needs no introduction. Literally none. Michael is a giant of North American and International Intensive Care research and practice. It is difficult to understate his achievements to date; hundreds of articles, hundreds of chapters and hundreds of lectures delivered at international conferences. The best person to tell you about Michael Pinsky is Michael Pinsky. Sit back and behold. Here are Michaels talks from CICM ASM in Hobart available at Intensive Care Network; http://intensivecarenetwork.com/can-we-be-intensive-and-non-invasive-by-professor-michael-pinsky/ http://intensivecarenetwork.com/pathophysiology-of-acute-heart-failure-in-icu/ The CICM ASM 2018 (CICMxJellybean) Podcasts are part of the larger series known as the Jellybean podcast recorded at conferences and meetings all over the world by fast-talking Irish doctor Doug Lynch. Doug was not paid to record, edit and distribute the podcasts. The Jellybean podcast is available through iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud and via www.TheTopEnd.org The CICM ASM organisers requested that we interview the main international speakers but that doesn’t stop us doing what we usually do…. interview anyone with a good story. There will be 5 or 6 “normal” Jellybeans coming from the Hobart ASM. Photographs were taken and used with the permission of the interviewee. The Intro and Outro music clips used in this series of Podcasts are courtesy of Swedish artist Ikson. Ikson’s work can be found on Soundcloud; https://soundcloud.com/ikson

Chris Hicks is @HumanFact0rz He is into Human Factors. He is reading about Human Factors. He is writing about Human Factors. He is on stage, he is on EMCrit, he is on fire. But it’s a smouldering kind of fire, a nice fire, not a raging forest fire. A raging forest fire would be a better metaphor for what drove Chris into Human Factors; a bunch of over heated but talented egos coming together, with the all the poise of a conflagration, in a trauma bay. I met Chris first in Dublin, with a bunch of other erudite, humorous and well grounded Canadians. There does seem to be a rich vein of talent up there. What’s happening in Canada? Is it all as good as it looks from afar? Or does Justin Trudeau just look handsome and apologise a lot? Maybe its just the contrast to that orange person to the south that some people call Mr President? Either way I keep meeting charming gifted Canadians. So that bit is good. The orange guy is a worry. In an effort to improve those trauma bay infernos Chris and his chum Andrew Petrosoniak have recently edited/curated a special EMClinics of North America. It is a trauma special and being Chris, you know the Human Factors stuff will be good. That’s just the start of it too. He has people from all over the place in there. Amal Mattu, George Kovaks, Katrin Hruska, Brian Burns, Paul Engels, Karim Brohi and Captain America. That’s a lot of FOAMed types and a few superheroes too. Some of the EMClinics chapters will available for free until the end of December 2017. You can get free PDF’s from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07338627 I reckon we should all download it. If the EMClinics of North America that was free for a while gets double or triple the downloads that it normally achieves then the publishers would surely sit up and take notice. That might cause a little disruption. Chris is good at that disruptive stuff. It is worth remembering that all this #FOAMed stuff is not necessarily safe from harm. If we lost a few major protagonists for whatever reason then how would FOAMed change? It is all happening because a relatively small number of people put a relatively huge amount of effort in. I don’t think we can get complacent. We certainly have not achieved universally free medical education have we? #FOAMed is great but conventional medical education is not getting any cheaper. Meanwhile if you’re reading this on Lifeinthefastlane, Intensive Care Network or TheTopEnd.org you’ll hopefully appreciate that you couldn’t possibly get any thing any cheaper. F is for Free. House keeping; the CVC Checklist guy I couldn’t remember was Peter Pronovost from John Hopkins. More housekeeping; the tunes are provided by Mood Ruff, a Hip Hop crew from Winnipeg. You can find them on iTunes but you won’t find that track, No Hooks. (12 inch vinyl from 1989.) You can get more Hicks at EMCrit.org and @HumanFact0rz on twitter. You can get more Jellybeans on iTunes and Stitcher Radio. (Links Below) You can find collections on www.lifeinthefastlane.com and www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com Special interest playlists (emergency, pre-hospital, intensive care etc) are put together on www.soundcloud.com/TheTopEnd and they all live happily together at www.TheTopEnd.org

