Crit-IQ

With a decade of research behind him, Dr Jeremy Cohen, MCRP, FRCA, FCICM discusses the pitfalls of cortisol measurements in ICU and how this relates to treatment of septic shock.

Managing acute pain in ICU can be a challenging task. This insightful podcast with Dr Myles Conroy, head of the Acute Pain Service at Geelong Hospital in Victoria, Australia, sheds new light on this fundamental topic.

Years of experience with military and health care simulation has taught Professor Marcus Watson the importance of debriefing. In this instructive podcast, Marcus reviews why it is so important, and how to weave it into clinical practice.

Dr Daryl Jones joins the podcast to discuss the medical emergency team. An established, though controversial feature of the hospital landscape, evidence of its efficacy remains elusive.

The 2009 pandemic influenza outbreak was the worst in living memory. For a time, the impact of the virus threatened to completely overwhelm ICU resources around the world. Dr Brent Richards, Chair of the Queensland Intensive Care Network, describes how a co-ordinated and proactive response helped manage the disaster.

Michael Corkeron, FCICM, FANZCA talks about working in a regional Australian ICU, combining two specialties in practice, his time in the defence forces, and a love of windsurfing.

The consequences of lying sedated in bed are increasingly apparent. Sue Berney, senior ICU physiotherapist at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne Australia, talks about early mobilisation and rehabilitation, and how their work is changing longterm lifestyle outcomes for the critically ill.

Is Alice Springs ICU the most remote intensive care unit in the world? Perhaps not quite, but with 1500km to the next ICU, Dr Penny Stewart and her colleagues have to deal with anything and everything.

Charlie Corke has been a leader in teaching clinicians how to improve the care of patients dying in the ICU. In this interview he reviews the reasons patients, families and doctors have trouble with this crucial topic, and how we can start to assist them.

Dr Michael Reade is an Intensivist researcher in Melbourne, Australia. Well known for his work in sepsis, outcome studies and end of life care, Michael's current area of interest is Sedation and Delirium management in ICU. In this podcast he speaks about the new paradigm of sedation for the critically ill, and the management of delirium.