By Jonathan Downham: Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, Teaching, Sharing and Interviewing.
As I Learn, You Learn Too
I was lucky enough to be joined by Cath Edwards (@cathedwards_1), a physio up in Lancashire. She attended this years British Thoracic Society 2018 Summer meeting. So I picked her brains about what she heard there. It sounds like a great...
This is an important update from Carole Boulanger and Dr Simon Gardener at the 5th NAACCP conference in London 2017 about some of the changes anticipated for the ACCP body and how they hope the future will pan out. It is...
Psychological well being, health related quality of life and memories of intensive care and a specialised weaning centre reported by survivors of prolonged mechanical ventilation. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 145–151, June 2014 The lead author...
This is a discussion which follows on from CCP Podcast 077: NCEPOD 2017 Acute Non-Invasive Ventilation: Inspiring Change. In this episode, I have a chat about the NCEPOD findings with one of the authors, Mark Juniper and with Vicky Mummery a...
I made contact with Dr Segun Olunsanya via Twitter to discuss some of the issues around the fluid management of the sick patient. He in turn persuaded a couple of others involved in ITU. This has led to this fascinating...
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO is one of those treatments we sometimes need to think about with our very sick patients. I recently had to make a referral to my local centre and doing so made me wonder what it...
Claire is a staff nurse at the Heart of England NHS Trust and is very passionate about her job. She has only been qualified for about 6 months at the time of the interview, but her passion for nursing is...
Episode number three features a discussion with Robin a colleague and friend in the trust I work in. We discuss the varied elements to his job which include training, keeping up with current practice and audit. Team management at the...
Selecting the intervention in Intubated patients: Evidence, Guidelines and Clinical Application This is a chat with Rachael Moses (@rachaelmoses) who is a consultant respiratory physiotherapist. I noticed from a twitter post that she had been at a meeting and presented...
Simon Cooper is an Associate Professor at Monash University in Australia and developed the First2Act website which looks at the management of the deteriorating patient using multi media teaching tools. The website is a free resource and will prove very...
Jonny Wilkinson (@wilkinsonjonny) and Dave Lyness (@Gas_Craic) were not at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art in person but both followed very closely via social media. Jonny has summarised a lot of the key points on his website...
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NOT The Two Ronnies…but The Two Jonnys….and Twitter! This is the second episode of an exciting new podcast project with Jonny Wilkinson (@WilkinsonJonny) who is an anaesthetist and Intensive Care Consultant at Northampton hospital He has a website, Critical Care Northampton,...
Desarmenien. The chronic critical illness: a new disease in intensive care. Swiss Med Wkly 2016;146:w14336 This paper is one from the Swiss Medical Weekly 2016 and is a description of the efforts to develop what they call a multi modal...
This is a very interesting chat I had with Dr Bronwen Connolly who is a Consultant Clinical research Physiotherapist and an NIHR post-doctoral research fellow about early mobilisation in the critical care. She was asked to present at the ICS SOA...
In this podcast episode, Gavin Denton and I look at three recent papers, breaking them down to try to help us and you understand some of their conclusions and how they reached them. Our notes can be found below. Dynamic...
A prospective randomised trial comparing insertion success rate and incidence of catheterisation-related complications for subclavian venous catheterisation using a thin-walled introducer needle or a catheter-over-needle technique Kim, B. G. Kim, Y. J. Lim, Y. T. Jeon, J. W. Hwang, H....
Another look at some of the recent Papers of the Month to catch our eyes. This time Gavin (@DentonGavin) and I look at two papers, one focussing on the use of Ultrasound with central lines and the other a study in...
This is a discussion I had with Cath and Rachael, both senior physios about the European Respiratory Society 2018. We also talk about how they finance some of the conferences they attend. Food for thought. Interview Questions for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners...
NOT The Two Ronnies…but The Two Jonnys….and Twitter! This is the third episode of an exciting new podcast project with Jonny Wilkinson (@WilkinsonJonny) who is an anaesthetist and Intensive Care Consultant at Northampton hospital He has a website, Critical Care Northampton,...
NOT The Two Ronnies…but The Two Jonnys….and Twitter! This is an exciting new podcast project with Jonny Wilkinson (@WilkinsonJonny) who is an anaesthetist and Intensive Care Consultant at Northampton hospital He has a website, Critical Care Northampton, from where he does...
Hyponatremia: Continuing with our mini-series on electrolyte disturbances, today we talk with Aaron Cook about hyponatremia in the ICU. Aaron is a clinical pharmacist at the University of Kentucky specializing in Neurocritical Care. We discuss some of the causes and...
I was lucky to be asked to give a presentation about the role and the training of the Advanced Critical Care Practitioner at the 14th Critical Care Symposium in Manchester this year. This is the audio from that meeting as a...
Cricoid pressure is the application of backwards pressure on the cricoid cartilage to occlude the oesophagus. Originally described by Sellick in 1961, he described how pressure applied at the level of the 5th cervical vertebrae obstructed the lumen of the...
This is a discussion with Garry Swann. 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...
This is an episode I recorded with Professor Stephen Brett, outgoing President of the Intensive Care Society at the State of the Art meeting 2016 about the merits of the ICU Follow Up Clinics. During the conference, he had had...