Professor Lars Lundell. Professor of Surgery Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm. What this man doesn’t know about the oesophagus is probably not worth knowing. What he knows about so many other things is worth knowing. Professor Lundell's visit to Australia will not soon be forgotten. His distinct style and his willingness to grasp controversial issues made his multiple lectures at the ASM memorable. From his first talk about critical care aspects of GI surgery to his last asking “Is obesity a surgical disease?” Lars repeatedly surprised the audience. During this recording he again surprises with his commentary upon obesity, bariatric surgery and its future. The talk turns to the real public health problem we have to face and thus to global politics. Lars’ talks are worth seeking out via the CICM website. Indeed Lars had so much interesting stuff to say that this podcast, at 30 minutes, is twice the usual length. Sit back and listen.   Each year the CICM holds its Annual Scientific Meeting. The Meeting has always been focused upon a single issue or organ system. This year the theme was Gastroenterology entitled “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.”   The lectures presented at the meeting have been recorded and will all be shared among the delegates and some will also be shared with all comers via the Intensive Care Network (www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com), the celebrated “#FOAMed” website. (Free Open Access Medical Education.)   The organisers of the ASM invited #FOAMed podcaster/interviewer Dr Doug Lynch to come along to engage some of the leading lights of the meeting in conversation and record them. These recordings are the latest in a series of podcasts/blogcasts playfully called “Jellybeans”. They are entirely spontaneous chats with interesting people; short, completely unscripted, 100% unedited and recorded in one take. It is essentially an uninterrupted live recording. The focus is unapologetically on the quality of the conversation rather than the quality of the audio recording.   The host of the interview is a fast talking Irish doctor, a jack of all trades but a master of none, a perpetual student and a trainee of the CICM. The “Jellybean” is an itinerant podcast that regularly appears on www.LifeinTheFastLane.com, www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com and many other websites. Over 100 conversations have been recorded with persons of interest. They are on iTunes and Stitcher Radio.   The CICM ASM Jellybean series each start with a biographical component and then the conversation follows its own path. The subject matter is usually that which dwells upon the fringes of intensive care medicine; human factors, education, ethics, equality, gender, personal histories, possible futures and all the other challenges that we so often face. Being so they compliment the lectures but do not attempt to repeat them.    We hope you enjoy finding out a little more about the people behind the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. The four CICM x Jellybean co-branded recordings are part of a larger collection. It is only these four that are formally associated with the College. Doug Lynch is not a representative of the college and any views expressed are his own. 

Professor Jules Wendon Jules Wendon  is the Professor of Hepatology and Executive Medical Director at Kings College London.  When it comes to the intensive care hepatology there are few people that have done more to shape our knowledge and practice than Jules Wendon. Jules travelled to Australia to share her knowledge at the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. Sharing is a key theme in this interview as Jules insists on  crediting her team, all of her team, for their part in the success of Kings. Humble yet inspirational, modest yet brilliant. Have a listen to this short conversation recorded in between her lectures at the CICM ASM in Sydney 2017. Each year the CICM holds its Annual Scientific Meeting. The Meeting has always been focused upon a single issue or organ system. This year the theme was Gastroenterology entitled “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.” The lectures presented at the meeting have been recorded and will all be shared among the delegates and some will also be shared with all comers via the Intensive Care Network (www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com), the celebrated “#FOAMed” website. (Free Open Access Medical Education.) The organisers of the ASM invited #FOAMed podcaster/interviewer Dr Doug Lynch to come along to engage some of the leading lights of the meeting in conversation and record them. These recordings are the latest in a series of podcasts/blogcasts playfully called “Jellybeans”. They are entirely spontaneous chats with interesting people; short, completely unscripted, 100% unedited and recorded in one take. It is essentially an uninterrupted live recording. The focus is unapologetically on the quality of the conversation rather than the quality of the audio recording. The host of the interview is a fast talking Irish doctor, a jack of all trades but a master of none, a perpetual student and a trainee of the CICM. The “Jellybean” is an itinerant podcast that regularly appears on www.LifeinTheFastLane.com, www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com and many other websites. Over 100 conversations have been recorded with persons of interest. They will appear on iTunes and Google play once the 100th episode is published later this year. The CICM ASM Jellybean series each start with a biographical component and then the conversation follows its own path. The subject matter is usually that which dwells upon the fringes of intensive care medicine; human factors, education, ethics, equality, gender, personal histories, possible futures and all the other challenges that we so often face. Being so they compliment the lectures but do not attempt to repeat them.   We hope you enjoy finding out a little more about the people behind the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. The four CICM x Jellybean co-branded recordings are part of a larger collection.  It is only these four that are formally associated with the College.  Doug Lynch is not a representative of the college and any views expressed are his own.

