A description of some of the presentations I attended on the first day of this year's ESICM conference in Berlin.

Here are links to some of the material discussed in this Podcast:

• For the WHO Malaria Guidelines, look here

• For an article on paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity, go here

• For more about VAP, there's this, and for prevention, look here.

• Here is the JAMA paper on hydrocortisone in multi-trauma patients

• For review on NAVA look here.

• Here is the key Subarachnoid Haemorrhage paper: Critical Care Management of Patients Following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Recommendations from the Neurocritical Care Society’s Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference