Podcast appearances and mentions of rob mac sweeney

Rob Mac Sweeney discusses the ACIOS study with Tim Baker, the study lead. ACIOS is a point prevalence study describing the burden of critical illness in Africa. It was published in the Lancet in March, 2025.

Rob Mac Sweeney discusses the IVIO trial with investigators Lars Wiuff Andersen and Mikael Fink Valentine from Aarhus, Denmark. The IVIO trial compared intraosseous with intravenous vascular access in adult patients suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. It was presented at the 2024 European Resuscitation Council congress in Athens and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Rob Mac Sweeney discusses the PARAMEDIC 3 trial with it's investigators Keith Couple and Ranjit Lall from the University of Warwick, England. PARAMEDIC 3 compared intravenous with intraosseous vascular access in adult patients suffering cardiac arrest and requiring drug administration during ongoing resuscitation. It was presented at the European Resuscitation Council meeting in Athens on October 31st and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Rob Mac Sweeney chats with Jessica Spence about the B-FREE trial, investigating benzodiazepine-free anaesthesia for the prevention of delirium in cardiac surgery

Dr Francois Lamontagne joins Rob Mac Sweeney to discuss the harmonised REMAP-CAP / LOVIT-COVID vitamin C trial. The trial was presented at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine annual congress and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Scott Berry (Austin) and Danny McAuley (Belfast) join Rob Mac Sweeney to discuss the results of the statin domain of the REMAP-CAP trial, investigating 80mg once daily of simvastatin in critically ill patients with COVID-19.

Dr Rob Mac Sweeney is an Intensivist at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, and the lead organizer for the Critical Care Review, both the website and conference. 2023's conference is June 14-16, and streamed from the Titanic Centre in Belfast. Join us as Dr. Mac Sweeney explains what makes this meeting one of the top conferences in Critical Care. Follow this link for the 20223 meeting: CCR23 (criticalcarereviews.com)

Rob Mac Sweeney hosts a panel discussion on the results of the FIRST ABC trial, comparing HFNO with CPAP in recently extubated children. The panelists are Martha A.Q. Curley (Philadelphia), Christopher M. Horvat (Pittsburgh), Martin Kneyber (Groningen), and David Harrison (London). They are joined by Padmanabhan Ramnarayan (chief investigator), Alvin Richards-Belle (trial manager) and Adrienne Randolph (editorialist).

Pär Johansson from Copenhagen joins Rob Mac Sweeney to discuss the fascinating phase II COMBAT-COVID trial, investigating prostacyclin in intubated patients with COVID-19 and severe endotheliopathy. The trial was published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in November 2021.

Naomi Hammond and Simon Finfer join Rob Mac Sweeney to discuss the reaction of the critical care community to the presentation and publication of both the PLUS trial and the systematic review and meta analysis comparing balanced solutions with 0.9% saline in the critically ill.

Drs Brian Driver and Matt Prekker join Rob Mac Sweeney to address some of the questions and comments that arose following the presentation and publication of the BOUGIE trial, comparing the use of a stylet with that of a bougie in emergency intubation.

Chief investigator Lars Andersen joins Rob Mac Sweeney to address some of the questions and comments that arose following the presentation and publication of the VAM-IHCA trial results, investigating vasopressin and methylprednisolone for in-hospital cardiac arrest.

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney talks with Prof. Alistair Nichol about ivermectin, one of the latest interventions added to the REMAP-CAP trial. He explains why this intervention is implemented into the trial despite the controversy surrounding the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. 

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney talks with  Dr. Lennie Derde about her background in critical care, infectious diseases and research, all the output generated by REMAP-CAP so far and her view on how this pandemic is likely to progress.

BaSICS trial leads Drs Fernando Zampieri & Alexandre Biasi Cavalcante join Rob Mac Sweeney to address some of the questions and comments that arose following the presentation and publication of the BaSICS trial results.

Niklas Nielsen, the chief investigator for the TTM2 trial, joins Rob Mac Sweeney to address some of the questions and comments that arose following the presentation and publication of the TTM2 trial results.

Prof Manu Shankar-Hari, the lead for the WHO REACT group's prospective meta analysis on interleukin 6 antagonism in patients hospitalised with COVID-19, joins Rob Mac Sweeney to discuss this important work

Prof Giuseppe Citerio (Milan) joins Rob Mac Sweeney to discuss  the global SYNAPSE-ICU study, investigating the use of intracranial pressure monitoring in acute brain injury.

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney talks with professor Derek Angus about the interaction between clinical research and clinical practice.

Professor Kath Maitland joins Rob Mac Sweeney to discuss the COAST trial, investigating oxygen therapy in African children with severe pneumonia.

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney talks with professor Alistair Nichol about the new Ventilation domain of REMAP-CAP.

In the latest episode on the REMAP-CAP series, Prof Alistair Nichol (Dublin / Melbourne) discuss the upcoming ventilation domain with Rob Mac Sweeney.

Professors Vincenzo Russotto and Sheila Myatra join Rob Mac Sweeney to discuss their INTUBE study, investigating tracheal intubation practices in the critically ill around the world.

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney talks with professor Mathias Pletz about pandemics and the COVID-19 pandemic mode of REMAP-CAP.

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney talks with Dr. Scott Berry about the statistical plan of REMAP-CAP.

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney talks with professor John Marshall and assistant professor Srinivas Murthy about the interventions in REMAP-CAP.

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney talks with professor Steve Webb about the design of REMAP-CAP. In this episode we describe the rationale behind the trial and its origin.

Critical Care Reviews' Rob Mac Sweeney dives into the details of the first REMAP-CAP results with senior investigators Derek Angus and Tony Gordon. In this episode we discuss the corticosteroids manuscript published in JAMA and put the results into context.