Associate Professor Charlie Corke President of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM). The CICM is the worlds first stand alone College of Intensive Care Medicine. A/Prof Charlie Corke is the President. It is not an easy job to do. It is not an easy job to get. Charlie got there by a path less travelled and he talks about that path, among many other things, in this short interview recorded at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the College. Each year the CICM holds its Annual Scientific Meeting. The Meeting has always been focused upon a single issue or organ system. This year the theme was Gastroenterology entitled “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.” The lectures presented at the meeting have been recorded and will all be shared among the delegates and some will also be shared with all comers via the Intensive Care Network (www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com), the celebrated “#FOAMed” website. (Free Open Access Medical Education.) The organisers of the ASM invited #FOAMed podcaster/interviewer Dr Doug Lynch to come along to engage some of the leading lights of the meeting in conversation and record them. These recordings are the latest in a series of podcasts/blogcasts playfully called “Jellybeans”. They are entirely spontaneous chats with interesting people; short, completely unscripted, 100% unedited and recorded in one take. It is essentially a live recording. The focus is unapologetically on the quality of the conversation rather than the quality of the audio recording. The host of the interview is a fast talking Irish doctor, a jack of all trades but a master of none, a perpetual student and a trainee of the CICM. The “Jellybean” is an itinerant podcast that regularly appears on www.LifeinTheFastLane.com, www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com and many other websites. Over 100 conversations have been recorded with persons of interest. They will appear on iTunes and Google play once the 100th episode is published later this year. The CICM ASM Jellybean series each start with a biographical component and then the conversation follows its own path. The subject matter is usually that which dwells upon the fringes of intensive care medicine; human factors, education, ethics, equality, gender, personal histories, possible futures and all the other challenges that we so often face. Being so they compliment the lectures but do not attempt to repeat them. We hope you enjoy finding out a little more about the people behind the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. The four CICM x Jellybean co-branded recordings are part of a larger collection. It is only these four that are formally associated with the College. Doug Lynch is not a representative of the college and any views expressed are his own.

College of Intensive Care Medicine x Jellybean Number 2 in a special series of 4 Co-Branded Podcasts Professor Jules Wendon Jules Wendon is the Professor of Hepatology and Executive Medical Director at Kings College London. When it comes to the intensive care hepatology there are few people that have done more to shape our knowledge and practice than Jules Wendon. Jules travelled to Australia to share her knowledge at the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. Sharing is a key theme in this interview as Jules insists on crediting her team, all of her team, for their part in the success of Kings. Humble yet inspirational, modest yet brilliant. Have a listen to this short conversation recorded in between her lectures at the CICM ASM in Sydney 2017. The other jellybeans referred to in this interview are Sarah Yong (#62) and Penny Stewar (#13); https://soundcloud.com/thetopend/sarah-yong-cicm-asm-2017 https://soundcloud.com/thetopend/jellybean-13-with-penny-stewart Each year the CICM holds its Annual Scientific Meeting. The Meeting has always been focused upon a single issue or organ system. This year the theme was Gastroenterology entitled “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.” The lectures presented at the meeting have been recorded and will all be shared among the delegates and some will also be shared with all comers via the Intensive Care Network (www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com), the celebrated “#FOAMed” website. (Free Open Access Medical Education.) The organisers of the ASM invited #FOAMed podcaster/interviewer Dr Doug Lynch to come along to engage some of the leading lights of the meeting in conversation and record them. These recordings are the latest in a series of podcasts/blogcasts playfully called “Jellybeans”. They are entirely spontaneous chats with interesting people; short, completely unscripted, 100% unedited and recorded in one take. It is essentially an uninterrupted live recording. The focus is unapologetically on the quality of the conversation rather than the quality of the audio recording. The host of the interview is a fast talking Irish doctor, a jack of all trades but a master of none, a perpetual student and a trainee of the CICM. The “Jellybean” is an itinerant podcast that regularly appears on www.LifeinTheFastLane.com, www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com and many other websites. Over 100 conversations have been recorded with persons of interest. They will appear on iTunes and Google play once the 100th episode is published later this year. The CICM ASM Jellybean series each start with a biographical component and then the conversation follows its own path. The subject matter is usually that which dwells upon the fringes of intensive care medicine; human factors, education, ethics, equality, gender, personal histories, possible futures and all the other challenges that we so often face. Being so they compliment the lectures but do not attempt to repeat them. We hope you enjoy finding out a little more about the people behind the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. The four CICM x Jellybean co-branded recordings are part of a larger collection. It is only these four that are formally associated with the College. Doug Lynch is not a representative of the college and any views expressed are his own.

Professor John Marshall College of Intensive Care Medicine x Jellybean Number 3 in a special series of 4 Co-Branded Podcasts John Marshall has been at the pointy end of research, in particular sepsis research, for many years. That has been a rather controversial area in recent times. John has navigated those waters with charm and grace. So we took him aside and tried to find out more about his journey and what it journey it is. From Ingmar Bergman to Baragwanath, from working in local occupational health and safety to InFACT; a global network of huge critical care clinical trial groups. Impressive stuff. Impressive personality. Impressive story. (And caterpillars.) Each year the CICM holds its Annual Scientific Meeting. The Meeting has always been focused upon a single issue or organ system. This year the theme was Gastroenterology entitled “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.” The lectures presented at the meeting have been recorded and will all be shared among the delegates and some will also be shared with all comers via the Intensive Care Network (www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com), the celebrated “#FOAMed” website. (Free Open Access Medical Education.) The organisers of the ASM invited #FOAMed podcaster/interviewer Dr Doug Lynch to come along to engage some of the leading lights of the meeting in conversation and record them. These recordings are the latest in a series of podcasts/blogcasts playfully called “Jellybeans”. They are entirely spontaneous chats with interesting people; short, completely unscripted, 100% unedited and recorded in one take. It is essentially an uninterrupted live recording. The focus is unapologetically on the quality of the conversation rather than the quality of the audio recording. The host of the interview is a fast talking Irish doctor, a jack of all trades but a master of none, a perpetual student and a trainee of the CICM. The “Jellybean” is an itinerant podcast that regularly appears on www.LifeinTheFastLane.com, www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com and many other websites. Over 100 conversations have been recorded with persons of interest. They will appear on iTunes and Google play once the 100th episode is published later this year. The CICM ASM Jellybean series each start with a biographical component and then the conversation follows its own path. The subject matter is usually that which dwells upon the fringes of intensive care medicine; human factors, education, ethics, equality, gender, personal histories, possible futures and all the other challenges that we so often face. Being so they compliment the lectures but do not attempt to repeat them. We hope you enjoy finding out a little more about the people behind the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. The four CICM x Jellybean co-branded recordings are part of a larger collection. It is only these four that are formally associated with the College. Doug Lynch is not a representative of the college and any views expressed are his own.

Professor Lars Lundell College of Intensive Care Medicine x Jellybean Number 4 in a special series of 4 Co-Branded Podcasts Professor Lars Lundell. Professor of Surgery Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm. What this man doesn’t know about the oesophagus is probably not worth knowing. What he knows about so many other things is worth knowing. Professor Lundell's visit to Australia will not soon be forgotten. His distinct style and his willingness to grasp controversial issues made his multiple lectures at the ASM memorable. From his first talk about critical care aspects of GI surgery to his last asking “Is obesity a surgical disease?” Lars repeatedly surprised the audience. During this recording he again surprises with his commentary upon obesity, bariatric surgery and its future. The talk turns to the real public health problem we have to face and thus to global politics. Lars’ talks are worth seeking out via the CICM website. Indeed Lars had so much interesting stuff to say that this podcast, at 30 minutes, is twice the usual length. Sit back and listen. Each year the CICM holds its Annual Scientific Meeting. The Meeting has always been focused upon a single issue or organ system. This year the theme was Gastroenterology entitled “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.” The lectures presented at the meeting have been recorded and will all be shared among the delegates and some will also be shared with all comers via the Intensive Care Network (www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com), the celebrated “#FOAMed” website. (Free Open Access Medical Education.) The organisers of the ASM invited #FOAMed podcaster/interviewer Dr Doug Lynch to come along to engage some of the leading lights of the meeting in conversation and record them. These recordings are the latest in a series of podcasts/blogcasts playfully called “Jellybeans”. They are entirely spontaneous chats with interesting people; short, completely unscripted, 100% unedited and recorded in one take. It is essentially an uninterrupted live recording. The focus is unapologetically on the quality of the conversation rather than the quality of the audio recording. The host of the interview is a fast talking Irish doctor, a jack of all trades but a master of none, a perpetual student and a trainee of the CICM. The “Jellybean” is an itinerant podcast that regularly appears on www.LifeinTheFastLane.com, www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com and many other websites. Over 100 conversations have been recorded with persons of interest. They will appear on iTunes and Google play once the 100th episode is published later this year. The CICM ASM Jellybean series each start with a biographical component and then the conversation follows its own path. The subject matter is usually that which dwells upon the fringes of intensive care medicine; human factors, education, ethics, equality, gender, personal histories, possible futures and all the other challenges that we so often face. Being so they compliment the lectures but do not attempt to repeat them. We hope you enjoy finding out a little more about the people behind the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. The four CICM x Jellybean co-branded recordings are part of a larger collection. It is only these four that are formally associated with the College. Doug Lynch is not a representative of the college and any views expressed are his own.