Rob Mac Sweeney is an intensivist working at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He founded and runs Critical Care Reviews, a free, not-for-profit critical care educational project spanning a website, journal watch facility, newsletter, international meeting, annual book and podcast. He also co-founded a platinium open access journal, Critical Care Horizons. Rob is a passionate believer that scientific advances, especially through publically funded research, should be available to all and works to promote open access to such work through Critical Care Reviews and Critical Care Horizons. Alex Psirides is an Intensive Care specialist working in Wellington, having trained in London, Melbourne and New Zealand. He has been involved in the design and implementation of Rapid Response Systems in several different hospitals. Because of this, he is clinical lead for the New Zealand Health Quality & Safety Commission’s national ‘Deteriorating Patient’ programme. In his spare time, when not walking his dog or his children, he builds websites & designs logos for Wellington ICU’s prodigious research department. He has nearly written a lot more research papers & as such needs to spend less time on Twitter. He also once ventilated a chimpanzee but it didn’t end well (for the chimp).

Shay McGuinness from Auckland, New Zealand, discuss the ongoing PEPTIC Trial with Rob Mac Sweeney, on the Critical Care Reviews Podcast

Glenn Eastwood from Melbourne, Australia, discusses the TAME cardiac arrest trial with Rob Mac Sweeney, on the Critical Care Reviews Podcast

Rob Mac Sweeney discusses the ICU-ROX trial with its chief investigator Paul Young. This trial evaluates the effect of lowering the FiO2 in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU.

In this episode I mention the new ACCRAC mailing list which you can sign up for with the link right below the show description on the website accrac.libsyn.com.  You can also post comments on the website and email questions to accrac@accrac.com or accracpodcast@gmail.com.  I also highlight Rob MacSweeney’s fantastic critical care site called criticalcarereviews.com and his newsletter which … Continue reading "Episode 4: Obstructive Lung Disease"

Jellybean Redux with Rob MacSweeney of www.CritCareReviews.com  It's a very Irish Jellybean. Rob MacSweeney & Matt MacPartlin in Fairy-Land with one of the greatest punk bands of all time; The Undertones. (It makes sense when you listen to it.) Matt and Rob meet up in a simulated Fairy-Land in Illinois. When this was recorded Rob had just debated Paul Marik (Mr Fluid) at SMACC Chicago and lost despite being one of the best read people in medicine. Maybe the most conspicuous reader around at the moment given his work on www.criticalcarereviews.com Ok, lets do a Checklist;  Read EVERYTHING. Check. Figure how to be a New Consultant in Belfast. Check. Organise SMACC Dublin. Check. And that wasn't enough to keep him occupied so he has set up a new breed of journal in the form of www.criticalcarehorizons.net This is something I had been waiting for a while. It's a fantastic concept and it's free. Actually it is free x free x free. Which means they are proposing to do it all for free. (That sounds like a lot of work.) The idea is fantastic but it requires buy in from all #FOAMed types. A lot of us are educators and a few of us are researchers. Rob and Andrew Ferguson are doing the heavy lifting but check out the team behind them. It is a balanced "who's who?" of #FOAMed and established world leaders. Rob and Andrew are relaunching the site before SMACC Dublin. Have a dig around the site. Have a think about what it might mean to the anarchic #FOAMed community. Have a think about what it might do for you. Then, perhaps, put your research where your mouth is and submit. Why shouldn’t new research or reviews not be put out for free and immediately on the web? Why Not have original Research on www.LifeintheFastLane.com ?  It is a difficult thing they are trying to do. Not a penny is being made. Plenty of pennies have to be spent. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" Bird? Plane? Superman? Nope. (Watch out for the correct pronunciation of the word "Super" at the end. Always good to keep up with the Gold Standards of Elocution while you're having some Jellybeans.) Thanks to the peerless Northern Irish Punk Band The Undertones for making the track “Here comes the summer” and recording it with John Peel in 1989.(Sir John Peel, Saint John Peel, The John Peel.) www.criticalcarereviews.com/index.php www.criticalcarehorizons.net

Rob MacSweeney and Paul Marik debate whether the assessment of fluid responsiveness in the resuscitation of patients with shock a waste of time? Both Marik and MacSweeney agree that many of the traditional methods of assessing patients volume status are flawed and of no value. Marik goes on to argue that the only clinically meaningful outcome that we should measure in response to a fluid challenge is Stoke Volume. In at least 50% of patients there is no improvement in stroke volume and further treatment with fluid boluses will only likely cause harm. Marik goes on to argue that we must know where our patients are position on their Frank-Starling curve to predict whether they are fluid responsive and we can assess this with passive led raise.

This podcast was recorded backstage at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting in January 2015 at the Galgorm Resort in Northern Ireland. The meeting is hosted annually by Rob Mac Sweeney, the creator and curator of the awesome Critical Care Reviews website. The intro and outro track is from Spiedkiks "Take off your make up", a creative commons free music download.

Anand ‘Swami' Swaminathan is an Emergency Physician in New York. He is one of the co-creators of EM Lyceum, and a major contributor to LITFL.com. Swami is a skeptic of the benefit of adrenaline in cardiac arrest. This is his brief response to Scott Weingart's Cutting Edge Intra-Arrest Care at smaccGOLD and Weingart's subsequent discussion about intra-arrest meds with Rob Mac Sweeney on EMCrit.

I told you today we would have a bit of discussion on Rob Mac Sweeney's FOAM. Well here it is...

Rob Mac Sweeny on the Intra-Arrest Talk

The third of the three part literature review extravaganza with Chris Nickson and Rob Mac Sweeney. This time, it's the best of the rest...

Chris Nickson and Rob MacSweeney discuss the top 10 RCTs of 2013 in critical care.