College of Intensive Care Medicine x Jellybean Number 1 in a special series of 4 Co-Branded Podcasts Associate Professor Charlie Corke President of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM). The CICM is the worlds first stand alone College of Intensive Care Medicine. A/Prof Charlie Corke is the President. It is not an easy job to do. It is not an easy job to get. Charlie got there by a path less travelled and he talks about that path, among many other things, in this short interview recorded at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the College. Each year the CICM holds its Annual Scientific Meeting. The Meeting has always been focused upon a single issue or organ system. This year the theme was Gastroenterology entitled “A Gut Reaction; ICU Gastroenterology from beginning to end.” The lectures presented at the meeting have been recorded and will all be shared among the delegates and some will also be shared with all comers via the Intensive Care Network (www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com), the celebrated “#FOAMed” website. (Free Open Access Medical Education.) The organisers of the ASM invited #FOAMed podcaster/interviewer Dr Doug Lynch to come along to engage some of the leading lights of the meeting in conversation and record them. These recordings are the latest in a series of podcasts/blogcasts playfully called “Jellybeans”. They are entirely spontaneous chats with interesting people; short, completely unscripted, 100% unedited and recorded in one take. It is essentially a live recording. The focus is unapologetically on the quality of the conversation rather than the quality of the audio recording. The host of the interview is a fast talking Irish doctor, a jack of all trades but a master of none, a perpetual student and a trainee of the CICM. The “Jellybean” is an itinerant podcast that regularly appears on www.LifeinTheFastLane.com, www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com and many other websites. Over 100 conversations have been recorded with persons of interest. They will appear on iTunes and Google play once the 100th episode is published later this year. The CICM ASM Jellybean series each start with a biographical component and then the conversation follows its own path. The subject matter is usually that which dwells upon the fringes of intensive care medicine; human factors, education, ethics, equality, gender, personal histories, possible futures and all the other challenges that we so often face. Being so they compliment the lectures but do not attempt to repeat them. We hope you enjoy finding out a little more about the people behind the CICM Annual Scientific Meeting. The four CICM x Jellybean co-branded recordings are part of a larger collection. It is only these four that are formally associated with the College.

Sarah Yong is an impressive person. Advocacy, Training, Representation and being a new fellow of the College of Intensive Care to boot. Theres a lot to talk about when you sit down with Dr Sarah Yong. Let’s make it easier by focussing on three big issues; Gender issues; Women in Intensive Care Network.  Training issues; The Critical Care Collaborative and the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM.  The Trainee Symposium at CICM ASM. Representation issues; New Fellows Rep on the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine.   Where to start? The Women in Intensive Care Network or W.I.N.. (or on twitter @WomenIntensive) WIN is co-convened by Sarah and Dr Lucy Modra. Sarah gives all the credit to Lucy. I suspect Lucy might do something equally graceful. If my sources are correct there pretty much the same number of women and men out there in the world. Further it seems that there are roughly the same number of women and men presenting to intensive care units. This pattern does not repeat it self in terms of the Intensive Care doctors. Let’s talk about this. Let’s listen to the people that are raising awareness about this. The Women in Intensive Care are talking about it and publishing about it too. You may have heard about the Medical Journal of Australia article; “Female representation at Australasian specialty conferences”.   But they have not stopped proving their point. Next there was “Women in Leadership in Intensive Care Medicine” published in Jean-Louis Vincents open access e-journal “ICU Management and Practice”. There have been only four presidents of the College of Intensive Care, all male. However the pre-cursor to the College was the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (JFICM), which was the body that actually created the college. The first leader of JFICM was the one and only Dr Felicity Hawker.  Hopefully soon to be published will be a presentation from the Noosa ANZICS CTG (Australia & New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group) by Dr Naomi Yarwood about the lack of women in the ANZICS CTG studies over the last 20 years. Next Issue; Training. After competing her Fellowship exams Sarah got involved in the Critical Care Collaborative and went on to found the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM (VPECC). Running that is a big job in itself. It’s popular too and the July 2017 edition is already full. Sort of. Importantly the candidate stream is full for 2017 but there is a teaching stream too. Have a look at this if you are an aspiring educationalist.

Sarah Yong is an impressive person. Advocacy, Training, Representation and being a new fellow of the College of Intensive Care to boot.   Theres a lot to talk about when you sit down with Dr Sarah Yong. Let’s make it easy by focussing on three big issues;   Gender issues; Women in Intensive Care Network. www.womenintensive.org Training issues; The Critical Care Collaborative and the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM. www.vpecc.com Representation issues; New Fellows Rep on the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine. www.cicm.org Where to start? Women in Intensive Care Network www.womenintensive.org @WomenIntensive If my sources are correct there pretty much the same number of women and men out there in the world. Further it seems that there are roughly the same number of women and men presenting to intensive care units. This pattern does not repeat itself in terms of the Intensive Care doctors. Let’s talk about this. Let’s listen to the people that are raising awareness about this. The Women in Intensive Care are talking about it and publishing about it too. You may have heard about the Medical Journal of Australia article; “Female representation at Australasian specialty conferences”.

Sarah Yong is an impressive person. Advocacy, Training, Representation and being a new fellow of the College of Intensive Care to boot. Theres a lot to talk about when you sit down with Dr Sarah Yong. Let’s make it easy by focussing on three big issues; Gender issues; Women in Intensive Care Network. www.womenintensive.org Training issues; The Critical Care Collaborative and the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM. www.vpecc.com Representation issues; New Fellows Rep on the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine. www.cicm.org Where to start? Women in Intensive Care Network www.womenintensive.org @WomenIntensive If my sources are correct there pretty much the same number of women and men out there in the world. Further it seems that there are roughly the same number of women and men presenting to intensive care units. This pattern does not repeat itself in terms of the Intensive Care doctors. Let’s talk about this. Let’s listen to the people that are raising awareness about this. The Women in Intensive Care are talking about it and publishing about it too. You may have heard about the Medical Journal of Australia article; “Female representation at Australasian specialty conferences”. But they have not stopped proving their point. Next there was “Women in Leadership in Intensive Care Medicine” published in Jean-Louis Vincents open access e-journal “ICU Management and Practice” There have been only four presidents of the College of Intensive Care, all male. However the pre-cursor to the College was the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (JFICM), which was the body that actually created the college. The first leader of JFICM was the one and only Dr Felicity Hawker. Hopefully soon to be published will be a presentation from the Noosa ANZICS CTG (Australia & New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group) by Dr Naomi Yarwood about the lack of women in the ANZICS CTG studies over the last 20 years. Next Issue; Training. After competing her Fellowship exams Sarah got involved in the Critical Care Collaborative and went on to found the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM (VPECC). Running that is a big job in itself. It’s popular too and the July 2017 edition is already full. Sort of. Importantly the candidate stream is full for 2017 but there is a teaching stream too. Have a look at this if you are an aspiring educationalist; http://www.vpecc.com/teaching-stream.html At the time of our conversation the teaching stream not yet full for 2017. It is on in July. Get in touch with Sarah or the other guys at VPECC.com, if not this year maybe next year? Then she is on the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine trying to contribute and trying to gently help the college progress. I’m exhausted already. Have a listen. Be inspired. Get involved. List of speakers at Trainee Symposium Dr Yasmine Ali Abdehamid Dr Michael Ashbolt Dr Bronwyn Avard Dr Celia Bradford Dr Michaela Carter Dr Naomi Diel Dr Kelly Jones Dr Fiona Miles Dr Nhi Nguyen Dr Nudrat Rashid A/Prof Ian Seppelt Dr Li Huey Tan Dr Sarah Yong Dr Paul Young One might notice the slightly different gender imbalance there. A bunch of interesting people who have experience of medical training stretched from Zaria, Nigeria through Leicester, England to Auckland, New Zealand. Which reminds me; may I offer an apology to all New Zealanders for all the times I manage to say Australian rather than Australasian or Australia-New Zealand. References; Women in Leadership in Intensive Care Medicine Modra LJ, Yong SA, Austin DE ICU Management and Practice; 16 (3): 174-6 Female Representation of Australasian specialty conferences. Modra LJ, Austin DE, Yong SA, Chambers EJ and Jones D. MJA 2016; 204(10) 385

This week the podcast features a talk Jenny Beck-Esmay gave at the 11th All NYC EM Conference entitled "Give TXA Now!" https://media.blubrry.com/coreem/content.blubrry.com/coreem/Podcast_Episode_77_0_Final_Cut.m4a Download One Comment Tags: All NYC EM, CRASH-2, Massive Transfusion Protocol, MATTERS, Trauma, TXA Show Notes Take Home Points Giving TXA provides a significant mortality benefit to the any trauma patient requiring massive transfusion with an NNT = 7 for mortality TXA must be given early. Give within 1 hour of injury if possible but the benefit remains up to 3 hours out TXA administration: 1 gram as a bolus followed by 1 gram over the next 8 hours Show Notes Intensive Care Network: Karim Brohi on TXA in Trauma EMCrit: Podcast 67 – Tranexamic Acid (TXA) Core EM: CRASH-2 Tranexamic Acid in Major Trauma References CRASH-2 trial collaborators. Effects of tanexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a ransomised placebo-controlled trial.

This week the podcast features a talk Jenny Beck-Esmay gave at the 11th All NYC EM Conference entitled "Give TXA Now!" https://media.blubrry.com/coreem/content.blubrry.com/coreem/Podcast_Episode_77_0_Final_Cut.m4a Download One Comment Tags: All NYC EM, CRASH-2, Massive Transfusion Protocol, MATTERS, Trauma, TXA Show Notes Take Home Points Giving TXA provides a significant mortality benefit to the any trauma patient requiring massive transfusion with an NNT = 7 for mortality TXA must be given early. Give within 1 hour of injury if possible but the benefit remains up to 3 hours out TXA administration: 1 gram as a bolus followed by 1 gram over the next 8 hours Show Notes Intensive Care Network: Karim Brohi on TXA in Trauma EMCrit: Podcast 67 – Tranexamic Acid (TXA) Core EM: CRASH-2 Tranexamic Acid in Major Trauma References CRASH-2 trial collaborators. Effects of tanexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a ransomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2010; 376: 23-32.

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell  Welcome to Basic Science Clinic.  This is Crit Think episode 6, the final podcast in our mathematics series in which we will discuss the mathematics behind clinical measurement. The use of ever advancing technologies is an inherent and necessary component of critical care, encompassing the most basic of measurement devices (the sphygmomanometer, the stethoscope) to the most complex methods of organ support. Such devices enable continuous monitoring and measurement of physiological variables, informing decision-making processes and underpinning management choices. Unfortunately, the fallibilities of the clinical process extend far beyond that of human error, and increasingly so, as technological developments entail greater reliance on medical devices. Along with this, comes the tendency to overplay the perceived accuracy and precision of such devices, permitting clinical judgment to be overshadowed or misled by numerical outputs. Accuracy and precision are terms that are colloquially interchanged, but in truth carry different meanings and different implications for specific features of the variables they are describing.  While we strive for accuracy, precision represents our chance of reliably achieving it.   In this pod we’ll cover: Accuracy and precision Signal to noise ratio Zeroing and calibration Fourier analysis   Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula Ferdinand De Saussure Word of the day: sententious (adjective). Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner. For feedback, corrections and suggestions you can contact us on our twitter handles @falconzao and @sophmconnolly or post on the Intensive Care Network.  

Basic Science Clinic by Steve Morgan & Sophie Connolly So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple. Tycho Brahe Welcome to Basic Science Clinic, this is Crit think episode 5. Today our exploration of the mathematical architecture of our most inexact of sciences brings us upon the edifice of logarithms and exponentials. Daunting as it may sound, we will try to tease out their utility and relevance to critical care medicine and even attempt to penetrate the secrets of the mysterious number e. Logarithmic transformations permeate pharmacokinetic, biological and physiological modelling.  Exponentials are the inverse function of the logarithm, and the special properties of explosive exponential change in quantities has implications for ventilation, pharmacotherapy and beyond.  Euler’s number, e, represents the idea that all continually growing systems are scaled versions of a common rate. Describing e as a constant approximating 2.718 is like calling pi an irrational number approximating 3.141. It’s true but it totally misses the point. Pi is the ratio between the circumference and diameter of every circle. It is a fundamental ratio and therefore impacts any calculation involving circumference, area, volume and surface area for all circles, spheres and cylinders. e is not just a number it is about the fundamental relationship between all growth rates. Thanks for listening. From The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde: “I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I am saying.” Word of the day: evanescent Literary: soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing. Physics: denoting a field or wave which extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance. For feedback, corrections and suggestions you can contact us on the twitter handles @falconzao and @sophmconnolly or post on Intensive Care Network. Next up is the last in this Crit Think: You Do the Math(s) series and we will examine the mathematics behind clinical measurement.

Simon Finfer is a leading critical care clinical researcher. Hear his candid talk on the reality of research and publication and why it's relevant to you! Go to Intensive Care Network for the slides, videos and more.

It's only two months until the Bedside Critical Care Conference, and this year is looking like a cracker! We're going back to tropical Cairns for the crit care conference with a difference – small, friendly and packed with superb practical crit care education. After popular demand we’re going back to beautiful Queensland in the September/October school holidays. Come to the gateway of the Great Barrier Reef at the perfect time of year, where you’re guaranteed to have a great time, whether you’re there with your family or you’re there for an adventure and a party. Or both. The program this year is all new but follows the popular format of short, practical lectures on clinically relevant crit care topics, and small group workshops with experts teaching you what's not in the books. The Intensive Care Network registrar's day is on the Monday, at a massively discounted rate and has some great bread and butter talks. These include talks on fluids, sedation, nutrition, airways, ECMO and advanced ventilation. On the main program there will be sessions on trauma, microbiology, palliative care and end-of-life situations, paediatrics, coagulation and some panel discussions that mustn't be missed. The workshops will tackle airways once again, end-of-life discussions, some great kit including the ROTEM and Metabolic Carts, as well as some advanced haemodynamic stations, dialysis and crit care radiology. Of course the social program will be special, with a Welcome Reception that is for everyone, including kids and partners and the Gala Dinner promises to be infamous once again. Cairns is a special destination for so many reasons and there are plenty of activities to cater to everyone’s tastes. Whether you want to take the kids to the Wildlife Dome, cruise by catamaran to the paradise that is Green Island or take the cable way up to Kuranda Village over the world heritage rainforest, it’s all doable. We’ve arranged discounted prices for these excursions that you can book on the website. There are still a few spots left so don’t have any regrets – book today! Listen to the 6 minute podcast for more info…

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

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[Full Audio] Oli Flower discusses the tricky issue of prognostication in neuro disasters. This includes intracerrebral haemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage and ischaemic stroke. From Bedside Critical Care 2013 in Cairns. Go to Intensive Care Network for the audio and much more.

Bedside Critical Care Conference 4 in Cairns, Australia in 2013 was a great hit. This short podcast from Oli Flower and Roger Harris discusses the highlights of BCC4 and how these will be shared in the spirit of FOAM on the Intensive Care Network. So look forward to the upcoming videos, podcasts and slides from the workshops and talks given at this conference!

Fran Lockie is a Paediatric Emergency and Retrieval physician currently based in Adelaide. He is quickly becoming a leading expert in paediatric TBI and so was the perfect person to give this talk. The slides that go with it are on Intensive Care Network. If you like these sorts of presentations, come along to Cairns Bedside Critical care this September where we've got a great line up of speakers and we're doing it all again. 

Ed Morris is an Englshman currently hailing from Townsville, Australia who is a superb haematologist. He gave this talk on haem malignancies with specific regards to the critical care aspects at last years bedside critical care conference. The slides are available for free on Intensive Care Network.

Sumesh Arora, an intensivist from Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney talks about what dysbarism is, and the role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. See the slides on Intensive Care Network.

The next BCC talk is by Cath Tacon, an Intensivist who is currently working in Alice Springs. In this talk, Cath tells you everything you need to know about Lipid Rescue Therapy. Incidentally Cath has just written an excellent review paper on bacterial meningitis in kids, which is free access and the link is on Intensive Care Network.

Listen to LITFL's Chris Nickson give 5 pearls on managing cardiotoxic drug overdoses. Punchy and memorable. Never surrender! The excelllent slides are available for free on Intensive Care Network.

Sean Kelly is an Emergency Physician and Intensivist who's the director at Gosford ICU in New South Wales. He's also the medical director at ICCMU. He gave this great talk at Bedside Critical Care 2012 on Daydream Island. He'll be at SMACC. Check out the ICCMU website. Register for SMACC now! See the slides for this podcast at Intensive Care Network.

To open 2013 we've got a podcast that will get your attention. It's on a topic that makes any sensible critical care practitioner sweat more than a little bit: obstetric emergencies.  Nhi Nguyen is an intensivist from Nepean Hospital that specialises in fetomaternal medicine and even she admits it's stressful. Here, Nhi goes through some cases that are easy to relate to and covers the most important topics. It's a bit longer and in more depth than her last taster.  Go to Intensive Care Network to see the slides and add comments. Image credit

Anthony Delaney, an Emergency Physician and Intensivist from Sydney gives an update on Sepsis Resuscitation in 2012, discussing the latest literature and evidence. And he doesn't even talk about ARISE (much)! The slides and notes are available on Intensive Care Network.

Chris (@precordialthump)'s interest in tropical medicine and envenomtion has lead to him becoming a national expert on the matter. This talk on spider bites and marine envenomation covers the latest research on the subject. Best watched with the accompanying slides. This talk was given at the Bedside Critical Care conference 2012. The slides and credits are on Intensive Care Network here

Neil Orford gives tips on how to optimise your CV when applying for a critical care medicine job. The slides are available on Intensive Care Network. Audio snippet credit here.

Roger Harris gives a second presentation on further aspects of preparing for a critical care job interview. This was given at the Bedside Critical Care 2012 registrar's day. The slides are on Intensive Care Network. Sound credit here.

Roger Harris, a senior ED physician and intensivist, gives tips on interview preparation. This was presented at the registrars day at the Bedside Critical Care 2012 conference. Go to Intensive Care Network for more details, slides and credits. 

Paul Lane, an intensivist from Northern Queensland, gives a lecture about Melioidosis and Leptospirosis in the tropical north of Australia. This was presented at the registrars day at Bedside Critical Care 2012 and credits and slides can be found on Intensive Care Network.